Note 81 — XXII BRITISH INFLUENCE IN ARABIA
Reading edition
The following tribes in the vicinity of Aden receive (or received) annual subsidies from the British Government:
Tribe. Estimated Population.
Abdali 15,000
Fadhli 25,000
Akrabi 800
Subaihi 20,000
Haushabi 6,000
Alawi 1,500
Amir 30,000
Yaffai 35,000
Thus the total estimated population of these tribes is 133,300 and the total amount of the annual stipend paid them in 1877, was 12,000 German crowns. (Hunter’s “Aden,” p. 155.)