'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎178] (287/496)

Burnt Island. It is divided into four large and three smaller tribes, as
follows the Mijirtheyn, the Ahl Oor Sungeli or Wur Sungeli, the
Dultahutah, and the Ahl Agahdur, forming the chief branches. Murrey-
han, Grirrhi, and Burtirrhi, the smaller ones. They claim as their com
mon father Darrood, the son of Ismail, the son of Okeil, the son of
Arab, who came from Hadramant, and, marrying a daughter of the Ha-
weea tribe, residing on the N. E. coast of Africa, became the first Ma-
homedan founder of the Somali nation to the eastward—a nation
extending to bunder Jedid or Burnt island to the eastward, and reach
ing as far as the northern Webbi river, or the Shebeyli to the southward.
The second of these two nations extends from Burnt island, or bunder
Jedid, to Zeyla, and is divided into three great tribes, namely, the Ha
ber Gierhajis, the Haber Awul, and the Habertel Jahleh, (Haber mean
ing the sons of,) who were the children of Isaakh by three wives—the
said Isaakh having crossed over from Hadramant some time after his
countryman had founded the nation to the eastward, and settled at the
town of Meyet, near Burnt island, where his tomb exists to this day.
Isaakh, finding his influence on the increase, owing to his intermarriage
with a Galla tribe, made a sudden descent upon the neighbourhood of
Berbera, then in the hands of a celebrated Galla chieftain, Sultan
Harrireh (whose residence in a cave is still shewn, not far from Berbera,)
and succeeded in obtaining possession of the country as far as Zeyla.
The eldest branch, the Haber Gerhajis, was put in possession of the
frontier mountains of Koobis and Woghur to the southward, and the
other two brothers were placed on either side of them, the Haber
Awul establishing themselves on the lowlands from Berbera to Zeyla,
and Habertel Jahleh locating themselves at Kurrum, Enterad, Unkor,
and Heis, four small ports to the eastward of Berbera. The Patriarch,
Isaakh, was gathered to his fathers at a very advanced age, and was buri
ed at the town of Meyet, leaving behind him a name which is honored
and respected to this day.
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The tract of country thus subdued yet remains in the hands of the
posterity of Isaakh. The Galla tribes of the Esa Somal, and Gidr
Beersi, to the westward, professed the faith of Islam, and were permitted
to retain their possessions. Of these tribes, the Gidr Beersi limit the
Hebrawul to the westward, and are themselves bounded by the Esa
Somal, a very numerous horde, nominal Mahomedans, who extend as
far as Hurrur to S. S. W., and to the borders of the Weima and Dunkali