[Footnote 214: Telde or Tildie is a place in the Atlas mountains, three miles east of Agadeer; the castle is in ruins.]
[Footnote 215: The Alarbes, this is the name that the inhabitants of Lower Suse and Sahara have, _El Arab_ or Arabs.]
[Footnote 216: One Thomas Nicols, who lived seven years in the Canary Islands, and wrote a history of them, says, that the best account he could get of the origin of the natives, was, that they were exiles from Africa, banished thence by the Romans, who cut out their tongues for blaspheming their gods.]
The following vocabulary will show the similarity of language between the natives of Canaria and the Shelluhs (inhabitants of the Atlas mountains south of Marocco).
LANCEROTTA AND SHELLUH OR ENGLISH. FUERTAVENTURA DIALECT. LYBIAN TONGUE.
Temasin Tumzeen Barley Tezzezes Tezezreat Sticks Taginaste Taginast A palm-tree Tahuyan Tahuyat A blanket, covering, or petticoat. Ahemon Amen Water 381 Faycag Faquair Priest or lawyer Acoran M'koorn God Almogaren Talmogaren Temples Tamoyanteen Tigameen Houses Tawacen Tamouren Hogs Archormase Akermuse Green figs Azamotan Azamittan Barley meal fried in oil Tigot Tigot Heaven Tigotan Tigotan The Heavens Thener Athraar A mountain Adeyhaman Douwaman A hollow valley Ahico Tahayk A hayk, or coarse garment Kabeheira Kabeera A head man or a powerful Ahoren ---- Barley meal roasted Ara ---- A goat Ana ---- A sheep Tagarer ---- A place of justice
Benehoare, the name of the natives of Palma.
Beni Hoarie, a tribe of Arabs in Suse between Agadeer and Terodant.[217]
[Footnote 217: For further particulars, see Glasse's History of the Canary Islands, 4to. page 174.]
TITLES OF THE EMPEROR OF MAROCCO, STYLE OF ADDRESSING HIM, AND SPECIMENS OF EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE.
Commander, Captain, or Leader of the (Mumeneen) _Faithful_ [i.e. in Muhamed], _upheld by the Grace of God_.
_Prince of Hassenee_. Ever supported by God.
_Sultan of Fas, of Maroksh_ [Marocco], _of Suse, and of Draha, and of Tafilelt and Tuat, together with all the kabyles_ [tribes] _of the West, and of the Berebbers of Atlas, &c._
The Sultan calls his soldiers (_ketteffee_) "my shoulders or support, or strength;" his subjects he calls his sons (_woledee_), and himself the father of his people.