The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ted with two friends for the forbidden goal. For-bidden, as all mountains are in this country, whether tothe Government or foreigners, by primitive Berber tribeswhose ancient home they are, tribes which have neverknown subjugation. On this account the visitors who have found accessto them may be reckoned on ones fingers. Twice deter-mined attempts have been made by English T T 1 Previous parties under Government escort; Hooker, Searches. Ball and Maw in the seventies, Joseph Thom-son and Crichton-Browne in the eighties; while once ortwice Eu
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ted with two friends for the forbidden goal. For-bidden, as all mountains are in this country, whether tothe Government or foreigners, by primitive Berber tribeswhose ancient home they are, tribes which have neverknown subjugation. On this account the visitors who have found accessto them may be reckoned on ones fingers. Twice deter-mined attempts have been made by English T T 1 Previous parties under Government escort; Hooker, Searches. Ball and Maw in the seventies, Joseph Thom-son and Crichton-Browne in the eighties; while once ortwice European hunting parties have gone up in searchof audad. Of the two parties mentioned, the latterwas by far the more successful, but neither reached 444 IN SEARCH OF MILTSIN Miltsin, so the highest peak yet remains to be ascendedand its height recorded. * Striking the mountains five and a half hours—say-twenty miles—from here, at Tahanaut, we followed theroute of Hooker and Thomson to Asni, amud-built village at the head of the winding Our ASCENDING THE GHEGHAYA VALLEY. Pliotograph by Dr. Rudduck. gorge of the Gheghaya. where that river is formed bythe junction of the Iminan and the Ait Mizan, from leftand right respectively. So far the track lay along theriver bed among the shingle, which we forded and re-forded at every turn, but from this point the gorgesgrew too narrow and rugged for that, and it was neces-sary to climb up and down the hillsides, rounding,descending and mounting by the barest of tracks, often ???? Mr. W. B. Harris suggests the Jebel Ayashi, half-way between Fezand Tafilalt, may ultimately prove to be the highest peak in the wholerange.] 1 Tafdet, p. 88. THOMSONS RECORD 445 not more than six inches wide, alonj^f a precipice. Asthe only means of approach to the districts beyond,these paths are perforce kept practicable here and thereby repairs, but they are only safe for mountain mules. *Hookers party had followed the Ait Mizan gorge towhere it ende
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