The Basin and the Mauritanian Coast 28 The customs post at But it had a garrison in The events at Timbuktu were not On the other hand, the customs post at Boudebadi, which monitored the area between Tiri and Soumbi, did not reconnaissance operations along the well line. successive allowed the resumption of Negotiations with the Oulad Allouch were resumed, and Sheikh Ben Sidi continued to disregard us, and maintained his unchanging behavior, raiding from one side and diverting the attention of the region from the other with promises of submission and the implementation of imposed peace terms, including the commitment to repair and maintain the wells of the Ras El Ma line up to Baskno, but he did nothing, so these wells gradually fell into disrepair and ruin, becoming unusable; Sheikh Ben Sidi at the same time insisted on his good intentions and the impossibility of repairing the wells, as he was supposed to return the captives he had taken at Tria Tadrouieh and Founa Nkobi, but he returned only five of them, implying that the spoils had been divided with the kidnappers who had taken him, and they had only given him the number he returned, and he also claimed that he had no influence over the kidnappers to force them to return the rest. The mediation of [Sheikh] Sidi El Kheir and the tribe of Ahel Taleb Mokhtar, where the contract LAMARY was made, did not yield any significant results; on the contrary, it worsened the situation, as [Mohamed] Meftah El Kheir, brother of [Sheikh] Sidi El Kheir, was violently kidnapped from Baskno shortly thereafter by Sidi Ben El Sheikh, which led to the suspension of negotiations. In short, the majority of the Oulad Allouch cattle had formed an alliance with us at Sekolo by the end of 1896, and declared their genuine submission. By these, we mean the semi-nomadic and settled or recently settled servants subject to the Oulad Allouch. However, the Oulad Allouch camels, the free nomads of the desert, remained in a state of complete rebellion and posed a danger. Sheikh Ben Sidi harbored our enemies in his camps, such as Hadj Ben Yekno [chief of [Fulan]] and Nkouna [Ben Houali, chief of [Glaad]], and tried to draw the tribes that had submitted into the revolt. From that period onwards, the majority of the plundering in the Ras El Ma and Horro and Afakiyyin regions were attributed to members of his tribe; at the same time, the Sheikh continued his old practice of collecting taxes from all caravans passing through Baskno. This situation continued until his death on October 25, 1897, and resumed under his son Sidi (14), who took over the leadership of the tribe after his uncle Mokhtar Toli took it until 1905. In that year, a leader of the Ghamama, Sheikh Ben Sidi Ahmed El Hussein, was assassinated by Hanana, Sidi's brother, after which