4th. Úm e’ dér, a hasi or well belonging to the district Agán.[77]

5th. El ʿAíní, a hasi or well.

6th. Titárikt or Ásabay, a well about thirty-five fathoms in depth, and

the most eastern of “El Ábiár,” or the deep wells, which have given

their name to the whole district called “El Ábiár.”

Besides the wells here mentioned, the most famous wells of “El Ábiár”

are the following, all lying west of Aftót:—Ár-éddeke, Bú-Telehíye,

Rézelán, Bír el Barka, Dukhn, Bú-Tweríge, Yáre, Bú-Tumbúski. Further to

the north-west from Aftót, and at the distance of about two days north

from Bú-Tweríge, is a famous well called Bú-télimít, but not to be

confounded with the well of the same name mentioned hereafter. In the

district of Aftót there are only shallow wells.

7th. El Wastha, a deep well, dug in stony ground.

8th. Twersát, a group of shallow wells.

9th. A well, being the property of a man called E’ Sheikh el Kádhi, with

an encampment of the Ijéjebó.

10th. Tin-dámmer Abél, a well.

11th. Bú-télimít, a large well or hasi near the camping grounds of the

Brákena, much frequented. From here Bot-hadíye is said to be only one

day and a half distant. If that is the case, the latter must be

identical with some place in the “Ile de Morfil.”

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