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TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAP. VIII. 
In Wadey Sliirghi the towns are thus situated, beginning from 
the east. Ashkiddi A-Cil, Ghiddi ^y^i, Gelwas (jw-^li, Erak cJ^y, which is 
two-thirds of a day from Sebha, and ten days from Gharian, is the 
lai-gest of these towns. Zooiat cliI^j, Tamzawa »^^jA>, Gusser 
Sallrim jll^Auj, Aggar^^jl, Maharouga <Gj.^l^, El Gerda ^^a1^, Taroot 
c:j^Jc, Gootta ij^'i, Berghen ^^ij^ (two of that name), Temissan ^^Lu^is, 
Iddri ^j^j, which is a large village, and westernmost in the Wadey 
Shirghi. It is two days from Brak, and eight days from Ghadams. 
Another wadey called El Agaal ^111 runs parallel to the above. 
It is one day from Sebha, and has the following towns in it : El 
Abiad ^boUl, El Hamra Hj^]], Khalifa ^jJsU, Bendoobai'a jUjoj, Zueia 
Ergabi Tenrdimi ^_^U!s, Gusser Saad jotw^, Gusser Sbaida 
;jjojj*uj, Kharaig hj^. This is aU the Wadey Shirghi. 
The Wadey Ghrarbi begins from the east at Iddri Fegaige ^ j^, 
Kertibi Garragarra l^'l^, Tuash Teweewa fyjl?, Germa 
l-^a.., the ancient capital of Fezzan ; Ghraraifi c/ij^-cj Oubari ^/tJty, 
seven days from Ghraat, which is about W.S.W. two long days from 
El Abiad, which is one day from Sebha. Tliis is the Wadey 
Ghrarbi. 
The people in the Wadeys are blacks and mulattoes as in 
Morzouk, and Arabs hve amongst them. The villages contain 
from thirty to two hundred houses ; many, however, are composed 
of palm huts. The people are very poor, but in the time of the 
Waled Suleman, who resided much amongst them, they were 
opulent. In some of the pools of stagnant water in the W adey 
Shaiti are found small worms, of about the size of a grain of rice ; 
these are collected in great quantities, and pounded with a little 
salt in a mortar, until they form a black paste, which is made into 
balls of about the size of the double fist, and then suffered to dry 
in the sun. These worms, which are called Dood, form one of the 
very few luxuries of Fezzan, as the poor people, when they have 
