Note 546 — APPENDIX X

Said to mean in Arabic, ‘the rock without a rival, the solitary rock.’ There is a photo in Macleod, Chiefs and Cities, p. 206. Doc. sc. de la Mission Tilho, vol. ii, p. 355, quoting Nachtigal, speaks of a rock known as Hadjer Teous on the left bank of Chad, and a rock of this name is shown in Nachtigal’s map (reproduced on p. 14, vol. i of Tilho) on the south of Chad. Possibly Hadjer Hamis is sometimes called Hadjer Teous, but according to my information Hadjer Teous means ‘the he-goat rock’, and is situated north of Chad between Kanem and Wara. I am inclined to think, however, that they are the same. In the first edition of Denham there is a plate facing p. 261 of ‘Hager Teous called by the Natives the Foot Stool of Noah’. It is not shown on the map, but from the letterpress must have been on the south or south-east of the Lake; cf. also Chevalier, Mission Chari-Lac Tchad, p. 410, and p. 45 of the present work.