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CHIEFS—JOASMEES—ABOOTHABEE—BENIYAS—DEBAYE. 103

I-Iis family of sons are as follows :—
Suggur; appointed Governor of Shargah in 1838 (vice Saleh bin Si
Suggur); about thirty years of age; his mother from the Joasmee tribe.
Majid; about thirty years of age; Hubshee mother.
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Abdoolla; about twenty-three years of age; mother from the tribe
of Towanah Al Ali. .
Ibrahim; about twenty-three years of age; mother the daughter of II
Ibrahim Moolla Ali Murzoogcc.
Khelid ; about seven years of age ; mother from the Joasmee tribe.
Rashid (deceased); mother from the Beniyas.
Syud ; own brother to Suggur.
Suggur bin Sultan has issue,—
Seif (since deceased); mother the daughter of his uncle, Mahomed
bin Suggur.
Mahomed; three or four years of age.
Abootiiabee—Beniyas.
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The present Chief, Khaleefa bin Shakboot, aged about thirty years,
I having, with the assistance of his own brother, Sultan, killed the elder
brother, Tahnoon, in 1833, succeeded to the chieftainship.
The father, Shaikh Shakboot bin Zhcab, succeeded in 1793-94 in
establishing himself in the chief authority over the tribe, which was,
however, usurped in 1816 by his eldest son, Mahomed, who was in his
turn deposed two years after by his brother, Shaikh Tahnoon, through
the assistance of His Highness the Imaum.
Shaikh Shakboot, the father, and Shaikh Sultan the brother, continue
to reside at Aboothabee, but enjoy no power or share in the Govern­
ment.
Shaikh Shakboot had seven sons :
Tahnoon (murdered) ..
Mahomed.........................
Hullal .............................
Yafoor ............................. - Of one mother.
Khaleefa (present Chief)
Sultan................................
Syud (deceased).............
Shaikh Khaleefa bin Shakboot has two sons, of whom the elder,
Zaeed, is nine years of age.
JDebaye.
Shaikh Muktoom bin Butye succeeded Obed bin Saeed in 1836, two
years after that Chief, with the Boo Fclasa (a branch of the Beniyas
Tribe from Aboothabee), seceding from the main body, and asserting ■

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