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TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF AHEER. 
ceptions. Seloufeeat and Tintaghoda have annual 
crops of grain produced by irrigation. 
I have obtained a list, such as it is, of the tovvns 
and villao'es surroundins: Tintalous. Seloufeeat and 
Tintaghoda are not mentioned, as they lay in our 
route to this place. My informant declined to give 
any account of the numbers of the population, in all 
cases. 
From Tintalous, as radii, are spread around the 
towns and villages of — Asara, two hours west ; Asa- 
rara, a place near Asoudee ; Ghaloulaf, four hours 
south ; Asoudee, six hours south-south-west ; Tanou- 
samat, two hours west (forty people) ; Aghooou, 
two hours north (country of Escort En-Noor); 
Tauasama, four hours east (one family) ; Aghadez, 
six days south-west; Baghzem, two days south; 
Aghalagh, a few hours further south (fifty people); 
Bindaee, one hour and a-half east (no people) ; 
Teelaou, four hours east ; Tegheda, a walk for 
shepherds, three hours west ; Asoudaraka, live 
hours south (forty or fifty) ; Terken, seven hours 
west (not known) ; Timeea, four hours Avest (fifty, 
and many dates) ; Doumous, one day west; Aghar- 
ghar, two days v/est; Oudaras, two days south-south- 
west (place for shepherds) ; Abasas, two days south 
(a place for shepherds) ; Tabernee (a well), two days 
* He may have refused from superstitious motives. Muslims are 
peculiarly sensitive on this subject. In Egypt, Mohammed Ali en- 
countered considerable passive resistance in his endeavours to procure 
a census. — Ed. 
