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doms to the southward, are temptations too strong to be resisted. 
A force is therefore annually sent, not to fight (for the Negroes 
cannot make any resistance against horsemen with fire-arms) but to 
pillage these defenceless people, to carry them off as slaves, burn 
their towns, kill the aged and infants, destroy their crops, and 
inflict on them every possible misery. These inroads have some- 
times been conducted by Mukni in person, and in his absence, by 
some of his principal men ; his son, however, is now thought old 
enough to make his initiatory campaign. In addition to the people 
usually ordered to attend these expeditions, many Bedouins from 
the desert near Sockna and Benioleed join them ; also some of the 
Tibboo of Tibesty and Gatrone, in hopes of obtaining a share in 
the plunder. The wars thus made for the purpose of carrying 
off slaves, or invading enemies countries, are called Ghrazzie. 
There are no permanent or hereditary feuds existing between 
tribes, or even families in Fezzan, as the warlike race of inde- 
pendent Arabs no longer exists. The Tibboo and those Arabs 
who inhabit the southern districts of Fezzan, are distinct from each 
other; and the native people, Uving in towns, cannot have the 
appellation of tribes apphed to them. 
No Barbary or Negro Chief, or indeed any of their people, are 
able to resist a bribe ; much might therefore be done by securing 
the good wiU of the Sultans of the interior kingdoms ; and they 
might, by presents properly appHed, form together such a barrier 
against the inroads of Mukni, as would enable them to secure 
their independence, and prevent the annual seizure of multitudes 
of their subjects. Though amongst themselves slavery might 
(and doubtless would) exist ; yet it would not, with such arrange- 
ments, extend so far as it does at present. The blacks alone, in 
consequence chiefly of Mukni's incursions, are always engaged in 
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