File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [‎340r] (167/226)

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Sheikh Ham bin Kasam Mukbil ,upon solemn onth, states:-On
Thursday before last I left Aden with a letter from the Sahil for the Attifi
Sheikh. I arrived at A1 Kadthi on Saturday and found there Sheikh Ali ha
Saleh, the Attifi, and Sheikh Saleh ba Saleh-am-Tholtain, the Yusufi I
delivered one letter to each of these Sheikhs and said that ’the Government
demanded the surrender of the murderers of the postal sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. and the return of
the mail bags. They replied that as there was a blood-feud between the Attifis
and the Ah]-ai-lkni (deceased s tribe), there was no reason why the men who
imd kilTed Ai Maja’ali should beTianded over, three of their men having been
killed previously by the Abl-al*13an, X said that was no reason for their people
killing the man in British territory and warned them that the British mightf if
angered, come and burn their villages. They replied that Government had
taken no notice when the Ahhal-Ban had killed three Attifis and looted their
cattle, and they did not see why they should interfere now. That the blood-feud
was the sole cause of the present murder.
They said they would be willing to submit to the British Courts provided
the latter also punished the crimes committed against themselves by the Abdalis,
but they had not least intention of surrendering the offenders under any circum
stances. They told me that the mail bags had already been handed over to the
son of Syed Jaffer-el-Mamai to take to Aden.
They gave me a letter with their reply which I have brought and handed
over in the Besidency Office. A third letter which was given me in Aden I
gave to Sheikh Ali ba Saleh to send on to the addressee Sheikh Saeed ba Ali
Attifi, who was not present at Al Kadthi. I was told that the deceased’s camel
was with the Mansab of Al Kadthi, Sheikh Ismail, who was prepared to surren
der it on payment of $60, but not otherwise.
Before me,
(Signed) A. H. E. Mosse, Lieut.,
Assistant Besident and Magistrate, Eirst Class.
Aden, 10th February 1906.
I interviewed Sheikh Saeed Jailer, the Mamai, and his son Saleh bin Saeed
this afternoon.
They said that they and the other Wabasha tribes, the Juledi and the
Somati, and the sub-tribes Zufeti and Aufadthi lived in the south of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Maadin and that the Jorabis lived in the North. They said that they them
selves possessed two villages, Shurej and Dhu Sabr, which were c J; < j )S0 . e f c 1
other and lay between Wali Astani and Wali Abdur Baham. At Shurej they
said that there were about 100 houses, at Dhu Sabr about 30. They said that
their total numbers w r ere about 150 souls excluding children.
Part of the Mamail were, they said, under Sheikh Ahmed Basus
and there was another Sheikh Sakeh bin Ahmed. The followers of bheikh
Ahmed-am-Thoman which was south-west of their villages and formed part of
the same range as Masanna, but projected in the direction of bhawar.
They said that the Attifis were now at Masanna in the hills^ and hadj;aken
most or tueir ianus tuere. xu — i auu„i;
and Am Ukarija. Their dar at Am IJkaria had been destroyed by the Abdali
Sultan some time ago. In ordinary times also they grazed their herds near
Jabalain, but now had driven them up into the hills near Masanna.
Araira, they said, was cultivated land below Jabal-am-Thome and really
belonged to them, the Mamai.
The Yusufi were now also at Masanna. At the dar al What only an old
man named What now lived.
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