This was a formidable year for the Fukara: they were in dread of Ibn Rashîd; they feared also that Kheybar would be barred to them, —“Kheybar the patrimony of Annezy,” from whence those tribes in the South eat (the date fruit), eight in the twelve months. Besides it was a year of locusts. The tribesmen disputed in the mejlis, “should they go up anew to the Hauran,” the land of bread; and that which they call, (nearly as nomad Israel coming from the lower deserts,) “The good Land of the North, where is milk enough;” this is Shàm or High Syria. They would remain as before in the Niggera (Batanea,) which is in the marches of their kinsmen the northern half-tribe of W. Aly: they count it fifteen removes, journeying with all their cattle and families, beyond Teyma. They had few years before forsaken their land upon this occasion: the Fejîr in a debate with their sister tribe, the southern W. Aly, had set upon them at Dàr el-Hamra, and taken their camels. Many were slain, and the mishandled kinsmen, appealing to Ibn Rashîd, the Prince gave judgment that satisfaction be made.