Note 95 — CHAP. XII.

I regret that I neglected to inquire what was the original Góber name of this place; for, while there cannot be any doubt that it received its present name, Máket-n-ikelán, from this transaction, it is very probable that it was a place of ancient pagan worship, and as such had a name of its own. It is very significant that the neighbouring plain is emphatically called “the plain of Aïr,”—in the Arabic form, “shʿabet el Ahír.”