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FO 371/126881 1957
considerable means. The trd.be strongly supports the Sultan
and has suppled him with a force in recent disturbances.

The tribe may be divided by location into three parts:
(1) arou:zi Adan (Sharqiyah), about four mindred,
rei

11.) Masirah, about six hundred, migratory and engaged
Inenty in fishics, but these and other detachments
on the Jala' an coast towrads Dhofar, are known
to bo both robbers and wreckers. Their territory
is o: considerable interest for its oil potential.

Their scaled Tamimah, Yasir bin llamud al Majali,
aged about hirty, 3.vos at Iz. IIe visited the Sultan in 1948
and in Decerber, 1949, receiving presents on each occasion.
Ile is hinsief well off, with some good date gardens. In 1952
he visited Ibn Saud at Riyadh and on return started flying a