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CHAP. XI.] POPULATION OF PERSIA.
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or minor tribes, composing the Mikris, l^OOO. 1 The Bilbas, and KMzistan.
wearing steel helmets and shirts of mail, and armed with spear
and shield, 5000. 2 The Rehavend in 'Irak, the Anaffje and
Erdilary in Khuzistan, and portions of the Millis Kurds who
occupy the southern slopes of the Taurus, about 14,000, The
Agakkani, in Lower Fars, the Bowie, near Ahwaz, the Beni
Houle, near the river Indian, and the people of Chaab. The
last number about 65,000 souls, of whom, besides the Id-deris,
the tribe of the Sheikh, there are 25 branches of the Derrees,
in addition to 20 of the family of Shebeat Ben Shems, and 18
sections of peasant Arabs. 3 The Kurdish tribes in the vale of
Mushed, Burujud, Khabushan, Isferayin, Chinaran, and Dere-
jez; some living in houses, and the rest in tents; and subdivided
into the Shadilu, Kara-Cherehlu, and Yezidi; in all about
50,000. 4 The remainder of the FaiM, 5 spread over the ter-Tribes of
ritory of Shuster, Dizful, Hawiza, the banks of the Kerkhah
and the Karun, &c., number nearly 80,000. The bulk of
the Bakhtiyari (not enumerated with those of Luri Buzurg)
are spread from Kirman to Kazerun, and from Kom to
Shuster. They live in villages of twenty or thirty houses,
situated in defensible mountain-valleys, and occasionally in
caves of still more difficult access. This portion of the tribe
may number about 72,000.® The Shekagi, who occupy the
northern province of Azerbaijan, 7 about 50,000. The Shah-
Sewund 8 are near Teheran, and in Azerbaijan, and muster
about 20,000. 9 And the Memacenni of Fars, who claim
descent from Zab, the father of Rustam, as well as from that
conqueror, and were originally from Seistan, about 10,000. 10
1 Major Rawlinson, Vol. X. Part I., p. 34, of the Royal Geographical Journal.
2 The Pirdn, Mengilr, and Mdmish, the three principal branches of this
tribe, comprise 25 subdivisions.—Ibid., p. 33.
3 MS. of the late Claudius James Rich, Esq.
4 Morier, Vol. VII. Part II., p. 233, of the Royal Geographical Journal.
5 Not already enumerated with the tribes of Luri-Kuchuk.
6 Morier, Vol. VII. Part II., p. 234, of the Royal Geographical Journal.
7 Ibid., p. 235.
8 SMh-Sewund in Zend, or Pehlevi, King's friend, now a separate tribe,
which was originally composed of the different followers of Aghd Muhammed
Khdn.
Ibid. 10 ^id., p. 236.
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