People of the veil : $b being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the central SaharaRennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd, Baron
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People of the veil : $b being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the central Sahara
Rennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd, Baron
Aïr (Niger); Tuaregs
XII. THE HISTORY OF AIR. PART I. THE MIGRATIONS OF THE
TUAREG TO AIR 360
XIII. THE HISTORY OF AIR. PART II. THE VICISSITUDES OF THE
TUAREG IN AIR 401
XIV. VALEDICTORY 417
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APPENDIX PAGE
I. A LIST OF THE ASTRONOMICALLY DETERMINED POINTS IN AIR 422
II. THE TRIBAL ORGANISATION OF THE TUAREG OF AIR 426
III. ELAKKOS AND TERMIT 442
IV. IBN BATUTAH’S JOURNEY 452
V. ON THE ROOT “MZGH” IN VARIOUS LIBYAN NAMES 457
VI. THE KINGS OF THE TUAREG OF AIR 463
VII. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL USED IN THIS BOOK 466
INDEX 469
PLATES
PLATE _Facing page_
1. AGELLAL VILLAGE AND MOUNTAINS _Frontispiece_
2. ELATTU 14
3. DESERT AND HILLS FROM TERMIT PEAK 32
4. DIOM IN ELAKKOS 42
PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW 42
5. GAMRAM 49
6. RIVER OF AGADES: CLIFFS AT AKARAQ 76
SHRINE AT AKARAQ 76
7. RIVER OF AGADES LOOKING SOUTH FROM TEBEHIC IN THE
EGHALGAWEN MASSIF 79
EGHALGAWEN MASSIF FROM AZAWAGH 79
8. TIN WANA POOL 83
ROCK OF THE TWO SLAVES, AT THE JUNCTION OF THE TIN WANA
AND EGHALGAWEN VALLEYS 83
9. AGADES 86
10. GATHERING AT SIDI HAMADA 95
PRAYERS AT SIDI HAMADA 95
11. PRAYERS AT SIDI HAMADA 97
12. OMAR: AMENOKAL OF AIR 108
13. AUDERAS VALLEY LOOKING WEST 120
AUDERAS VALLEY: AERWAN TIDRAK 120
14. MT. TODRA FROM AUDERAS 126
15. GRAIN POTS, IFERUAN 133
GARDEN WELLS 133
16. AUDERAS: HUTS 154
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