Sheher

Once again, 'Sheher' is a highly disturbing situational number plagued by the shades darkness and negativity.

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A daughter of Salàh's married Manassar, and another of them was married to one of Manassar's sons, and Manassar's brother Hussein of Sheher married, or was married to, a third daughter of Salàh.

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Thus travelling is difficult unless you have paid _siyar_, and a relation of the _siyara_ is kept in prison at Sheher.

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In the meantime we had been planning to get our most urgently needed things ready to load on the horses and to walk to Sheher, only sixty-five miles -- but such miles!

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Gabrein, go on to Gaffit, and thence turn eastward to Sheher.

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We talked over the plan of sending to Sheher, and decided that doing so meant much pay to the messenger, thirty or forty more dollars

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One of the first people to greet us was the _nàkhoda_ of the ship on which we had gone to Aden from Sheher.

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He dressed very well in various damask silk coats and faultless trousers of Indian cut, his swords and daggers sparkled with jewels, in his hand he flourished a golden-headed cane, and as the water is hard at Sheher, he sends his dirty linen in dhows to Bombay to be washed.

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There had been great trouble with the Hamoumi, and only three months before two soldiers had been killed about half a mile from Sheher.

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Mia and Hussein Mia dared not go to Inbula or anywhere outside their walls without forty or fifty men, and when Salàh's daughter, who is married to the seyyid, came to Sheher, she had to come by a circuitous route, with an escort of five hundred men.

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