Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake ChadBarth, Heinrich
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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad
Barth, Heinrich
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Africa, North -- Description and travel
I was assured by Hatíta that there were not less than thirty subdivisions
of the larger clans, called “faya,” in Temáshight; but I could only
ascertain the names of four of them; viz. the Izóban and the Okéren,
living in the Wady Irárarén, and probably belonging to one and the same
family (I believe the Ímanang); the Degárrab, probably a section of the
Hadánarang, living in a place called Tárat, together with some Imghád;
and finally the Ihiyáwen or Ihéwan, a portion of whom dwell in Titarsén,
while another section has settled near Tasáwa in Fezzán, forming the
last link of the chain which connects the Imghád and the Azkár. Another
link is formed by the Makéresang, who, like the former, submit to the
authority of the chief Nakhnúkhen; then follows the Ifélelen, who
are settled in Tasíl with the Imghád. The least degenerate of these
half-caste tribes, who hold a middle place between the Imóshagh and the
Imghád, or between the free and the servile, is said to be the section
of the Mateghílelen, now settled in the Wady el Gharbi, in Fezzán, while
their kindred certainly belong to the Imghád. This is the best proof that
the name Ámghi does not express national descent, but social condition.
Another section or tribe loosely connected with the Azkár, but not
regarded as noble, although as strict ascetics they are much respected,
and are enabled to carry on almost undisturbed the commerce between
Fezzán and Negroland, are the Tinýlkum, of whom I have already had
occasion to speak repeatedly. At present they are settled partly in the
valley Tigger-odé, where their chief the Háj ʿAli resides, partly in Wady
el Gharbi and around Tasáwa; but their ancient seats were to the south
of Ghát, and even in the town of Ghát itself, they having been called in
to decide the quarrel between the former inhabitants of that place, the
Kél-tellek and the Makamúmmasen.
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