The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia

Postscript

The information adjoined regarding the number of souls included in each of the Berber tribes, and of their domestic animals, came to hand only after the first portion of my book had gone to press. I therefore add it here. This information has been collected with great pains throughout the Government of El Arad by the kindly help of M. Destailleur, Contrôleur Civil to that Government. It is positively reliable, the calculations which I was able to make in person during my stay in several of the villages, with the same view, corresponding exactly to those in the table. Only—as an outsider—I must aver that the number of horses may not be quite correct, but for some places appears computed too low. As for instance in Hadeij, where, it is said, none are to be found, which was certainly not the case. Possibly the explanation may be that the sheikhs feared that the inquiry made by the Government arose from a desire to know how many mounted men this tribe could place in the field in time of war.

Names of Tribes and Villages.					Number of Inhabitants.	Asses.	Oxen.	Horses.	Camels.	Sheep and Goats.	Mules
		Jara			1925	500	40	100	40	700	40
		Menzel			2200	600	60	35	40	410	90
		Shenini			1040	300	2	25	30	185	30
		Ghenush			350	100	4	3	8	200	40
		Bu Shma			50	20			10	30
		Udref			750	280	70	8	120	450	2
		Metuia			1800	200	20	10	100	600	60
		Tebulbu			235	45	25	4	38	350	1
		Zarat			165	45	55	3	12	1000
		Ghraïra			450	100		8	390	1450
		Alaia			232	30			20	351
		Hazem			1229	210	4	36	240	2880
		Hamernas			2100	600	57	37	300	2100	1
Beni-Zider, South of the Shott.	⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩	Gassur			900	140	70	20	50	350	10
		Debdaba			1390	115	22	40	92	520	19
		El Begla			1455	432		41	535	1830
		Shelahsha			1689	400		95	1400	10,000	4
		Matmata			1000	120	8	20	400	1800
		Shehel			1100	150		25	1200	2500
		El Heurja			1000	140		30	420	2000
		Zauia			868	320		35	800	8000	4
Matmata Mountains.	⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩	Tujud			210	15	30	2	55	520
		Zarua			604	55	27	1	207	713	2
		Dehibat			100	20	3	2	50	1000
		Ben Aissa			340	25	25	3	65	311
		Guelaa Ben Aissa			495	40	45	3	115	410
		Smerten			105	10		1	25	265
		Beni Sultan			632	43	73	1	55	200	2
		Tujan			1071	51	80	3	169	1000	1
		Uled-Sliman-Hadeij			1300	200	200		300	2700	8
		Lasheish			1020	120	223	6	263	2036	2
		Tamezred			1082	50	100	7	400	4600	4
Urghamma.	⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩	Neffat			3830	826	46	221	3371	9926	3
		Accara			5496	750	250	110	1335	6060
		Tuasin			2461	1203	15	600	6945	15,263
		Khezur			3411	890	150	142	1353	9745
		Ghomrasen			1376	565	3	43	684	2848
		Shenini-Duirat			410	80	20	3	300	1960	1
		Guermasa			460	80	30	8	170	1150
		Uderma.	⎧ ⎨ ⎩	Hamidia	287	60		25	255	890
				Uled-Debab	389	150		20	200	2000
				Deghagha	585	250	10	34	300	300
		Uled Shada			330	125		42	320	1200
		Suabria-Duirat			153	7	2	2	32	800
		Beni Barka			125	25	7	2	60	240
		Zedra			117	25	12	1	14	360
		Gatufa			130	30	15	4	11	400
		Jelidat	⎧ ⎨ ⎩	Uled-Lazareg
				Uled-Aun	302	100	4	50	300	1100
				Uled-Ashiri
		Quadid			125	30	4	4	80	600
		Duiri			1357	63	54	10	280	3400

Notes

1More accurately the coffee-house of the dome.—Translator’s Note.

2The Arabs in this country keep no account of their age. The most they can remember is that they were born the year this or that happened.

3Chest.

4Correspondence in the Paris newspaper, the Journal des Debats of 5th September 1893.

5M. Rouvier is newly appointed to Stockholm as French Representative.

6Anthropologie Criminelle des Tunisiens Musulmans; Les formes de la famille chez les premiers habitants de l’Afrique du Nord; Exploration anthropologique de la Khroumirie.

7Duveyrier, Les Touareg du Nord; Captain Bissuel, Les Touareg de l’Ouest; Largeau, Le Sahara Algerien.

8From Dr. E. F. Bojesen’s Handbook on Greek Antiquities.