Crossword-Solution: CAIDS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When Ben Râana came north with other Caids, bidden to the Governor's ball in Algiers, he paid DeLisle a visit.

And he, my father, is an enlightened man, with broader views and more knowledge of the world than most Caids of the south.

That Lella Mabrouka and Sanda would be there was a matter of course; and, besides them, there were the wives and daughters of two or three sheikhs and caids, all of whom Sanda already knew by sight, as they had paid ceremonious visits to the great man's harem since her arrival at Djazerta.

From them come the merchants, the _ulemas_, the _tholbas_, the caids, the pashas; they possess the rich palaces, the great harems, beautiful women, and hidden treasures.

Caravans were attacked, merchants robbed, caids maltreated, the Sultan’s soldiers poniarded; no one dared any more to cross that part of the country, and the few who had escaped alive from the hands of the bandits came back to the town stupefied with terror.