er the Sheikh. More information is required on
this point.

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_Route from Tuat to Wadnoun._

From Tuat, or from Ain-Salah, in Tuat, westward, to

Timmemoun, a small oasis of Tuat, two days; date-palms, &c.

Ourara (Urara), five days; an oasis of Tuat larger than Timmemoun.
Between Timmemoun, and Ourara, date-palms and wells in abundance.

Taffilelt, five days. Between Ourara and Taffilelt there are a number of
small villages.

Dra, nine days. From Tuat to Dra, passing through Taffilelt, the route
is lined with forests of palms, and water everywhere abounds. Dra
consists of some one hundred towns and villages.

Weled Omer Ben Melouk, a tribe of Arabs, numbering some five thousand
souls, and having maharees and horses. The whole tribe are notorious
bandits. From Dra to the tents of this tribe there are some seven days'
journey.

Barraber, twenty days, consisting entirely of plains, with here and
there wells. This is another tribe of Arabs, wandering in tents, and all
bandits. They chiefly mount horses; they have, however, camels and
flocks; the tribe consists of about two thousands souls.

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. Besides the above route from Tuat to Wadnoun, I am
indebted to him for the Niffee route. Six years ago he was at Niffee,
and saw there a large American vessel trading for s