overnors, upon
which the senate, resolving to punish and make a severe example of
the rebels, sent a powerful army into Mauritania, which vanquished
and reduced them again to obedience. Soon after the ringleaders of
the rebellion were put to death, and the tongues of the common
people, together with those of their wives and children, were cut
out, and then they were all put aboard vessels with some grain and
cattle, and transported to the Canary islands." [216]

[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