TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA, Tj I 
they know them, and are obedient to their voice, 
and will admit no stranger to mount them. 
Of the Mongearts, — The most considerable 
tribes that inhabit the Sahara are the Mongearts, 
the Trasars or Trargeas, and the Bracnarts. The 
Mongearts, on the north t border, upon the territo- 
ries of the Monselemines, and occupy that extent 
of coast which reaches from Cape Bojador to Cape 
Blanco. Though shepherds like the Monselemines, 
they are not so warlike, nor so much versed in 
arms, as they procure their subsistence with much 
greater difficulty, while their mutual jealousies^ 
and the barrenness of the country, prevent them 
from forming a general confederacy. The Tra- 
sars and Bracnarts, who inhabit more fertile tracks 
on the northern banks of the Niger, are more 
closely united as communities, and consequently 
more formidable to their neighbours. The infor- 
mation of M. Saugnier is corroborated by Mr 
Park, who, during his residence in Ludamar, was 
told that the Moorish tribes of Trasart and II- Bra- 
ken were more powerful than those of Gedumah, 
Jafnoo, and Ludamar. These tribes only differ 
from the Mongearts in some trivial customs which 
they have derived from their intercourse with the 
negroes. That part of the desert which the Mon- 
gearts inhabit is parched and uncultivated. The 
flying sand, comminuted into the smallest particles, 
drifts with every gale, and rises, at times, into high 
