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TUARICK TRIBES. 
and consider themselves a race of marabouts. 
They certainly make long* prayers, and several of 
them can write a little. The Turks treat the Tanel- 
kums with great consideration, and every year the 
Pasha of Mourzuk gives their Sheikh a fine burnouse 
and other presents. They pay no impost, though 
living in the Fezzan valleys. They are devoted to 
peaceful pursuits, and are camel-drivers and small 
merchants. Formerly they were powerful, and gave 
a sultan to the town of Ghat. About a century 
ago, their Sheikhs and the greater part of the Tanel- 
kums were destroyed by a razzia of the Tibboos. 
They had then a town, which was situate in the 
Wady Esaiyen, where there are still ruins to be seen, 
and which we passed near Berkat. 
Of the Oulimad I know but little, except that 
they are exceedingly turbulent, even ferocious, in 
the neighbourhood of Timbuctoo. They also extend 
their razzias from Timbuctoo to the south-western 
frontiers of the Asbenouee territories. A very 
short time ago they made a foray on the Soudan 
route, between this and Damerghou. The Ghat 
Tuaricks I have pretty well described. 
The tribe of Janet has been mentioned frequently 
in this journal, from the circumstance of their 
attempting to get up a razzia against the expedition. 
The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for 
their freebooting propensities. They lie between the 
Oulimad and the Azgher tribes surrounding Tuat, 
and are some of them engaged in commerce. 
