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ARABIA. 1

Large areas in Arabia consist only of desert and steppe, occupied by Bedouin tribes, who are forced to adopt a nomadic existence and own allegian *e only to their tribal groups. Considerable portions of the Neftid, or Northern Saud-belt, and the whole of the Ruba el-Khali, or Southern Desert of soft sand, are quite uninhabitable, although they supply good grazing at certain seasons. There are many tribal communities, settled, half settled, and nomadic, who giv«- effective allegiance only to their own chiefs. They are to be found niaiuly iu the Hinterland of Yemen, in the Asir Highlands, in the interior of Oman, and all rouud the northern fringe of the Nefad desert, which divides Arabia proper from the Syrian Desert or Hamad. But the oases of Central Arabia and the fertile coastal districts are occupied by settled communities, under eight independent

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