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The chief place of the Ghamed tribe is Mokhowa, a town not to be confounded with Mokha. El Roheyta, of the powerful tribe of Shomran. Adama, of the Shomran Arabs. Tabala, of the Shomran Arabs, who extend over both sides of the mountains in the W. and E. plain. El Hasba, market of the Shomran Arabs. El Asabely, a village of the Asabely tribe.
The country about Mokhowa is very fertile, and inhabited by the three tribes of Beni Selym, Beni Seydan, and Beni Aly: the two latter had submitted to the Wahabys, and were commanded by Tamy, the Sheikh of Asyr. There are likewise at Mokhowa many of the Beni Ghamed tribe.
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. Wady Aly, in the same district. Meshnye, on the S. borders of Zohran. Raghdan, a market-place of the Ghamed Arabs. Korn el Maghsal, of the Ghamed Arabs. Al Zahera, of the same Arabs.
Esserrar, of the Thekyf Arabs. 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.
Some are very considerable tribes, such as Zohran, Ghamed, Shomran, Asyr, and Abyda, of whom each can muster from six to eight thousand firelocks: their principal strength consists in matchlocks. Horses are but few in these mountains; yet the Kahtan, Refeydha, and Abyda tribes, who likewise spread over the plain, possess the good Koheyl breed.
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