[145]Aswák, plural of Sók, or Súk, the Arab word for market—bazár in Persian.
[146]Meshwár, Council.
[147]Sídí Ibn ’Abbás, ’Abd el kádir, Abú Sheĭb, Mubàrek.
[148]Aulád Abú Sebá, the tribe of Father Lion.
[149]Tárúdánt, capital of Sús.
[150]May we be allowed to lament the impetuosity of our lamented traveller’s zeal. At Téródánt he would, for a considerable time, have had ample occupation for every leisure moment. In a country known only by name, abounding with vegetables and fossils never yet examined, and in the midst of the Berbers, whose history and habits so few have been able to study, supported also by the favour of the Court, how largely might Mr. Davidson have increased our stores of knowledge, had he been willing to yield to the Sultán’s precautions!
[151]This is doubtless a mistake, unless the Jews call the place Umm-Síwah. The man did not understand the meaning of the name, and therefore said this to screen his ignorance.
[152]This is Aghmát Waríkah of the Arabs, so named from a Berber tribe, to distinguish it from Aghmát Aïlán.—F. S.
[153]Mr. Davidson’s Letter, Journ. of Geogr. Soc., vol. vi. p. 430.
[154]Sahrá is a large level area, a plain, but applied peculiarly to the Great African Desert.