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: In ascending to the prophet it gives the following 
series: 
Soliman. 
Hassen. 
Ahmed. 
Mohamed* 
Kassem. 
Ismail. 
Abdalla. 
Mouhamed. 
El Kassem. 
Ismail. 
Abulkassem. 
Mouhamed. 
Scherif. 
Mouhamed. 
Abdalla et Kamel. 
AH. 
Hassen. 
Hassan el Meschna. 
Mohamed. 
Abdalla. 
Hassen es Sebet, son 
Ali. 
Mouhamed. 
of Ali Ben Abuda- 
Jussuf. 
Aarafat. 
leb and of Fathma 
Ali. 
El Hassen. 
ez Zohra (or The 
Has sen. 
Abubekr. 
Pearl) daughter of 
Mouhamed. 
El Hassen. 
the Prophet Mouh- 
hammed. 
There are at Taffilet more than two thousand sherifs, 
who all pretend to have a right to the throne of Moroc- 
co, and who for that reason enjoy some gratifications, 
which the sultan pays them. When an interregnum 
occurs, many of them take arms, and as Morocco has 
no regular force to suppress these partial movements, 
they throw the state into great anarchy. 
There is but one kind of tactics in all their battles. 
It consists in approaching the enemy to about 500 yards 
distance, and there they deploy themselves, and endea- 
vour to extend the largest front possible; then present- 
ing their guns, they run with all their strength towards 
the enemy. Arrived at half distance, they fire off their 
guns, and stop their horses with a sudden motion of 
* Though the name of Mohamed be always written with the 
same characters in Arabian, custom has fixed different modes of 
pronunciation, as may be seen in the list, 
