Sultan Deria ruled that blood payment or mag was sufficient for both parties to exchange at the shir with the Rer Guled losing six and the Abdi Bari six as well.

[7] Lix nin oo mankiyo shaalka iyo midhaha Guuleed ah Oo wada ma dhaafta ah raggii ugu maloongeeyey Inaan waliba maal ugu daraa waa masalo dhaafe Waligeed markaha looma culin magannu soocnaaye Waa waxaanay dhagahaygu maqal maanta ka horoowe Inaanaan cayuun soo madhayn mudhayo dhaadheer leh Haddaynu Reer Mataan nahay sidaa waydun maan garane Six men who are the buds, the shawl and the fruit (youth) of Guuleed Who together were the best, most excellent of men That I add wealth to that is beyond the pale We’ll never purify the vessel with blood compensation which we have separated off This is something my ears have never heard before today That we empty [our hands] of very tall camels If we are Reer Mataan you will follow my thinking Sultan Deria responded by sending Hussein away to Berbera and then resuming the shir.

I have the honour to enclose a translation of a letter from the Mullah Muhammad Abdullah to the Aidagalleh, as a specimen of the manner in which he has been trying to seduce the tribes from their allegiance to us.

[10]It appears that Deria heeded the call for support as the Sultan instigated a major insurrection in the town of Hargeisa as well as supplying Abdullah Hassan with vital information.

The late Assistant Resident at Berbera had a case brought before him in which a part of the Eidegale tribe had thrown off allegiance to Sultan Deria, and when his intervention was successful, one of the terms proposed by the delinquents themselves was that they would stand before him as a recognition of their return to his control.