"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي، من يناير ١٨٤٧ حتى مايو ١٨٤٩. تحرير السكرتير. المجلد VIII." [‎١‎٧‎٧] (٤٩٦/٢٨٦)

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BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Art. YIII.— Memoir on the Western or Edoor Tribes, inhabiting the
Somali Coast of N, E. Africa; with the Southern Branches of the
Family of Darrood, resident on the banks of the Webbi Shebeyli, com
monly called the River Webbi. By Lieutenant C. J. Cruttenden, In
dian Navy, Assistant Political Agent at Aden.—Dated Aden, 10th
April, 1848.
[Presented by Government.]
Durino the time that I was employed at the wreck of the East In
dia Company’s Steam Frigate Memnon, at Ras Asseyr, on the N. E.
coast of Africa, I employed myself in obtaining what information I
could relative to the Tribes on the coast, which I had the honor to for
ward to Government on my return. As, however, I have since that
time had further opportunities of visiting the different branches of the
Somali tribes, I now beg to offer a few remarks in addition, relative
chiefly to those tribes inhabiting the African coast westward from
Burnt Island, and distinguished amongst the windward tribes as the
“ Edoor.”
From Ras Hafoon, on the eastern coast, to Zeyla, the country is known
by the name of the Bur-e-Somal, and it is divided into two great na
tions, who, both tracing their origin from the Arab province of Hadra-
mant, are yet at bitter and endless feud with each other. The principal
of these two great families is that to the eastward, or windward of