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660 THE GHOR AND WADI ‘ARABAH
this region and who, in summer, seek the comparative relief
of the higher slopes, occupying their upland tribal territory
in the mountains on either flank.
The distribution of the Arab tribes fluctuates in various
districts and the statistics of early authorities are unreliable.
The following incomplete table of tribes is compiled from
Schumacher's maps 1908-11, from various articles, and from
A tribal Handbook of Syria. 1
The Eastern Ghor :
The Sukhur el-Ghor, about the Yarmuk and W. eRArab,;
they also cultivate the district of Delhamiyeh, in
the Western Ghor.
The Ya‘qub el-Fadil and the Raja, about the W. el-‘Arab
district.
The Beni Sakhr, about Tell el-Arba‘m.
The Balawaneh, about the lower W. Rajib.
The Mashalkha and the ‘Abbad, about the lower N. ez-Zerqa.
The Western Ghbr :
The Sukhur, the Hamadi, and the Beshatwi, between
W. el-Bireh and Beisan plain.
The Siyr and the Ghazzawiyeh, in the Bieisan district.-
The Masa id, about W. Ear‘ah.
The K abneh el- £ Aujeh, about W. el-Aujeh.
The Ghawarneh, in the plain of Jericho.
The Sawarhereh, about Jericho and Nebi Musa.
The ‘Ubeidiyeh and the Ta‘amireh, from the Jordan mouth
to Ras Feshkhah.
The Rasha’ideh, about £ Ain Jidi.
The Beni Sakhr are the most powerful of these and they
now constitute the chief tribe of the southern trans-Jordan
country. The Bedouin of the Ghor are cultivators and
stock raisers some tribes having a proportion of low class
fellahin. Certain of the lower class tribes, such as the
Ghazzawiyeh and the Ghawarneh, have become fellahin and
are tenant cultivators of the state lands. An estimate of the
numbers occupying the Ghdr proper, at any one time of the
1 Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo ; provisional edition, 1918.
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