[282]“The Gate of the Head of the Desert.”
[283]Ptolemy (Marinus of Tyre), I. 8, sec. 4 seq.
[284]Pliny, Nat. Hist., V. 5.
[285]Tabudium and Thuben are both mentioned, either of which might be the well of Tabonie on the Mizda Murzuk road.
[286]In the Fezzan: there are several places of this name elsewhere.
[287]Ptolemy, loc. cit.
[288]Herodotus, IV. 183.
[289]Narrative of Ibn Abd el Hakim in Slane’s translation of Ibn Khaldun, op. cit., Appendix I to Book I.
[290]I think this name has nothing to do with Hawara but is derived from Kawar (see below).
[291]El Bekri, ed. Slane, 1859, p. 34. Cf. Jawan, جاوان or, حاوار = Hawar, or خاوار = Khawar? Kawar.