Note 143 — Chapter XII

Jennings Bramly Bey, the Senior Inspector of Berber Province, who has kindly favoured me with some useful criticisms of this chapter, remarks: “My experience up to date is that each principal man has a different idea of his own boundaries and that those ideas differ from day to day. My impression is that the Bisharin are as yet one big family, and that the grazing is ample for all so that the boundaries are very vague between the different tribes. Disputes of course do arise as to the possession of wadis, but I find that a week after a certain wadi has been allotted to one of two tribes, both tribes are amicably grazing in it side by side without payment. The ownership of wells is more strictly defined.”