Dwaish

Dwaish, a numerous people of the Upper Senegal Veilloy, North-west Africa, originally Berbers, but much mixed with Arab and Negro elements, and now speaking Arabic. They are conterminous on the east with the Brakna Moors, and claim as their territory all the land along the banks of the Senegal towards the north-west of Bnkel. (General Faidherbe, Annuaire du Senegal, 1858.)