ABSTRACT
So here again locality plays an important part. One tribe, although divided into five definite groups, may be all living together in one particular district. In this case each one of the tribe will know his neighbour, and in all probability any one of the five sub-sheikhs would be competent to answer for any man in any of the five groups. In another tribe of five groups, one group may have trekked off to the Tripoli coast two generations ago, and another settled on the desert fringe of the Fayoum, while the remaining three groups are living in close proximity at Matruh.
