The principal auxiliary, when the Turks conquered the place, was a tribe of Mahometans called Belowee, ?iepherds inhabiting the coafi of the Red Sea under the mountains ef the Habab, about lat. In reward for this alfifiance, the Turks'iigave their chief the civil government of Ma fua'h and its territory, under the title of Naybe of Mafuah and, upon the hafha's being withdrawn, this officer remained in faét fovereign of the place, though, to fave appearances, he held it of the grand fign'ior for an an nual tribute, upon receivinga firman-from the Ottoman. Porte.
