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Updated: May 10, 2025
A merchant of the Ben Welleed, who wished to visit me, said, "I must come round the city, for I don't know the streets of the Ben Wezeet. Thank God! I never went through them in my life." This he said with vehemence, intimating that he never would enter the streets of the Ben Wezeet as long as he lived.
There is a singularity about the language of Ghadames: it has differences as spoken by the two factions of the Weleed and the Wezeet, the provincialisms of the country. It is highly probable that the various Berber dialects are the fragments of the language of those formidable, but doubtful, auxiliaries, which so often balanced and changed the fortune of Roman and Carthaginian arms.
They told me they met here every morning, and chatted over the news of the previous day. Usually they meet just after sunrise, and certainly in this way they pass a cool and fragrant hour, full of the odoriferous breathings of the gardens as the day is awakening. I asked one, who were the richer, the Weleed or the Wezeet? He replied, with an honourable frankness, "The Wezeet."
My taleb only wrote the following when I asked him to give some historical information respecting these factions: "The Ben Weleed and the Ben Wezeet are people of Ghadames, who have quarrelled from time immemorial: it was the will of God they should be divided, and who shall resist his will? Yâkob, be content to know this!"
The Grand Factions of Ghadames, the Ben Weleed and the Ben Wezeet. Interest of the People in Algerian Affairs. Names, from Bodily Deformities. Starving Slaves makes them Thieves. Disease of the Arak-el-Abeed. Finances of Ghadames. The Prophet Jonah, still living. Bad system of collecting Taxes by common Soldiers. Essnousee leaves for Ghat, alone. The Thob. Stroke of the Moon.
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