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 order, dating from the eleventh century, much revered by the surrounding nomads. On the route to the Boanam oasis west of Kenatsa, the Beni-Sithe Kabyles work some lead and antimony mines in a neighbouring hill.

In the upper Wed Guir basin the most populous oasis is that of Figuig, about 30 miles from the conventional line accepted as the frontier between Algeria and

Marocco. The fifteen thousand inhabitants of Figuig, nearly all members of the Amur tribe, bear a great reputation for prowess throughout the Sahara, due, to the belief that in the conflicts with the French they must have remained victorious, seeing that the oasis has not yet been seized by France.