Narrative of the residence of Fatalla Sayeghir among the wandering Arabs of the great desertLamartine, Alphonse de
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Narrative of the residence of Fatalla Sayeghir among the wandering Arabs of the great desert
Lamartine, Alphonse de
Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel
El-Salkeh | Ali Eben Geraimess | 3,000 | 30,000
El-Messahid | Nehaiman Eben Fehed | 3,500 | 35,000
El-Sabha | Mohdi Eben Heïd | 4,000 | 40,000
Benni Dehabb | Chatti Eben Harab | 5,000 | 50,000
El-Fekaka | Astaoui Eben Tayar | 1,500 | 15,000
El-Hamamid | Chatti Eben Faress | 1,500 | 15,000
El-Daffir | Auad Eben Motlac | 2,300 | 23,000
El-Hegiager | Sellamé Eben Barac | 800 | 8,000
El-Khrezahel | Khrenkiar El-Alimy | 3,000 | 30,000
Benni Tay | Hamdi Eben Tamer | 4,000 | 40,000
El-Huarig | Habac Eben Mahdan | 3,500 | 35,000
El-Mehazez | Redaini Eben Khronkiar | 6,000 | 60,000
El-Berkazè | Sahdoun Eben Wuali | 1,300 | 13,000
El-Nahimm | Faheh Eben Saleh | 300 | 3,000
Bouharba | Alyan Eben Nadjed | 500 | 5,000
+----------+----------
| 102,000 | 1,020,000
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] According to Arab law, murder is compensated by money; and the sum
is fixed according to circumstances.
[B] This bottle was taken with all the rest into Egypt.
[C] An Arabic expression implying extent of dominion.
[D] A title of a Turkish officer, used in derision by the Bedouins.
[E] Turban of ceremony, (Turkish.)
[F] Destroyer of the Turks.
[G] Every Bedouin accustoms his horse to some sign when it is to put
out all its speed. He employs it only on pressing occasions, and never
confides the secret even to his own son.
[H] A pun not easy to translate: _Serah_ means gone; _Serhan_, wolf.
[I] When a Bedouin voluntarily gives up his horse to his adversary, he
may neither kill him nor make him prisoner.
[J] Ebn Sihoud, King of the Wahabees, is often called by this name.
[K] This imaginary princess was no other than lady Hester Stanhope.
[L] The ceremony is called the _hasnat_.
[M] These chiefs were, Zarack Ebn Fahrer, chief of the tribe El
Gioullan; Giarah Ebn Meghiel, chief of the tribe El Giahma; Ghaleb Ebn
Ramdoun, chief of the tribe El Ballahiss; and Fares Ebn Nedged, chief
of the tribe El Maslekher.
[N] Female camels of the most beautiful species.
[O] An equestrian exercise with sticks, called djerids, which are
lanced like javelins.
[P] The tribe El Krassa, whose chief was Zahaman Ebn Houad; the tribe
El Mahlac, with its chief Ebn Habed; the tribe El Meraikhrat, its chief
Roudan Ebn Abed; and the tribe El Zeker, its chief Matlac Ebn Fayhan.
[Q] Fares Ebn Aggib, chief of the tribe El Bechakez, with five hundred
tents; Cassan Ebn Unkban, chief of the tribe El Chiamssi, one thousand
tents; Selame Ebn Nahssan, chief of the tribe El Fuaher, six hundred
tents; Mehanna el Saneh, chief of the tribe El Salba, eight hundred
tents.
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