en. XXIV.] Aiiazch Tribes. 



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arc divided into the following- sections, cacli 

 under command of its own Sheykh : — 



TBNTS. 



GomUbssa. Beteyen ibn Mcrshid ... 1000 



Remlliii ... ... ... -,00 



Abadiit ... ... ... ;,()() 



Dvcim ... ... ... r»00 



Menekha. Ibn Kardiish 500 



Modyuja. Ferhan ibn Hedeb 500 



Ammamt ... ... 500 



N. B. — The Mmah, Sheykh jMohammed, is a section of the 

 Eesallin. 



TENTS. 



3. Ihn Hdddal, a numerous and po^vcrful tribe, whose 



Sheykh, Abd ul Mekhsin ibn Heniasdi, is con- 

 sidered the noblest in point of blood of any in 

 the desert {Ibn Meziad of the Hesenneh only 

 excepted).* They are rich and powerful and 

 possess numerous mares 4000 



4. Hesenneh. Once the leading tribe of the Anazeh, 



but destroyed by a combination against them 

 about sixty years ago of the Sebaa and the Roala. 

 The family of their Sheykh, Faris ibn Meziad, is 

 accounted the noblest in point of blood of any 

 in the desert. The tribe now lives under Turkish 

 protection near Damascus, and number perhaps 500 



5. Roala, or Jeldas. The most numerous, wealthiest, 



and most powerful tribe of the Anazeh. Though 

 the whole tribe is generally known as the Rodla, 

 this name only properly applies to a single sec- 

 tion. The family of their Sheykh, Sotamm ibn 

 Shaalan, is the most important, tliough not the 

 most ancient, in the desert. In it the slieykhdom 



* The Ibn Haddal and the Sebaa according to Burckhardt wore 

 originally part of one same tribe called the Bishar, whence pro- 

 bably the name Jebel Bishari below Deyr. 



