Crossword-Solution: MAHRI 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Kattiri tyrannise over the sultan of Siwoun and are enemies to the sultan of Shibahm; beyond them are the Minhali, who are also enemies; then the Amri and the Tamimi, who are friendly, and then come the Mahri.

Hardly had my husband put this by, when Talib came and had to be given thirty-six dollars for _siyar_ to the Mahri.

These were wicked Bedouin from the mountains, prisoners taken in a recent war he had had with the Mahri tribe, the _casus belli_ being a find of ambergris which the Mahri had appropriated, though it had been washed up on the Dhofar coast.

They only tap the most promising ones, and those that grow farther west in the Mahri country, as they produce an inferior quality, are not now tapped at all.

The second in quality comes from near Cape Risout, and also a little farther west, at a place called Chisen, near Rakhiout, frankincense of a marketable quality is obtained, but that farther west in the Mahri country is not collected now, being much inferior.