2. Kura, a small village on the summit of the mountain so called.
3. Tayf.
4. Abbasa, in the district of the Thekyf Arabs.
5. Melawy Djedara, district of the Beni Sad Arabs.
6. Mekhra, district of the Naszera Arabs. The principal village of the
Beni Sad tribe is Lagham, and of the Naszera tribe, Sour; distant one
day N. of the farthest limits of Zohran. In this district is also the
fortified village of Bedjeyle.
7. Esserrar, of the Thekyf Arabs.
8. Berahrah, on the N. extremity of Zohran, a district inhabited by
Arabs of the same name. This Zohran is one of the most fertile countries
in the mountainous chain, although its villages are separated from each
other by intervals of barren rock. It is inhabited by the Zohran tribes
of Beni Malek and Beni Ghamed. The Zohran chief, Bakhroudj, having
bravely resisted Mohammed Aly Pasha, was taken by surprise, in March
1815, and cruelly cut to pieces by that Turkish general's order.
9. Wady Aly, in the same district.
10. Meshnye, on the S. borders of Zohran.
11. Raghdan, a market-place of the Ghamed Arabs.
12. Korn el Maghsal, of the Ghamed Arabs.
13. Al Zahera, of the same Arabs. These two tribes of Zohran and Ghamed
possess the Hedjaz (viz. the mountains) and adjoining districts in
Tehama, or the Western plain [p.446] towards the sea, as well as the
Eastern upper plain. The chief place of the Ghamed tribe is Mokhowa, a
town not to be confounded with Mokha.
