beer-mukni

Updated: May 29, 2025

Wells are also named by the digger of them. A man who goes to the expense of digging out a well, if peradventure he finds water, has the privilege of giving to it his own name. There is one on the route from Mourzuk to Tripoli called Mukni or Beer-Mukni, from the great merchant who dug the well.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846