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APPENDIX. 
Tajakant, ten days ; plains, with the mountains 
of Sous on the north. A tribe of pacific Arabs (i. e. 
not bandits), numbering about three thousand, 
having both horses and camels. 
Shurfa, or Weled Seba, three days ; a tribe of 
Arabs, all Shereefs, numbering some four or five 
thousand, having many horses and camels, and 
flocks, and a few bullocks. Not bandits. 
Sakia Hamara, two days ; a large walled town, 
situated in a wady under a mountain : Shereefs and 
Marabouteen. 
Wad-Noun, three days. 
Ain-Salah. 
South, from this point of departure we come to 
the 
Walad Bahammu, at a distance of one day ; an 
oasis of two villages; all Tuatee bandits, riding 
maharees, wearing turkadees, like Tuaricks. One 
of these villages is called Akobli, known in the 
route to Timbuctoo. 
North, from Ain Salah are mentioned the 
Shellah, a tribe living in tents, speaking a 
Berber dialect ; two days. My informant knows no 
more. 
East, from this point there is only desert 
towards Ghadamez. 
"West, from the same, Timmemoun and Ourara. 
The person who gave me this information is one 
Haj Mohammed Ben Welid, a native of Ghadamez. 
