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TRIBES OF AHEER. 
houses of Aheer — namely, the bedstead. Whilst 
most of the inhabitants of Fezzan lie upon skins or 
mats upon the ground, the Kailouees have a nice 
light palm-branch bedstead, which enables them to 
escape the damp of the rainy season, and the attack 
of dangerous insects and reptiles like the scorpion 
and the lefa. 
I shall hereafter make a few observations on the 
tribes inhabiting Aheer. Here I will note that they 
are all called Targhee, that is Tuarick, by the traders 
of the north ; and that the predominant race is the 
Kailouee. To me the latter seems to be a mixture 
of the Berbers, or supposed aborigines of the northern 
coast, with all the tribes and varieties of tribes of the 
interior of Africa. This may account for their 
having less pride and stiffness than the Tuaricks 
of Ghat, who are purer Berbers ; as well as for their 
disposition to thieving and petty larceny, of which I 
have recently been obliged to give some examples. 
The pure Berbers, likewise, are much less sensual 
than their bastard descendants, who seem, indeed, to 
have no idea of pleasure but in its grossest shape. 
The Kailouees are, for the most part, talJ and 
active, little encumbered by bulky bodies ; some 
having both complexion and features nearly Euro- 
pean. At any rate there are many as fair -look- 
ing as the Arabs generally, whilst others are 
quite negro in colour. The women are smaller and 
stouter; some are fattened like the Mooresses of the 
