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Updated: May 25, 2025
I do not doubt the correctness of this news; it is so perfectly Targhee in its kind: but the report of sixty maharees pursuing us from the Haghar desert was always doubted by me.
On the eastern line of The Desert, they do not extend beyond the western limits of the oases of Fezzan, and the southern Tibboo countries. The names of the great sections of the Touaricks, as far as I have been able to learn, are, 1st. The Azghar ازقار of Ghat. 2nd. The Haghar هقار of Touat. 3rd. The Kylouy كيلوي of Aheer. 4th. The Sorghou سرقو of Timbuctoo.
He declares the warriors to muster 15,000 strong, which would give too numerous a population for the Azgher section of Touaricks. The Haghar, and especially the Kylouy Touaricks, have an infinitely larger population than those of Ghat. The Marabout pretends there are some Touaricks who never saw corn or tasted bread, and others who dress only in skins.
This granite interests us, especially as in the direct Bornou route there appears to be none at all. Dr. Barth compares the Tuaricks of Ghât and the Haghar to lions and tigers, and the Kailouees to snakes. The comparison well hits off their outward characteristics, but, as Overweg says, we must not judge of these people by the ordinary rules of morality, or apply to them an European standard.
The Touat people wish the Azgher and Haghar tribes to unite for the extermination of the robbers, who injure the commerce of all this part of Sahara. In the evening saw Haj Ibrahim. Kandarka came in: "Saif zain, wahad," he bawled out as usual. He entered into a minute description of the kind of sword he wished, one that would bend and was as elastic as a cane. Account of Timbuctoo.
Rainstorm Overtures from En-Noor Another Interview Aheer Fashions A great Lady Hoisting the British Flag A devoted Slave Sultan of Asoudee Attack on a Caravan Purposed Razzia Desert News Buying Wives A peculiar Salutation Oasis of Janet New Razzias Costume of the Sultan The Milky Way Noise at a Wedding Unquiet Nights Sickness in the Encampment A captive Scorpion Nuptial Festivities An insolent Haghar Prejudice about Christians Movements in Aheer Bullocks.
My blacks were taken aback at my treating a Haghar in this cavalier way; but I observe that they are now more cautious in permitting strangers to enter my tent. The day before I turned a saucy Kailouee out, and my servants begin to understand that I will not be pestered more with these people, and so they keep them off.
These mysterious Haghar are then determined, we thought, to pursue us Christians as their natural prey! The men rode coolly up and mingled with us, probably understanding and enjoying the looks of suspicion and terror that greeted them. No one thought proper, at first, to address them a single question; and they were allowed to picket their maharees without molestation.
We gave them powder and shot, and they swore they would die for us. Those people are sometimes called Haghar, and sometimes Azgher, in the journal. The latter appellation is probably the correct one in this case.
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