'Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt' [‎243r] (268/470)

CLASSIFICATION OF BEDOUIN TRIBES.
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Tribes from Tayf toward Szana in Yemen.
Of these I can only speak from report, and shall here merely
notice the tribes whose territories are more particularly described
in my Arabian Travels.
From Tayf along the South-eastern plain in the direction from
North to South.
Proceeding eastward from Tayf, we find at Ossoma a tribe of
Ateybe, and at Taraba, the strong tribe of el Begoum. From thence
southward, on the back of the great chain of mountains, we find
the Beni Oklob. At Ranye are the Beni Sabya, and about Wady
Beishe the Beni Salem, whose numbers amount to five thousand
matchlocks. Southward of them are the Beni Kahtan, a large
tribe ; the strongest and most considerable between the Ateybe
and Hadramaut. They possess a good breed of horses, and their
camel-riders are the best soldiers of the southern plains.
The Beni Kahtan are subdivided into two tribes : Es-Sahdma —
whose sheikh, Gormola, was very much the friend of Saoud—and
the tribe of el Aasy, whose sheikh, Hesher, is the most renowned
warrior in the whole country.
The Beni Dowaser, a wild tribe, but little connected with any
settlers. They are great hunters of ostriches.
Of the tribes above mentioned, the Begoum, Sabya, and Beni
Salem, are partly cultivators. The Kahtan and Dowaser are ex
clusively Bedouins. The Kahtan are more rich in camels than
any Bedouins of the Eastern Desert. A person of the middle class