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The Jacobites are mentioned, but most of the political machinations involve interclan jockeying.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

Since then, anti-Taliban patrols by tribesmen have reportedly ground to a halt over fears they could worsen interclan tensions.

From Time • May 18, 2010

It is truly surprising, considering the lack of tribal and interclan cohesion in Man�boland, that such occurrences are not more frequent or even continual.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

There is no doubt, in my mind, but that the whole eastern quarter of Mindan�o would flame out into interclan warfare, were it not for the efficient form of government now established there.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Had Paft's death resulted in some interclan quarrel over the heirship and the other clans withdrawn to let the various contendents for that honor fight it out?

From Plague Ship by Norton, Andre