546 
APPENDIX II. 
Besides the ' Aarlb, the district of El Haha is inhabited by 
the Limtuna, especially the Idau-rdderen, and, according 
to some informants, the Berber element seems to predomi- 
nate entirely. 
El Haha appears to be limited towards the east by Gidi or 
Igidi, a girdle of high sandhills, about one and a half to two 
days in breadth, and rich in palm-trees, yielding a good sort 
of date, called '^jehe." Gidi, at the distance of twenty days 
east from the principal encampment in Sakiet El Hamra, 
stretches W.S.W. in the direction of Tishit, from which place 
its south western end is separated by a naked desert or 
meraye " of about ten days. Gidi has no regular inhabi- 
tants, the Tajak^nt, the Welad Molad, and especially the 
Kunta, visiting it annually and staying some time in order to 
gather the dates.* 
To the S.E. of Igidi is the district E'rgsliesh, separated 
from it by the smaller districts called Aftot and El Kart, 
the former one being a narrow girdle only half a day broad, 
and consisting of white and black soil, while El Kart, ad- 
joining Aftot towards the west, is about one day's journey 
in breadth, and exhibits an even surface covered with pebbles 
and much herbage. E^rgshesh is a long and narrow girdle of 
sandhills, which stretches out in the direction from Tawat to 
Waran, and passing at no great distance to the west of 
Taodenni, joins Magh-ter, or rather Waran, at the S.W. 
end. This district, which is similar in its nature to Gidi, and 
not destitute of w^ater between the high sandhills, although not 
adorned by nature with the equally graceful and useful palm- 
tree, is only from twenty to thirty miles broad, and is bordered 
towards the north by the smaller district called El Hank, con- 
sisting of black vegetable soil, rich in trees, and intersected by 
rocky hills or kodia. There is in this district a famous spot 
called Lemezarrab, with a large group of palm-trees, the fruit 
* At the time when I finished my original map which 1 sent 
home from Timbuktu, I had not collected these materials. 
