File 3939/1926 Pt 3 'Publications: Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Aden and Arabia Sections.' [‎43r] (79/410)

ADEN —The Upper Yafai, the Audah, the Haushabu
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the Minister of the Sultan of Shehr and Mokalla, paid a special visit
to Upper Yafa, with the approval of the Resident, and obtained the
signatures of the Yafai Chiefs to an agreement by which they declared
themselves bound by their existing treaties with Great Britain and
pledged themselves to tribal unity and combination against any
aggressors.
The numbers of the Upper Yafai tribesmen are estimated, on neces
sarily imperfect data, at 80,000.
(10) The Audali.
The Audali country is of considerable extent and lies between the
Fadthli on the South, Aulaki on the East and Yafai on the West.
The Sultan made overtures for treaty relations in 1902, but he was
not at the time considered of sufficient importance for these to be
encouraged.
In 1903 owing to their suppose complicity with the Ahl Am Saidi of
Dathina in an attack on a British survey party, the Audali ex
cluded from Aden; but the overtures were continued, and in September
1914 a Protectorate Treaty (No. LI) was concluded with Sultan Kasim
bin Ahmed. Thio was ratified -m November 1914.
In 1923* the Imam’s troops invaded Audali territory. They were
compelled to withdraw from the lowland (Ahl Kaur) but they are still
in possession of the highland (Dahir range).
(11) The Haushabi.
On the 14th June 1839 an Engagement (No. LII) was entered into
with Sultan Mani bin Salam of this tribe, of the same tenor as those
with the Abdali, the Fadthli, and the Yafai. In the previous January,
a Treaty (No. LIU) of friendship and peace had been signed by two 1
other Chiefs of the Haushabi tribe with the British representative.
Sultan Mani bin Salam, though more than once invited by the Abdali
and Fadthli Chiefs to join them in their attacks upon Aden, steadily
declined their overtures. He died in June 1858, and was succeeded
by his nephew, Obaid bin Yahya, during whose rule friendly relations
were uninterruptedly maintained with the Haushabi. Obaid bin Yahya
died in 1863, and was succeeded by his cousin, Ah bin Mani. The
relations of Sultan Ali bin Mani with the neighbouring Chiefs and the
British Government were for a long time the reverse of cordial. In 1868
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he cut off the supply of water from a rivulet which irrigates the Lahe 3
territory, and destroyed the crops on lands belonging to the Sultan oi
Lahei. An action ensued in which the Haushabi Chief was defeatec .
In payment of the loss suffered by the Sultan of Lahej, Sultan Ah bm