el-agouat

Updated: May 15, 2025

In Southern Algeria, the oasis of El-Agouat, each landed proprietor has the prescriptive right of an hour or two hours of the running of the water, according to the title deeds of the estate. Many other oases have the same system. Some Touaricks remained, who called on me to-day. One, who had shown himself very friendly, began to enlarge on the dangers of the Soudan route.

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