El Útetád.
El Idó-Gejá.
As for the Rayán in Wadán, they are the khóddemán of the Idáw el Háj.
The Medrámberín, one of the tribes of the Kunta.
Wadán has a pretty plantation of date-trees of different sorts, of
better quality than those of Tishít, and the names of which are as
follow:—Sekáni, Tennasídi, El Hommor, Tigíbirt, Owetérdel, Bézal el
Bagra.
The town, composed of houses built of stone and mud, lies on the east
side of the valley, on stony and elevated ground. Its population does
certainly not exceed 5000, who supply themselves with necessaries from
Tishít, as they do not seem to frequent in person the market of Nyámina,
or other places.
_Shinghít_, a small place built of stone, the same size as the town of
Dál in Bághena, two days S.W. from Wadán[79], which has obtained a great
name in the East, all the Arabs of the western desert being called after
it. Shinghít, situated in the midst of small sandhills, where a little
salt is found, has a handsome plantation of date-trees, where the
tíggedirt and the sukkán are produced. It seems to have no Negro
population, all the inhabitants being Arabs belonging to the following
tribes:—