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CHAPTER VII

ADEN AND HADHRAMAUT
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The Resident of Aden exercises political influence over a very
extensive tract of country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula,
south of a line beginning at Ras Turbah (Turbakh), a point at the i
extreme south-westerly comer of Arabia, and extending roughly in A
a north-easterly direction to the desert; it comprises all the terri­
tory to the south of this line, inclusive of the Hadhramaut. In the
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present chapter this region will be considered in two sections : ■
(A) Aden and the Interior (including the Aden Protectorate proper)
and (B) The Hadhramaut.

A. ADEN AND THE INTERIOR

Area

The Aden Interior includes the actual Protectorate (q. v. p. 183)
and the remoter tribes under the outer Aden sphere of influence,
but excludes the Sultanates of the Hadhramaut and the Wahldi.
Its western boundary is the delimitation line drawn (Jan. 1902-
Dec. 1904) by the Anglo-Turkish Commission, from Ras Turbah,
a point opposite Perim Island, inland past Jalilah, north of Dhala
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and a little south of Qa'tabah, to the Bana River, and produced
thence by a line, not fixed by actual survey, north-east to Beihan \
ei-Jezab. The eastern boundary is not so clearly defined, but may
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e indicated by a line drawn northward from Sheikh ‘Abd er-Rahman
,c°astal shrine marking the lower ‘Aulaqi eastern border) to a
half-way between Yeshbum, an important settlement in
Th«6r ^u^a<lb and Habban, a town of the Wahldi Sultanate.
's'herfl0rf^eni *8 ^e Ruba‘ el-Khali, or great inland desert, the ■
relar °Y^elhan el-Jezab being the most northerly chief in political
coastTxr^ yith Aden. The southern limit is, of course, the sea-
wegt-m ^^hin this frontier the most important section is the
Hauguk- CornPrising the territories of the Emir of Dhala, the
pass tli’ a Porti°n the Subeihi. Through these districts
6 main trade-routes from Turkish Yemen, the only routes

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