Tejígja, four days W.N.W. from Tishít, inhabited by the Idáw ʿAlí and
the Ghálli.
Rashíd, one day from Tejígja, W.N.W., in the possession of the Kunta.
Kasr el Barka, the most considerable of the three, two days W.S.W.
from Tejígja, and three days from the mountain-pass Nufni, which gives
access to it by way of Aftót, likewise inhabited by the Kunta, who are
the travelling merchants of this part of the desert, and supply
Shinghít, and all those quarters.
Besides these three ksúr, there is, at the distance of one day from
Tejígja, and three days from Tishít, another plantation of date-trees,
but without a ksar, called El Gobbu, or El Kubba, from the sanctuary of
a Weli of the name of ʿAbd-Allah, and belonging to the Idáw ʿAlí.
As for the Arab tribes not settled in the ksúr, but wandering about in
Tagánet, there are first to mention:—
The Zenágha, or Senhája, or Idáw-ʿAísh, a mixed Berber tribe, who form
a conspicuous group in the history of this part of Africa, and have
been the principal actors also in the destruction of the empire of the
Rumá or Ermá. They are at present divided into several sections, all
called after the sons and grandsons of Mohammed Shén, a fanatic man,
who arose among this tribe a little more than a century ago, and
usurped the chieftainship. His eldest son Mohammed, who succeeded him,
left at his death the office of chief vacant, when there arose a
sanguinary civil war between his brother Mukhtár, whose partisans were
called Sheratít, and his eldest son, Swéd Áhmed, and his party, who
were called Abakák, from the red fruits of the talha, on which they
were obliged to subsist. The latter having at length gained the upper
hand, killed all his uncles, and was succeeded after his death by his
son Bakr, who is ruling at the present time. The chief of the Sheratít
is E’ Rasúl Weled ʿAlí Weled Mohammed Shén.
Hel ʿOmár Weled Mohammed Shén, the Soltana kabíla of the Zenágha,
subdivided as follows:—
Hel ʿAlí Bábá Weled ʿOmár.
Bú-Bakr Weled ʿOmár.
Rasúl Weled ʿOmár.
Hel ʿAlí Weled Mohammed Shén.
Áhel Swéd; this is the strongest of the divisions of the Zenágha.
Áhel Resúl Weled Alimbugga.
Hel Bakr Weled Mohammed Shén.
Áhel Resúl Weled Mohammed Shén.