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APPENDIX VII. 
PEDIGREE OF THE SHEIKH SFDI A'HMED EL BAKA'Y. 
Sidi 'ITkba, son of 'Omar with the surname El Mustajab, 
the great conqueror of Barbary. 
Sakera. 
Yadruba. 
Said. 
f Abd el Kerim. 
Mohammed. 
Yakhsha. 
Doman. 
Yahia. 
'All. 
Sidi A'hmed, or Mohammed, el Kunti, born of a Limtuna 
mother called Yagedash. He is said to have died in Fask, 
a district W. of Shingit. 
Sidi A'hmed el Bakay, died in Walata. 
Sidi 'Omar e' Sheikh, is said to have changed the cruel 
custom, prevailing in the family before him, of murdering 
all the (male) children except one, — and to have left all his 
three sons alive. For this reason it is that his name occupies 
a prominent position in El Bakay's poem. He was a great 
friend of f Abd el Kerim ben Mohammed el Maghili, and 
is said to have visited, in his company, the learned Sheikh 
e' Soytiti in Egypt. He is said to have died A. H. 960 
(A. d. 1553), in the district of Gidi or I'gidi, E. of the 
Sakiet el hamra. 
Sidi el Wafi, although Sidi 'Omar's second son, succeeded 
