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Notes to Chapter Two
are reckoned a section of the Bani Yas; but they are said to be of Mahra
origin and to have come originally from Hadhramaut".
24 See below pages 239 and Lorimer, Ilistor., p. 772 and 765.
25 About 57 houses according to the UK Memorial II, p. 292.
26 See below, pages 286ff.
27 Shaikha Salama’s brother Hamad bin Buti moved with his sister to Abu
Dhabi and married a Suwaidi woman; his son Ahmed bin Hamad
became a member of the first Abu Dhabi government and has been
Minister of Information in the UAE government since 1971.
28 See UK Memorial I, p. 53; in the 1950s there were about 80 Hawamil
families in the LTwa.
29 See also below, page 110
30 See also below, page 111. He was also closely related to the Khamarah.
an Arab tribal group from the Persian coast.
31 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1842.
32 See Lorimer, Histor., p. 750.
33 The other shaikhdom which may be considered a tiny nation-state is
Fujairah, but its territory is a fraction of that of Abu Dhabi—450 sq.
miles as opposed to 26,000 sq. miles—and is much more uniform in
character, being all mountainous terrain within easy reach of the beach.
34 Exceptions were the repeated secessions in the 19th century; see above,
page 29.
35 See also for the following Kelly, Eastern, pp. 39ff, UK Memorial I, pp.
53-8, Lorimer, Geogr., pp. 1162ff.
36 Lorimer lists only three sections while the A1 Bu al Khail are counted as
a subsection of the Al Bu Rahmah and the Al Bu Hamlr as a section of
the Bani Yas; this accounts for some of the discrepancies between the
total figures for the tribe in the Gazetteer compared to later counts.
37 See Kelly, Eastern, p. 39 and UK Memorial 1, p. 54. According to the
Memorial there were about 50 individuals living in Abu Dhabi town, 30
were settled in Qatar and 550 in Dubai.
38 See Kelly, Eastern, p. 40. But these figures differ slightly from those of
other authorities also concerned with the study of the LTwa in the 1950s;
see UK Memorial I, p. 18 for summary.
39 See below, pages 116f.
40 See below, pages 45f and footnote 65.
41 See below, page 46f.
42 Lorimer, Geogr., p. 439 has the higher figure. The estimate in UK
Memorial I, p. 60 is 2,000.
43 For the change in the property ownership in the oasis see also Kelly,
Eastern, p. 46. See also below, pages 50ff.
44 Some of them are listed by Kelly in Eastern, p. 45, footnote 2; and in UK
Memorial I, p. 60.
45 Shaikh Sultan bin Surur al Dhahiri had been the representative of
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