Welád ʿOthmán, to whom belongs the despotic chief of the town called
Áhmed ben Sídi Áhmed ben ʿOthmán.
El Áwesiát, who speak the dialect of the Zenágha, and have a chief of
their own.
E’ Redán.
Welád Bú Láhie.
Welád Égshar.
Idáw ʿAlí.
_Átar_, a well inhabited little town or ksar, said by some to be larger
than Shinghít, situated two days nearly E. from the latter place, the
track descending along the district called El Ós, where date trees and
water are met with in several spots. Átar lies at the foot of a kódia,
where the water collects, feeding a small plantation of date trees. No
negroes.
_Ojúft_, a ksar not so well inhabited as the two foregoing ones, two
days S.E. from Shinghít, and one from Átar S.S.W., likewise with a palm
grove. Its principal inhabitants are E’ Smésid or Smásida, Zwaye. The
inhabitants of Ojúft, with the exception of the Smásida, do not travel,
but receive every thing by way of Kasr el Barka, where the people carry
on some trade.
Besides the Arab tribes mentioned as living partially in the ksúr, there
are still the following tribes to be mentioned as having their
encampments principally or exclusively in Áderér.
The Tájakánt are regarded as belonging to the Himyáritic stock, and wear
the gubba; they are a large tribe, and are of great importance in the
whole commerce between the W. part of Morocco, or “E’ Sáhel,” and
Timbúktu, which is entirely in their hands. At present, in consequence
of their feud with the Érgebát, they are embroiled in a civil war among
themselves, while with the Kunta they are at peace. I mention them here
with regard to Áderér, though, as far as they are settled in this
district, they have been greatly weakened, and part of them at least
seem to have their principal abode in Gídi; they wander also in El
Giblah. With Tagánet, with which place their name has been connected,
they have nothing whatever to do. Tájakánt is the collective form, a
single individual being called Jakáni, fem. Jakaníye. Their chief is the
Merábet Mohammed el Mukhtár, an excellent man. They are divided into the
following sections:—