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the travelling merchants of this part of the desert, 
and supply Shinghit, and all those quarters. 
Besides these three ksur, there is, at the distance of one 
day from Tejigja, and three days from Tishit, another plan- 
tation of date-trees, but without a ksar, called El Gobbu, or 
El Kubba, from the sanctuary of a Weli of the name of 
'Abd- Allah, and belonging to the Idaw *Ali. 
As for the Arab tribes not settled in the kstir, but wander- 
ing about in Taganet, there are first to mention : — 
The Zenagha, or Senhaja, or Idaw-'Aish, a mixed Berber 
tribe, who form a conspicuous group in the history of 
this part of Africa, and have been the principal actors 
also in the destruction of the empire of the Ruma or 
Erma. They are at present divided into several sections, 
all called after the sons and grandsons of Mohammed 
Shen, a fanatic man, who arose among this tribe a little 
more than a century ago, and usurped the chieftainship. 
His eldest son Mohammed, who succeeded him, left at 
his death the office of chief vacant, when there arose a 
sanguinary civil war between his brother Mukhtar, 
whose partisans were called Sheratit, and his eldest son, 
Swed A^hmed, and his party, who were called Abakak, 
from the red fruits of the talha, on which they were 
obliged to subsist. The latter having at length gained 
the upper hand, killed all his uncles, and was succeeded 
after his death by his son Bakr, who is ruling at the 
present time. The chief of the Sheratit is E' Rasul 
Weled 'All Weled Mohammed Shen. 
Hel 'Omar Weled Mohammed Shen, the Soltana kabila 
of the Zenagha, subdivided as follows ; — 
Hel 'AH Baba Weled 'Omar. 
Bu-Bakr Weled 'Omar. 
Rasul Weled 'Omar. 
Hel 'All Weled Mohammed Shen. 
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