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is as much enchanted as a European is with the most roman- 
tic s})ots of Switzerland and Italy, is indicated by the dis- 
tance of three days between the well Talemist and the 
famous well Bu-Sefiye, on the road from Tishit to Wadan. 
AMerer, according to the different nature of its various 
parts, is divided into A'derer e' temar," and " Aderer suttuf." 
In A'derer Proper there are four ksur, or towns, the' most 
considerable of which, and the only one known in Europe, is 
Wadan, a town smaller than Tishit, but at least, till recently, 
when it has likewise suffered from intestine broils, better in- 
habited than the latter, and was evidently so, even in the 
first half of the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese esta- 
blished here a factory for a couple of years. Wadan, as well 
as Tishit, was originally a place of the Azer, and the Azeriye 
is still the language of its indigenous inhabitants. It has 
besides, a considerable Arab population belonging to the fol- 
lowing tribes : — 
El Arzazir. 
Idaw el Haj, probably the founders of the empire of 
Ghanata, a tribe of great importance in the history of 
African civilization, and divided into the following sec- 
tions, as far as they live in A'derer: — 
A'hel Sidi Makhmud, the Soltana tribe, to whom be- 
longs the chief of Wadan, 'Abd Allah W. Sidi 
Makhmiid. 
Ide Yakob. 
Siyam. 
A'hel el Imam. 
While two other sections of them live in Ergebe, viz. : — 
El metad. 
El Ido-Gejl 
As for the Ray an in Wadan, they are the khoddeman of 
the Idaw el Haj. 
The Medramberm, one of the tribes of the Kunta. 
Wadan has a pretty plantation of date-trees of different 
