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these are Anmiari, Adwani, Kuruni, Khuzuri, 

 Salahameh, and Xayyayareh ; most of thein fre- 

 quent Zanzibar during the trading season. 



The pure Ghafiri stock is still, they say, to be 

 found in Xejd. Throughout Oman they are a 

 wild unruly race, hostile to strangers, and inclined 

 to Wahhabi-ism. They possess at several places 

 little castles armed with guns which are mere 

 robbers' dens ; near Mina the Chief Musalim 

 refused allegiance to Sayyid Said, and south of 

 the Jebel el Akhzar, or 6 Green Mountain,' they 

 made themselves the terror of the country-side 

 about Buraymah. The worst of the Ghafiri are the 

 Kawasim pirates (the Anglo- Arabic ' Jowasinees') 

 of Bas el Khavmah and our old enemies the Benu 

 bu Ali of Ba'as el Hadd. To them also belong 

 the Shaksi or Benu Buwayhah, popularly called 

 Ahl Bustak, from the settlement founded by the 

 Persian Anushirawan on the eastern slope of 

 Jebel el Akhzar, the mountainous district of 

 Oman. It is about 70 miles west of Maskat, 

 which, now the capital, began life as its harbour. 

 The present representative of the Bustak chiefs, 

 Sayyid Kays bin Azan, receives an annual in- 

 demnification of $3000 from Sayyid Said, who 

 had dispossessed him of Sohar and its depend- 

 encies. Sur also belongs to the Ghafiri, of whom 5 



