ON THE NAME OF AN EGYPTIAN DOG

Many of the tribes that inhabit the wilderness to the West of Egypt speak even now dialects akin to those of the Touaregs and the Kabyles \ If the identification between

T )i^*'^~^'^5^ abaqarou and O'.im abaïkour is allowed to be right, it becomes necessary to admit that some at least of the Tamahou and Robou tribes spoke a Berber tongue, and were of Berber origin.

1. See the vocabulary of the Siouah Dialect in Cailliaud, Voyage à Méroè, t. 1, p. 409, 292, and Hanoteau, Essai de Grammaire kabi/le.