Up from the native section of town streamed hordes of costumed Rifs, Arabs, Berbers of a dozen tribes, even an occasional Blue Man.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
He gives the inhabitants a good character; they are a mixture of Moors, Arabs, Touaricks, Berbers, and Negroes, like nearly all the oases in Central Sahara, or that portion of The Great Desert, extending from the oases of Fezzan to the Saharan towns of Arwan and Mabrouk, on the western-route line of Timbuctoo.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
It may, indeed, have been colonized previously to the arrival of the Arabs in Africa by the ancient Berbers, or Numidians, but the castle itself is of Moorish modern construction.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson