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and the other big raids, it is quite possible that a third
may have been represented in the deaths and losses of the
subsequent flight. Petty raids like those of the Trans
jordan tribes never produce such effects.
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The Howeitat were formerly a prosperous tribe.
Although’I did not know them intimately until my recent
visit, both their caravans and their raids enter Iraq and most
of the Bedouins in that cduntry knew and described them.
• How, in every Bedouin tribe more or less, the
average of camels owned per tent is probably fifteen to twenty.
In order to live, the Bedouins sell one or two camels per year
per tent. This cannot be done if the flock consists of less
then ten, males and females included. A tent with less than
ten camels is therefore not an economic proposition and its
occupants cannot live. Usually one of them hires himself
out as a herdsman or a servant to a Sheikh or a merchant or
else he raids.
I recently visited the Darawshah section of the
Howeitat numbering about fifty tents. They had teen twice
raided this year, by A1 Hashmi and by the Shararat during the
MacDonnell arbitration. The average number of camels per
tent when I vis ted them was two and a half. The section
claim that, a year ago, they owned something in the neighbour
hood of, I think, one t ousand six hundred camels, en average
of just over thirty per tent. This is perhaps an exaggeration
although they are said to have been exceptionally prosperous,
the Sheikh himself owning about 200. (I think he now has
about twelve). However that may be, I must confess that I
cannot see how the occupants of these fifty tents can long
keep