"سجلات تاريخ عُمان" [‎٨‎٧] (١١٢/١٠٤)

Notes to Boole Seventh.
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in witness of which are adduced the names " Cuscan" (Cushan of Hebrew writers),
[probably meaning Khasam] and a littoral termed by Pliny " the shore of Ham," " Litus
Hammeum," now Maham, (?), adjacent to which is a " Wadi Ham," " Valley of Ham''
(Types of Mankind). Again ; " Ramss, an Arab port, just inside the Persian Gulf,
perfectly answers to the sites of Raamah, catalogued among Kushite personifications
in xth Genesis {ibid.)."
10 (p. 64.) About six miles from Barka.
11 (p. 65.) The prisoners were sometimes placed in exposed situations during a
siege or battle to slacken the enemies' fire.
12 (p. 67.) Al-Walubeh. A numerous, powerful, and warlike Bedouin clan of
Sharkiyeh.
13 (p. 67.) "The Benu-IIindh and their allies" would be more accurate, but at
this period the term Hinai began to be used in its modern extended sense.
1 ^ (p. 68.) The el-Harth is the richest of the Hinawi tribes of the eastern districts.
Many of this family inhabit Zanzibar.
15 (p. 68.) El-Na'im. The dominant tribe of el-Jow and Bereyim.
16 (p. 70.) MaghriM meaning Nejdean.
1 7 (p. 70.) Tenuf. A town of the Green Mountain.
1 8 (p. 74.) A Mohammedi is about three pence.
1 9 (p. 74.) The election of Mohammed-bin Nasir to be Imam was evidently a
forced measure and adopted only because of the great power he wielded as a warrior and
ruler. His military genius seems to have surpassed that of any previous Imam or
governor of 'Oman, and he had well nigh become by sheer talent and energy supreme
over all 'Oman.
The restless energy of this Prince was imitated, for a time with much success, by
the late 'Azzan bin-Kais.
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