KAILOUEE MANNERS — MAHAREES. 
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As might have been expected, the Kailouees — 
princes and people — are not very refined in their 
ideas or luxurious in their habits. Their food con- 
sists principally of the grains ghaseb and ghafouley, 
or guinea-corn. They have also flocks and herds 
of sheep, camels, and bullocks ; but the bullocks 
are used chiefly for draft, and to carry goods from 
Aheer to Soudan. Asses are exceedingly numerous, 
and likewise go to Soudan to fetch guinea-corn. 
The population of Aheer, being scattered about in 
small towns and villages, a few hours' journey apart, 
these animals are found very useful for the trans- 
port of the persons and effects of the poor. The 
richer people have camels of the maharee species, like 
all the Tuaricks ; and in some respects it is the 
possession of this splendid animal which distin- 
guishes the Kailouee population from the people 
to the south. For example, all their sports and 
pastimes would be exactly Soudanese, were it not 
for the introduction of the maharee. On the cele- 
bration of a wedding, the Kailouees ride round the 
groups of guests on their silent-treading camels, 
which measure their movements to the sound of 
a big' rude drum. Such scenes w r ould otherwise be 
perfectly Nigritian. The men dance, flourishing 
their lances ; and the slaves both dance and sing. 
But I have already noted down all that I observed 
remarkable in manners, and need not here repeat 
myself. 
The great natural features of Asben, also, are 
