- 13 - AL BU SAID This is the tribe of the Sultans of Muscat and Oman. The present Sultan is head of it and automatically their Tamimah. The people are scattered and number about two thousand with about four hundred rifles outside the Sultan's military and personal resources. Most of them are poor and employed in cultivation. Some are goldsmiths, especially in Nizwa and Manah, The old tribal capital is Adam and small settlements are found in Manah, Nizwa, Izki, Samail, Sohar, Sib, Boshar, Matrah and there are, of course the Sultan's relations in Muscat. About three hundred are settled in Zanzibar as cultivators, and some as traders. The Sultan has appointed many of his Walis from this tribe. They are allied with the Janabah and Duru and do not a ppear to be at fued with any tribe. The title "Saiyid" is officially reserved to the Sultan's close relatives, though many use it. In recent years the Sultan has given up the title himself and prefers to style himself simply as "Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman". SHARA This is the oldest tribe of the three tribes in Dhofar District, and may be aboriginal. The people speak a dialect called Kazrat (so named by the Arabs from its "sizzling" sound). The people are completely primitive and wear few cloths, living except for a few in Salalah, exclusively in caves in the Samhan hills. They have a reputation for thieving and treachery, but at present seem to be living quietly enough, Crime is in fact extremely rare in Dhofar where the Sultan and his trusted Wali keep close touch with the people, The Sharas live by cattle, sheep and goat rearing, and the procurement of frankincense, though this indistry has very greatly declined in modern times, owing, it is thought, to more readily accessible substitutes. The Shara take no part in tribal politics and are neither Ghafiri nor Hinawi. Their Tamimah is Ajhan bin Faraj, and their numbers may be one or two thousand with about six hundred primitive rifles and sworda or knives. EL SHIHUH The tribal capital is said to be Khassab, but the tribe itself is widely scattered over the whole Ru'us al Jibal district of the Sultanate. They number about eight thousand and may possess about fifteen hundred rifles. Those settled on the coast live by fishing, pearling (in the Persian Gulf) and date cultivation where possible. Those in the hills of the Interior rear goats and poultry, and grow grain. They have their own dialect or language called Shihuiyah, but they also know Arabic. They used to be at feud with the Dhahuriyin, but this tribe is even more primitive and now nearly extinct. It is composed almost entirely of fishermen, who migrato wholesale from their villages to cooler places in the summer. The Shaikh of Khassab in 1930 defied the Sultan and refused to allow H.M.S. "Ormonde" to land survey parties. H.M.S. Lupin and Cyclamen with the Sultan's gun-boat "Al Said shelled the place and the Shaikh was made a State prisoner, and his son, Hamdan, appointed in his place, but not as Tamimah. There is now no recognised Tamimah, but the most important Shaikh of the Beni Shatair sub-section
