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70 THE BEDOUIN TRIBES

S. Minor Tribes of Southern He.jaz.

Several small independent tribes share the south part of Hojaz
with the two greater tribes, Harb and Ateibah, of which the first lies
along the coast, the second inland from Ta’if. They arc all, in part,
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settled or half-settled, and all acknowledge the authority of the
Sherif.
•. •. («) The Hudheil (Hatheil) are divided into two, main sections,
a northerly and a southerly. The first ranges east and south of
*. •• Mecca, and especially along the road between that city and
Ta’if, the second beyond Ta’if. No. I is said to have seven clans :
Mutarafah (Wadi, Fatimah), Mas‘ud (Rr qs-Seil), Sowahar (Rl‘
es-Seil), B. ‘Amr, Met‘an (from Mecca to -Jiddah), Lahiyan (east
of Mecca), Janabir (El-Kor). No. II has eight clans: Garhlyah,
Marziiqlyah, Sarwani, Kabkabi, B. Faltm, Nadwlyah, Dadlyah, and
‘Abdiyah.
(/j) Beni Faham, a small tribe living in Wadi Waghar, to the east
of the Juhadlah and between them and the Beni Thaqlf. They are
entirely nomadic and are noted for their skill in tracking. They
are friendly with the Beni Thaqlf and Juhadlah, and are still faithful
to Sherif 'Ali, the deposed Sherif of Mecca. The Chief Sheikh is
Isma‘11 ibn Dahyan. They number about 1,000 men. Related to
the Qoreish.
(c) The Juhadlah are an entirely nomad tribe with no defined
limits, but such boundaries as they have may be said to start just
south of Serum (Serom), the southern limit of the Harb, and run
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thence almost to Lith, covering all the coast and taking a wide sweep
inland to the east of Jebel Abu Shank and Jebcl Sa'dlyah. Their
neighbours on the south are the A1 Mahdi and Dhawi Barakat and,
l to the north-east of Lith, the Beni Faham.
They also mingle with the Dhawi Surur and Shenabrah to the
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south of Mecca, and are generally to be found along the road from
•JDvLU. Mecca to Jebel 'Arafat and east to Shaddad and Jebel Mohram.
From Serum to Lith, however, is their original district, the chief
centre being round Sa'dlyah. They number about 4,000 men and.
although good fighters, are not quarrelsome. Their country is a poor
one, and affords scanty pasturage to their herds of camels, in which
they are fairly rich. In times of drought they go south to Wadi
Dokhah in the Dhawi Barakat country. They do not cultivate
but buy all their grain from Ta if or Lith. in return for the semtl
which they sell. They all carry spears and knives, and, those who
can afford them, rifles.