jerafin-huwaytat

Updated: May 1, 2025

At last we sank a pit some five feet deep in a re-entering angle of the northern or smaller branch; we lined it with stone down-stream, where the flow made the loose sand fall in, and we obtained an ample and excellent supply. Doubtless it was spoiled, as soon as our backs were turned, by the half-Fellah Jerafin-Huwaytat, to whom the place belongs.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

The surveyors doubtless found difficulty in obtaining the Bedawi names for the several features, which are unknown to the citizens of the coast; but they might easily have consulted the only authorities, the Jerafin-Huwaytat, who graze their flocks and herds on and around the mountain. As usual in Arabia, the four several main "horns" are called after the Fiumaras that drain them.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

This divide, also called the Jayb el Sa'luwwah, with granites to the east, and traps mixed with granites on the west, shows signs of labour. Hard by, to the south-west, some exceptionally industrious Bedawi, of the Jerafin-Huwaytat, had laid out a small field with barley.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2