Chapter One: The Daoudi Tribes [El Sidi Mohamed Ben Mehdi] whom they hate, and their warlike disposition makes them - if left unused for a long time - set off as rebels or raiders against neighbors, whether friends or foes! And Boubaker Ibn Abdurrahman] travels today between Ras el Ma and Daouna, thus protecting this region, while Hama [Ibn Sidi El Mokhtar] wanders in the direction of Bitakentkou, but he travels lighter (23) at a great distance north of Afakin, accompanied by Tihakant, reaching the area of El Mesrah. And the Termez wander until that quarter northeast of Timbuktu, where they pitch their tents, in case of fear of raiders, where the men devote themselves to confronting them. And as is common, the Termez are next to the Kenta, and especially thanks to the prestige of Sheikh Hamadi (24) they have become affiliated with the Qadiriya. The narrative tells us that this affiliation dates back a long time, thanks to the guidance of Sheikh Sidi El Mokhtar the Great; and we must mention, in addition to the followers of the Qadiriya, some followers of the Tijaniyya who took it from the sheikhs of this order in the province, namely [the scholar] Mohamed Yahya and [the people of] Ab and Mohamed Ben Sidi Othman. There are two Zawiyas for them in Hamad El Mokhtar El Jafri, born around 1880 in Termez El Qiblatain, and his school includes about twenty students, and he is reasonably educated, especially in Usul al-Fiqh; and Mohamed Ben Boubaker El Siddiq, born around 1882, is an educated and respected man with fifteen students; And Termez, due to their affiliation with the Negroes, have come to believe in the Qadiriya for some beings (called in Soninke language Kapi), a situation rarely found among the Bidhan tribes, and their "Kapi" is the crow, and legend says that during a great battle, one of their ancestors lay on the ground, covered in his blood, until a crow came and drank his blood, enabling him to stand up and escape, and from that date the men of Termez respect the crow, and Termez has significant herds consisting of a thousand camels, twenty horses, 600 cows, 175 donkeys, and 6000 head of sheep and goats. It seems that their attention has been directed since the occupation of the country to the cultivation of millet and wheat in Afakin, and from 1913 they regularly requested land for cultivation, and formed agricultural villages with their servants. (23) Plural of the word "khawf" (fear). (24) He is Hamadi Ben Sidi Mohamed Ben El Sheikh Sidi El Mokhtar the Younger Ben El Sheikh Sidi Mohamed Ben El Sheikh Sidi El Mokhtar the Great, who was the head of Kenta Azawad during the French occupation, and died in 1912.