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Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
In+} the book of Al-Kalkaskendy, so often quoted by inc, it is
stated that “ the Benoo Bely are of the race of Kuda’ft of the
Kaht&niye. The patrial noun from their name is Belawy. They
are of the posterity of Bely, son of Amroo (Amru), son of
Al-Harith (Harith), son of Kuda’a (Kuclha’ah).* The author of
Mesalik Al-Ahsar says:—“ Their abodes are now in Dama,
which is the land between ’Uioon Al-Kasab and Akra (Akra), at
the mouth of the defile (fumm Al-Madik); and the escort of the
pilgrims through this land devolves upon them. Part of them
dwell in Upper Egypt.” Al-Hamdany (Hamdam) says, “ their
dwelling places are in Aklimim, (Akhrmm), and in the land south
of that town.” The’Uioon Al-Kasab and Al-Akra (Akra) are
by Ibn Ayas, in his book entitled Nashk Al-Azhar, described to
be “ pilgrim stations on the shore of the Red Sea.” He
continues—“ In the ’Uioon Al-Kasab there are springs of running
water, around which grows the Persian reed. It is a resting
place for the pilgrims, who pitch their tents on the bank and bathe
themselves and wash their clothes in the springs. This is the spot
of which the poet speaks when saying—
“ My friends, do not forget your vows to the homeless youth,
Whose companion is sorrow, and whose eyes are wet with tears:
He remembered his vows to you on the way to Al-Higaz,
And neither in Al-’Uioon nor in Akra did he taste of slumber.”
In a list of the pilgrim-stations on the Egyptian road given by
an author named Ilafidh Ahmad, in a ‘Historical Compendium
of Egypt,’! the ’Uioon Al-Kasab is mentioned as the first station
north of Muweilah. That station at the present day is only known
under the abbreviated form of its name, Al-’Uioon, as the
Arabian poet quoted also calls it, hut there can be no doubt about
its identity with the ’Uioon Al-Kasab of the geographers. Akra
(Akra) (in the list of Ahmed erroneously written Akra, Akrah),
which is the first station south of al-Wcgh (Wejh) is placed on
the map of Arabia by Bergliaus in the mouth of a mountain defile
(fumm Al-Madik). ’Uioon Al-Kasab and Akra are the limits
assigned to Wadi Dama, and to the possessions of the Bely tribe
in former times. The present boundaries of the district, through
which, as belonging to them, the Beni Bely are hound to escort
the Egyptian pilgrims, are, as before mentioned, Dhoba (Dhoba)
and Wegli (Wejh), and of this that part only lying between
Dhoba and Istabl ’Antar, which is now called Wadi Dama.
The first inhabitants of Al-Harra were, as I have noticed,
* The Beni Bely are of the Hamyaric stock of Koda’d, the son of Hamyar, the
son of Saba, the son of Yaslihab, the son of Ya’rab, the son of If ahtan (Joktan), the
son of ’Aabar [Eber], the son of Sftlili, or Shalih [Salak], the son of Arfahsliadh
[Arphaxad], the son of Sam [Shem), the son of Nooah [Noah], Poe. Spec. 42;
and Aboo-l-Feda, ad ealcem, Poc. 471, 423.—A.
f No. 9972 of the Brit Mus. MSS.—W.
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