1 428 SPEEN TEREENS.
2 ESng Dever interferes with lum, mept to call Sot the iervioe p£ hii *
3 oontingeDt, or hia personal attendance at oanrt. •
4 The number of inhabitants of fisheen may be guessed at or
5 ten thousand families.
6 A great part of the po'pulation consists of Sytids, whose habits and
7 employments are the same as those of the Tcreens. In common
8 with the wholo of the prophet's family, they have the reputation,
9 and, in consequence, perhaps the merit, of courage and good morals.
10 The Tor Tereen^ the Syuds, and some Cauker Humsauyehs, are the
11 only people in Pisheen.
12 The Speen I'ereem possess the long valley of Zawura, and the
13 open plains of Tull and Chooteeallee, countries which extend fitom
14 near Fisheen to the range of ,SolliDattn, withm amaich or two of
15 Upper Shud. . They are separated fimn the Tor Tereens by a portkm
16 of the Canker oountij^ but diey are under the anthorily of the com-
17 mon Khaun» who makes an annual journey to assapibJe their share
18 of the Teresn oontii^ent» or to leodve die fine which they generaUj
19 pay in preference io personal service. Thar manners are those of
20 the Tor Tereens, greatly mixed with those of the Cankers* m the
21 midst of whom they zesidei
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