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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎102] (117/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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102
ADEN
LOWER AULAKI—
The Ba Kazim with its numerous sub-divisions compose the entire tribal population
of Lower Aulaki, and can put into the field about 5,000 men. They are a hardy and
turbulent race, always engaged in petty feuds amongst themselves, or raids on their
immediate neighbours, the Abd el Wahid, Fadli, and Oleh. They have a bad reputa
tion with the other tribes on account of their fondness for drink and their slackness
in religious observances, but are redeemed by their genuineness and bravery.
They have no paramount chief, such influence as the tribe will pemit being exercised
by the brother chiefs of the Ahl Ali section at Ghidabah, Fadl, and Ali Mehsin.
The Sultan of Lower Aulaki lives at Akhwar, about five miles from the coast. He
has very little influence over the Ba Kazim tribesmen.
UPPER AULAKI—
AHL MAAN—
Ahl Ali Abu Hamed. Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Yeshbum from Wasitah to es-Safal, 2,200.
Tribe.
Ahl Bu Bekr
1,000
Ahl Yeshbum Erwes.
Ahl Bu Bekr
Ahl Atink
Ahl Salim
Ahl Abdullah
500 Ahl Aguz
Ahl Merwan
Ahl Mehran
Ahl Gaar
Remarks.
Ruling house of Ahl Maan. Pre
sent representative Urn Rusas
Bu Farid. They inhabit Said
and Wasitah.
Pastoral and nomadic, Kanr
Edth and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Khawan.
Inhabit Kam Mabr and Heyd
Shuk (see vicinity of Yeshbum
bok.) Settled and agricultural.
In Heyd Rafal, where they are
pastoral and nomadic; also in
lower reaches of West Shabah
near its junction with west
Yeshbum. Here they have a
little land.
At Arashan and Mehlal along
West Shabdh. Settled and
agricultural; small proportion
pastoral and semi-nomadic.
At Arashan, settled and agricul
tural there, but at least half of
them are pastoral. A few re
side at Mehlal.
In upper reaches of West Shab.
Pastoral.
In Husn Shab. close to junction of
West Shab and West Shabath.
bettled and agricultural. A
few follow pastoral life further
up the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. .

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (523 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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