no TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
gier, took poflfeffion of Tunis. The Mohammedan power, on 
the North and Weft of Africa, remains divided between the 
Sherifs of Morocco and Fez, and the Turks of Algler and 
Tunis. 
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EGTPT. 
Egypt remained for a confiderable time in quiet fubjedlion 
to the Chalifs, fuccefTors of Mohammed. But their power be- 
ing on the decHne, owing to the infolence of their Turcoman 
militia, the janizaries of that period, and other caufes, this fertile 
country began to throw off the yoke. 
DYNASTY I. 
The Tholonides. 
In the year of the Hejira 265, A. D. 879, Achmed, fon.of 
Tholon or Teilun, governor of Egypt, ufurped the fovereignty 
from the Chalif Motamid-b'-illah. This fhort-lived dynafty 
expired in Sultan Haron, grandfon of the ufurper, about thirty 
years after. 
DYNASTY II. 
The Fatimites. 
The conqueft of Egypt by Abu-Tammim, Sultan of Africa, 
has been already mentioned. 
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