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VI.] TRAVELS IN OMAN. 83

December <dth. Early this morning we again

set forward, and, after a pleasant ride, at a
good round pace, arrived at Beni-Abu-’Al'i. I

found the greater number of the tribe as­
sembled around the tent, and, upon inquiry,

discovered that some Bedowins of the neigh­
bouring tribe, of Beni-’Abu-Hasan, had ap­

proached during the night, and purloined a
goat which had been sent by the Sheikh of

Kamil the day before as a present for me.
My servants having made the head man of

the tribe acquainted with it, they were wait­
ing my arrival to retaliate upon the plun­

derers by seizing some of their cattle, and it
was not without difficulty that I dissuaded

them from this intention. Among these war­
like tribes the most trifling incident is suf­

ficient to set them by the ears, and I am told

scarcely a year passes that the Imam is not
compelled to send some influential individual
to adjust their broils.

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