TRIBES OF EL-HARIB. 
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any thing but cafirs or infidels. In my life I never saw 
women so evil disposed and so dirty as those of this 
country : they do not veil themselves, like the women of 
Morocco, but expose a face disgustingly filthy ; the 
smell that proceeds from them is most offensive. The in- 
habitants eat the camels which have died from fatigue, but 
not till they have drained off the blood ; they keep some 
sheep and a few horses. El-Harib contains eleven tribes, 
the names of which, as I received them from an old inha- 
bitant of the camp, to which I belonged, are as follows : 
Oulad-Rossik, Oulad-Webal, Oulad-Gouessim, Oulad-Foulh, 
Oulad-Ouraff, Oulad-Rouzinn, Oulad-Rahan, Oulad-Nasso, 
Oulad-Body, Oulad-Bonlaboi, Oulad-Sidi-Ayesha. One 
day's journey west from our camp are situated the first tents 
of the Trajacants; at the distance of four in the same 
direction are the tribes of Oulad-Noun, who dwell near 
the village of Adrar, which must not be confounded with 
the country of el-Drah, a small district extending from 
east to west, and from north to south, between Morocco and 
el-Harib; five days' journey west from the encampment 
of Sidi' Aly is the village of Sous ; at fourteen days in the 
same direction that of Soueyrah ; and at ten or eleven days 
from el-Harib, to the N. N. W. is Morocco, the capital of 
the empire of that name, which these rovers sometimes visit. 
While the men of el-Harib are travelling in the Sou- 
dan, the women employ themselves in making ropes of 
grass, to fasten the baggage and to draw water from the 
wells in the deserts ; they spin camel's hair with which 
they make tent-covers ; they prepare and tan leather, and 
make sandals for their husbands, and the remainder of 
their time is devoted to their domestic concerns. As in 
all other Mahometan countries, they eat apart from the 
men. 
Sidi- Aly had frequently teased me to part with my 
two pieces of blue cotton cloth from the Soudan, that I 
