1 88 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.di.lix.
LIX Tasm dwelt in el Yemama as far as Bahrayn; and Tasm and
the 'Amalik and Omaym^ and Gashim were Arab peoples, speaking the Arabic tongue [. Now 'Abil reached Yathreb] before it {i.e. the town) was built.
LX And most of the 'Amalik settled in Sana'a before it was so named.
LXI Aram son of Sam son of Nuh begot 'Awad and 'Abir and Huwayl. 'Awad begot 'Abir and 'Ad and 'Abil.
LXI I 'Abir son of Aram begot Thammud and Gidays ; and they were Arabs, speaking this Egyptian tongue, and the Arabs used to
call these nations and Gurhum "the 'Arab el 'Ariba," and the descendants of Isma'il they used to name "the 'Arab el Muta'ariba."
LXIII 'Ad were in Hadramaut, and Thammud in the rocky country between el Hegaz^ and Syria [as far as Wadi el Kura, Gidays] joined Tasm and lived with them in el Yemama as far as Bahrayn. And the name of el Yemama at that time was Gau. And Gashim dwelt^ in 'Oman.
LXIV The Nebt were descended from Nebit son of Mash son of Aram son of Sam.
LXV The Persians [el Furs] are the descendants of Paris son of Tirash son of Mashur son of Laudh son of Sam.
LXVI Arfakhshadh son of Sam begot Kaynan"^, and Kaynan^ begot Shalikh, and Shalikh begot 'Abir, and 'Abir begot Faligh and also Kahtan and Yunan; and Kahtan begot Ya'arub [and Yukzan,] and Ya'arub begot Yashgub [, and Yashgub begot] Saba, and Saba begot
Himyar and Kahlan and 'Amr and el Asha'ar and Anmar and Murr.
LXVI I 'Amr son of Saba begot 'Adi, and 'Adi begot Lakhm and Gudham.
LXVIII [Now Ya'arub and] Yukzan settled in el Yemen, and were its earliest inhabitants and the first to be greeted with the words
"mayest thou avoid execration."
LXIX Faligh begot Ar'u^ and Ar'u^ begot [Sarugh, who begot Nahur, who begot Tarikh, in Arabic called] Azar, and Azar begot Ibrahim, (upon whom be the blessing of God).
LXX Arfakhshadh begot Nimrudh ; and [Hashim ibn el Kelbi states that] el Sind and el Hind were the children of Tukir son of Yuktan
son of 'Abir son of Shalikh son of Arfakhshadh son of Sam.
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