I have obtained a list, such as it is, of the towns and villages
surrounding Tintalous. Seloufeeat and Tintaghoda are not mentioned, as
they lay in our route to this place. My informant declined to give any
account of the numbers of the population, in all cases.[15]
[15] He may have refused from superstitious motives. Muslims are
peculiarly sensitive on this subject. In Egypt, Mohammed
Ali encountered considerable passive resistance in his
endeavours to procure a census.--ED.
From Tintalous, as radii, are spread around the towns and villages
of--As[)a]ra, two hours west; As[)a]r[)a]ra, a place near Asoudee;
Gh[)a]loulaf, four hours south; Asoudee, six hours south-south-west;
T[)a]nous[)a]m[)a]t, two hours west (forty people); Agh[)o][)o][=o]u,
two hours north (country of Escort En-Noor); T[)a]n[=a]s[)a]m[=a], four
hours east (one family); Agh[)a]dez, six days south-west; Baghzem, two
days south; Agh[)a]l[)a]gh, a few hours further south (fifty people);
Bind[)a]ee, one hour and a-half east (no people); Teelaou, four hours
east; Tegheda, a walk for shepherds, three hours west; Asoud[)a]r[)a]ka,
five hours south (forty or fifty); Terken, seven hours west (not known);
Time[)e][)a], four hours west (fifty, and many dates); Doumous, one day
west; Agharghar, two days west; Oud[)a]ras, two days south-south-west
(place for shepherds); Abasas, two days south (a place for shepherds);
Tabernee (a well), two days south; Shouw[)a]r[=e]k[)e]d[=e], or
Touwerkedad (on the side of Tabernee), one day south; Maree, one day
south (place for shepherds); Ar[)a]s[=a]mad[)a]n, by the side of Maree,
south (well); Shintaghalee, in Wady Tentaghemea, near the above, south;
Azanwazgh[)e]r, near the above, south; Zanairas,[16] two days
north-east.
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