sentences:  Robinson estimates, the village population was six to seven hundred people.He notes that "Beit 'Atab", as he transcribes it, was the chief town of the 'Arkub (Arqub) district and the Nazir (warden) of the district lived there.Robinson recounts that he was "a good-looking man" from the Lahaam clan, and that when they arrived in the village, he was sitting conversing with other sheikhs on a carpet under a fig tree.