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(ii.) DAKSHURI GROUP.
Village.
Number of
families.
Population.
Chief.
10. Areas
5
500
Mohomed Salih.
11. Karjaus
11
1,200
Ibrahim Agha Bedr-ud-Din.
12. Raman
8
600
Mohomed-ul-Hajji Agha.
13. Hasan Kaif
3
800
Habib-us-Suadillah.
14. Hassar
15
750
Ismail.
15. Gulika
5
300
Salih ibn Saroka.
16. Habasbani
12
700
‘Izz-ud-Din ibn Mohomed Salih
Agha.§
17. Shamikha
7
600
Rashid.
(iii.) MAHALEMI GROUP.
Village.
N umber of
families.
Population.
Chief.
18. Mabalemil
23
2,500
Khalil Bey and Hasan Bey.*
Of these tribes the two most important conbinations were that mxler
‘Ali Batti, who controlled the Aliks, Seyida, Dermamnka, Saliha, and
Mizizak, and that under Izz-ud-Din, who commanded the allegiance of the
Karjaus, Raman, and Habasbani. ‘Ali Batti could put into the field 2,000
men, of whom 1,000 would be armed with modern rifles of small bore, with
200 or 300 rounds of ammunition a rifle; ‘Izz-ud-Din j could call out 1,500
men, of whom 800 would have modern rifles.
§ 4.— The Kurds in Upper Kurdistan.
The upper part of northern Kurdistan is hounded on the north-west,
between Erzerum and Lake Van, by a range of mountains of which the
§ Resident at Qasr; unpopular because of his exactions from his people ami
reported to be Turcophile.
t ‘Abd-ul-Kerim, a chief of the MahaU, told Major Noel that fourteen generations
ago, when one of his great-grandfathers, Shawali, was alive, the tribe was called
the Mitowri and that they lived near Erzerum in the district known as I abakchur.
These Kurds speak Arabic in preference to Kurdish, and claihi to be of Arab origin ;
they state that they were formerly called the Bani Halal and that they occupied a
tract of country to the south of Nisibin. Many years ago, several consecutive years
of famine broke up the tribe; one branch remained in Kurdistan and the other
emigrated to Tunis.
* Resident at Kafr Kowar; both of them appeared to be strongly Turcophile.