I explained that our guide was then employed in trying to save his beast. He in turn told us how it had stumbled, and fallen into the current, and he himself, in trying to save it, had been knocked over. His forehead had struck a rock. He had cried out. After that he remembered nothing more.
"What is your name?" I asked.
"Eg-Anteouen."
"What tribe do you belong to?"
"The tribe of Kel-Tahat."
"The Kel-Tahats are the serfs of the tribe of Kel-Rhelâ, the great nobles of Hoggar?"
"Yes," he answered, casting a side glance in my direction. It seemed that such precise questions on the affairs of Ahygar were not to his liking.
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The Kel-Tahats, if I am not mistaken, are established on the southwest flank of Atakor.[[5]] What were you doing, so far from your home territory when we saved your life?"
"I was going, by way of Tit, to In-Salah," he said.