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BAJ—BAK
bajar I yah—
See 'Adai (Wadi).
BAJI (A l ) (T ribe)—
See Lam (Bani).
bajil—
A town in Yemen, situated about 32 miles from Hodeida on the road to Sana'a, and
containing about 3,000 inhabitants. It is commanded on the south side by low foothills
about a mile away from the town. There is a good and abundant supply of water from
Bir Zulail in the middle of the town. Bajil is situated in rich agricultural district, and
one of the few yielding a fairly regular asliur, or land tax. Supplies are readily obtain
able and consist of millet, sesame, and other grain, fodder, fuel, livestock, poultry,
and eggs. The town is administrared by a Tirkish Kaimakam whose district begins
just outside Hodeida, includes Obal, and extends north to Jabal Malhan.
BAKARA (J abal)—
A high hill in the northern Yemen Tihamah. It is situated close to the sea on the
northern side of Widan anchorage {q. v.),—{Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
bakara (khor)—
See Farasan (Islands and Bank); islands.
BAKHA—
See Miyah (Wadi-al).
BAKHAH—
See Ruus-al-Jibal.
BAKHAIT—
See Raudhah.
BAKHAKH—
See- 'Abbadan.
bakhakh-at-tura—
See 'Abbadan.
BAKHlT-BIN-SlLIM (B ait) —
A Bedouin section of the Al Kathir tribe (q. v.) of Dhufar.
bakhrain—
A small settlement, about six miles north-east of Makalla which is the port of the
Hadhramawt. It is the first halting-place on the road from Makalla to Shibham, and
possesses wells, some palm trees, and a bungalow belonging to the Sultan of Makalla.
Between Makalla and Bakhrain the country is arid waste, except just outside
the town where the road traverses a valley called the " Beginning of Light " in which
by the help of irrigation, bananas and cocoanut trees flourish.— {Bent; December, 1893.)
BAKIL (?) Tribe in Yemen.—
Mentioned with the Hashid.
Bakil tribe belong to the Imam Idrisi but are at present (1915) in the pay of the
Turks.
BAKIL—
A large tribal district in eastern Yemen, lying between the Yemen-Hajj route and the
Bahr-as-Safi, and apparently extending from the Sana'a district almost up to the
Wadi Najran.— {Hunter's map of Arabia.)
BAKK (B ani)—
See Aden (Protectorate.)