MOORISH TRIBES OF EL GIBLAH. 
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Welad Musanni in two divisions, whose names I did not 
learn. 
El U^jarat. 
A'hel e' sherk. 
Draw a. 
The three latter tribes form at present one faction of 
the Tajakant, the two preceding, together with the 
Merabet, the other. Altogether they are certainly 
able to bring into the field 2000 muskets, but they 
do not appear to be strong in cavalry. 
The Sidi Mohammed, another division of the Kunta. 
In general the Kunta and theWelad e' Nasir form one group 
in opposition to the Tajakant, Idavv el Haj, and the Zenagha. 
y. MOOKISH TRIBES IN EL GIBLAH AND IN SHEMMAMAH. 
The whole tract of the desert between A'derer and the 
sea, in a wide sense, is called Tiris, but in a proper and re- 
stricted one, this name is applied only to the northern part 
of it, the middle tract of it being called " Magh-ter," and 
the southern one El Giblah ; " but care must be taken not to 
confound this district with what the Arabs of A^zawad and 
Timbuktu call El Giblah," with which very vague name, 
signifying in their dialect " the west," they indicate all that 
part of the desert W. of them from Walata as far as the sea. 
El Giblah is bordered towards the N. by Magh-ter, towards 
the E, by A^derer, towards the S.E. by El Abiar, and to- 
wards the S. by the Senegal ; this more favoured southern 
tract, however, bearing the particular name of Shemmamah, 
is covered with thick forests of the gum tree while another 
portion of it, consisting of ranges of sandhills, is called Igidi 
or E' Swehel. El Giblah, as well as all Tiris, has no per- 
manent wells, being extremely dry and sterile, but in the 
rainy season water is found just under the surface. A few 
of the most remarkable expressions of the idiom of the Arabs 
of the Giblah are: — sengetti, dukno ; ^^J^j^fy^g^ | kohemmi ; 
