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44 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OP THE PERSIAN GULP POLITICAL
El-Ya'Xribeh.
Tina tribe now almost extinct, claims to derive from Yaarab-lin-
KuhlL who ruled over Yemen, ’Omfin, and Hadhramaut and who i.

*Hf«£ «"*. & as
°f 1 jin influence and respectability in the country. Their power,
W e did not' bSomc eniirely broken until the.capturc of their last
however, u . Seyy d 'Azzfin-bin-Kais in 13G9. The siege
s Wr nrn ''lited nearly iiue months, as Seyyid ’Azzin having no
of El-Hazam • * compelled to invest the fort and starve the
guns to break the wa^Uwas^op Mohammed.bitl.Sui;maI,, was killed
garrison The Aaftr^m. defcndei.s baving exhausted their
in a sortie of the garrison^ Qur froia auy quarter, at length
supplies, and having no
yielded.

Muscat, (Sd.) S. B. Miles, Zieul.-Col
The 27M May 1881 .} 11. B. Mis PolU. Agent & Consul, Muscat.