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COMMANDER F. JONES’S
The following tribes are met with to the north-west of Baghdad, above
the Saklawiyeh canal, chiefly on the right bank of the Tigris.
Families. Tents. Usual abode.
Al-bu Sagr qqq
Al-Meshahedeh 350
Aj-Jebour 140
From Saklawiyeh to Suadiyeh in
the Desert.
From Taji to Tarmiyeh.
| On the District called Taji be-
1 tween Kathemenfand Tell Goosh.
The first of these is wholly pastoral, and of Dellim blood originally. It
pays tribute direct to Baghdad. The two last cultivate lands usually pertain
ing to the farmed district of the Dijeil. They have cattle in plenty, a few
horse, and are capable of maintaining a position in a territory exposed to
Bedoin visits. A gun to a tent will exceed, perhaps, their strength in fire-arms.
They are expert thieves, and indulge their propensities in petty ways unusual
with the tribes in general.
Tribe of Dellim, whose territory is chiefly upon the east bank of the Eu
phrates, from west of Baghdad to the north as far as the town of Hit.
Families. Tents. Usual abode.
Al-Maamdek 100 From Saklawiyeh to Nemaleh.
Al-Dhuweyb 100 A1 Ghurbut.
Al-Maamdek 90 From Saklawiyeh to Nemaleh.
Al-bu Shhab 200 Nemaleh.
Qirtan 60 Al’Aosijeh.
Al-bu Obeyd 100 Umm at Rus.
Al-bu Alwaan 100 Kabr Feraj.
Al-Jenabiyin 300 Zoweyht al Feraj
Al-bu Rageybeh 50 Ditto.
Al-bu Feraj 60 Sheikh Hadid.
Al-bu Dhiyab 200 Ditto.
Al-bu Assaf. 100 As Sifeyneh.
Al-bu Nimr 300 ? Nefateh (Naphta Springs) to
S Sinadek.
The tribe is powerful in Arab signification. Its families are rich and combine
the peaceful character of the cultivator with the warlike one of the Bedoin.
Many of its more aristocratic chiefs and people will not indeed till the soil,
they of course fatten upon the spoil obtained from the w'eak. The territory
they inhabit is a rich one, and 340 irrigating wells in the districts are counted,
as belonging to the tribe. Each well is supposed to pay to the Zabit of the
tribe, on account of Government, one ton of barley, half a ton of wheat, and
the value of about thirty shillings in money at every harvest, but much of this
payment is evaded, owing to the weakness of the Government.
The territory of the Dellim on the west of the Euphrates is celebrated also
for its natural springs of fine water, which in the spring of the year overflow
and fall into the Euphrates. In the summer the waters recede, but the ground