wada'n.— 
sjunghi't. — a'tak. 
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sorts, of better quality than those of Tishit, and the names of 
which are as follow : — Sekani, Tennasidi, El Hommor, Tigi- 
birt, Oweterdel, Bezal el Bagra. 
The town, composed of houses built of stone and mud, lies 
on the east side of the valley, on stony and elevated ground, 
Its population does certainly not exceed 5000, who supply 
themselves with necessaries from Tishit, as they do not seem 
to frequent in person the market of Nyamina, or other places. 
ShingMt, a small place built of stone, the same size as the 
town of Dal in Baghena, two days S.W. from Wadan*, 
which has obtained a great name in the East, all the Arabs 
of the western desert being called after it. Shingliit, situated 
in the midst of small sandhills, where a little salt is found, has 
a handsome plantation of date-trees, where the tiggedirt and 
the sukkan are produced. It seems to have no Negro po- 
pulation, all the inhabitants being Arabs belonging to the fol- 
lowing tribes : — 
Welad Jahe ben 'Othman, divided into the following sec- 
tions : — 
Welad 'Othman, to whom belongs the despotic chief 
of the town called A'hmed ben Sidi A^hmed ben 
'Othman. 
El AVesiat, who speak the dialect of the Zenagha, and 
have a chief of their own. 
E' Kedan. 
Welad Bu Lahie, 
Welad E'gshar. 
Idaw 'All. 
A'tar, a well inhabited little town or ksar, said by some to 
be larger than Shinghit, situated two days nearly E. from the 
* The position of these places, as laid down in my original map, 
had to be changed a little from my own data given in the itine- 
raries, and from the data of M. Panel's route to Shinghit, pubhshed 
in the " Revue 'Coloniale," 1851. 
