S28 Account of Alexa^jder Scott’s Captivity 
four parts. The northern Till lies about 100 miles south of 
Wadnoon, and has a small river called Ourerah, and a ward or 
valley running through it. The western part is named Sachal, 
is divided from Till by the large wad called Zerrohah^ the one 
being from the other ten or twelve days journey This wad 
is only a part of a much larger district called also Zerrohah, 
which lies to the eastward of Till and Sachal. It is a high, 
but not mountainous land, and sends down a large wad, as 
above mentioned, which reaches to the sea. 
The fourth division El Ghiblah lies to the south, and is di- 
vided from Sachal by the wad Seyghe *|‘. The tribes are in 
general terms distinguished by the name of the district they 
usually occupy, as the Tille-eens, the Sachal-eens, the Ghiblah- 
eens. In each of those divisions, however, there are particular 
tribes scattered, the special names of some of which he recol- 
lects, viz. Mi0atts^ and Zurghiem tribes, which dwell in 
Till, are always at war with the Ulled D’Leims. The El 
Arosiem and Ulled Missehah^ which belong to Zerrohah. 
Those of Tohorlet (into whose hands Scott fell when cast 
away,) of Lemmiheir, Eyeketts, Ulled Tiderary, Ulled Emouk- 
sor, and Ulled Emiara, are all of Sachal, or, as it is sometimes 
called Sachara, and are considered a very peaceable people. 
In El Ghiblah are the tribes of Ulled D’Leim, Ulled Edouo- 
chala, Ulled Teggadow, Ulled Emouss. Scott mentions also 
the Arab tribes of Orghebets and the Scarnas, who belong to 
El Sharrag, near the Bahar El Tieb. These distant tribes he 
has seen, the former often, the latter sometimes, in El Ghiblah 
and in Sachal, having come there on fighting expeditions, or 
for corn. This appeared to him less extraordinary, because his 
own master was once absent for more than twelve months on an 
expedition of some kind ; and the people of El Ghiblah some- 
times go far to the southward, to a place called Llumgaufra 
the chief man of which is called Wildibacaab, and whence the 
* In this account there is some indistinctness, as we have not been able 
to ascertain from what point in Till to what point in Sachal this computation ex- 
tends. 
■f It was on the coast of Sachal that the Montezuma was wrecked. 
$ In spelling this name, the Wdsh double LI has been adopted to give an 
idea of the sound. 
