Note 8 — APPENDIX C.

This is evidently the river Ziz of Leo Africanus; and in his time, as at the present day, travellers going from Fez to Segelmese (modern Tafilelt) followed the course of the Ziz, or Siss. He also speaks of a river Ghir, which may possibly have been the affluent of the Siss mentioned by Rohlfs; but the particulars given are vague and scanty. It is interesting to remark that in Leo’s day the valley of the Siss was inhabited by a hardy and energetic Bereber tribe named Zanaga, probably the same as the Azanegues whom Cà da Mosto found about Oued Noun. They have since migrated across the Sahara, and still calling themselves Zanega, and speaking a Bereber dialect, are dangerous neighbours to the negro tribes of the Senegal.