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by numerous difficult ravines, separated by steep and rocky
wooded hills, which generally are occupied by castellated
buildings, to defend the coffee plantations. Near the crest of
the chain, on the western side of the territory, are Nejd, Beni
Morean, Beni Sereem, Khamir, Khede, and Dobber ; and on
the eastern side. El Harf, Left, Barrad, Haud, Aram, Nehm,
Kbaiwan. Deiban, and Khaiwan. The latter district contains many
villages and well-watered fields; and it is occupied by several
warlike tribes, who, like the Swiss in Europe, furnish soldiers
to some of the other states. One branch, the Beni-ad-Dhe-
hak, a section of the A1 Yaghfer, derive their origin from the
Tobbai r 1 the situation which they occupy is 23 farsangs
N.W. of Sand.
Annan. On the way to the last, are Amran, a town and mount, and
Turba, near which, one day from the capital, is the fruitful,
well-watered plain of Jiraf, which is covered with gardens
and the country-houses of the people of San'a. 2
Kaukeban. A little way south-westward is the mountain district of
Kaukeban and the capital of the same name. The latter
contains a strong castle and an academy founded by Sherif-
ed-din. Six miles eastward of the town is the bazar and for
tress of Towailah, and one day further the town of Favil.
Extent of San'a. With the exception of the small tracts of Yerim, Kataba,
and Ta'ez, the territory of San'a includes the whole country
from Haschid-el-Bekil, south-eastward to the Arabian Sea,
where it terminates with that of Aden.
The strip belonging to Belad Aden commences with Bab-
el-Mandeb, and gradually widens as it extends eastward from
Tehameh. At first Jebel Arah bounds it on the northern
side, and then Jebel Yafa'i, a very high range of mountains,
which, for the remainder of the distance, separates it from the
territory of San' a, the coast being the limit on the southern
side as far as its termination at Has Seilan, a distance from
Bab-el-Mandeb of 130 miles. 3 It is chiefly a plain, occupied
by the Subeihi, the Akrabi, the Abd Ali, and Yafa 'i tribes.
1 Arabic Geo. MS., translated by Dr. Aloys Sprenger. 8 Ibid.
8 Chart and Memoir of Captain Haines, I.N., vol. IX. of the Royal Geo
graphical Journal,