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74 Somal, the Ísa, Gudabirsi, Ishak, and Bursuk tribes. Darud Jabarti bin Ismail bin Akil (or Ukayl) is supposed by his descendants to have been a noble Arab from Al-Hijaz, who, obliged to flee his country, was wrecked on the north-east coast of Africa, where he married a daughter of the Hawiyah tribe: rival races declare him to have been a Galla slave, who, stealing the Prophet's slippers, was dismissed with the words, Inná-tarad-ná-hu (verily we have rejected him): hence his name Tarud or Darud, the Rejected. The etymological part of the story is, doubtless, fabulous; it expresses however, the popular belief that the founder of the eastward or windward tribes, now extending over the seaboard from Bundir Jadid to Ras Hafun, and southward from the sea to the Webbes, was a man of ignoble origin. The children of Darud are now divided into two great bodies: "Harti" is the family name of the Dulbahanta, Ogadayn, Warsangali and Mijjarthayn, who call themselves sons of Harti bin Kombo bin Kabl Ullah bin Darud: the other Darud tribes not included under that appellation are the Girhi, Berteri, Marayhan, and Bahabr Ali. The