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One cavern at Dirbat is 150' x 5c/ x 30'. A few have guns, the rest
use iion swords, daggers, and even pointed throwing sticks. They
carry a shield which serves also as a hat or water bucket or stool as
desired. They quarrel and fight amongst themselves, and are a restless
irresponsible lot, but are not a resolute or really dangerous tribe. They
may annoy their neighbours by damaging their crops at night, but they
never attack settled villages.
1 heir principal divisions are :
Beit 'Ak'ak, at Rakhyut, 150 fighting men.
Bara/amah, in Samhan hills, behind Salalah, 160 fighting men.
Beit Hardan, in the hills near Rakhyut, 70 fighting men.
Beit Tsa, at Rakhyut, 80 fighting men.
Beit Jabub, in the hills, 160 fighting men.
Beit Qatan, in the hills, 150 fighting men.
Beit Ka'bdb, in the hills.
Beit Kishob, in the hills, 170 fighting men.
Kathob or Ma'ashani at Taqa, and in the hills about Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dirbat, 700 fighting men.
Beit Sa id, in the hills behind Hasiki, 300 fighting men.
Shamasah at Rakhyut, 90 fighting men.
Beit Tabok, in the hills, 170 fighting men.
Beni (or Ahl) 'Umr, at Murbat and in the hills near by, 1 ,200
fighting men.
1 his section is friendly to the Sultan of Oman, and has a subsection,
Beit Makhayyir.
147. Al Bu Qarein (sing. Qareini).
A tribe of the Oman Sultanate, numbering 400 souls ; Ibadhi in
religion, Hinawi in politics ; settled at Dhiyan and Hajeirah in Batinah.
Some at Hajeirah are Bedouins.
148. Qateit (sing. Qateiti).
A tribe of the Oman Sultanate, very few in number ; Sunni in
religion, Hinawi in politics. Settled in Khaburah town.
149. Qawd'id (sing. Qa'idi).
A Bedouin tribe of Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , numbering 250 souls. They
range round about Shokah in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ham ; some of them cultivate
a little, and are semi-settled at Shokali. They are believed by some to
be an off-shoot of the Mazari', but this is doubtful.
150. Qawasim One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. or Jawdsim (sing. Qdsimi or Jdsimi).
This is the family or small tribe to which the ruling sheikh of Sharjah
belongs; it claims descent from the prophet Mohammed. Outside
1 rucial Oman the subjects of Sharjah are sometimes spoken of as Jawasim,