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latter place, the track descending along the district called 
El O's, where date trees and water are met with in several 
spots. A^tar lies at the foot of a kodia, where the water 
collects, feeding a small plantation of date trees. No negroes. 
Ojvft, a ksar not so well inhabited as the two foregoing 
ones, two days S. E. from Shinghit, and one from A^tar 
S.S.W., likewise with a palm grove. Its principal inha- 
bitants are E' Smesid or Smasida, Zwaye. Tlie inhabitants 
of Ojuft, with the exception of the Smasida, do not travel, 
but receive every thing by way of Kasr el Barka, where the 
people carry on some trade. 
Besides the Anib tribes mentioned as living partially in 
the ksur, there are still the following tribes to be mentioned 
as having their encampments principally or exclusively in 
AMerer. 
The Tajakant are regarded as belonging to the Himyaritic 
stock, and wear the gubba ; they are a large tribe, and are 
of great importance in the whole commerce between the W. 
part of Morocco, or *^ E' Sahel," and Timbuktu, which is 
entirely in their hands. At present, in consequence of their 
feud with the E^rgebat, they are embroiled in a civil war 
among themselves, while with the Kunta they are at peace. 
I mention them here with regard to A'derer, though, as far as 
they are settled in this district, they have been greatly 
weakened, and part of them at least seem to have their 
principal abode in Gidi ; they wander also in El Giblah. With 
Taganet, with which place their name has been connected, 
they have nothing whatever to do. Tajakant is the collective 
form, a single individual being called Jakani, fem. Jakaniye. 
Their chief is the Merabet Mohammed el Mukhtar, an excel- 
lent man. They are divi led into the following sections: — 
E' Rumadhm or El Armadhm, subdivided: — 
'Ain el Kohol. 
Welad Sidi el Haj. 
El Msaid. 
Weldd Said. 
