24.  Ali-es-Shereef, i.e. “The noble,” died in 1437, was the first to assume this name, and had, after forty years elapsed, two sons, the first, Muley Mahommed, by a concubine, and the second: 

25.  Yousef, by a legitimate wife; he retired into Arabia, where he died in 1485.  It was said of Yousef, that no child was born to him until his eightieth year, when he had five children, the first born of which was,

26.  Ali, who died in 1527, and had at least, eighty male children.

27.  Mohammed, in 1691, brother of Muley Meherrez, a famous brigand, and afterwards a king of Tafilett:  this Mohammed was father of many children, and among the rest—­

28.  Ali, who was called by his uncle from Zambo (?) into Moghrele-el-Aksa Morocco about the year 1620, and died in 1632, after having founded the second, and present, dynasty of the Hoseinee Shereefs, surnamed the Filei,

29.  Muley Shereeff, died in 1652; he had eighty sons, and a hundred and twenty-four daughters.

30.  Muley Ismail, in 1727.

31.  Muley Abdullah, in 1757.

32.  Sidi Mohammed, in 1789.

33.  Muley Yezeed, who assumed the surname of El-Mahdee i.e. “the director,” in 1792.

34.  Muley Hisham, in 1794.

35.  Muley Suleiman, in 1822.

36.  Muley Abd Errahman, nephew of Muley Suleiman and eldest son of Muley Hisham, the reigning Shereefian prince. [5]

In the Shereefian lineage of Muley Suleiman, copied for Ali Bey by the Emperor himself, and which is very meagre and unsatisfactory, we miss the names of the two brothers, the Princes Yezeed and Hisham, who disputed the succession on the death of their father, Sidi Mohammed which happened in April 1790 or 1789, when the Emperor was on a military expedition to quell the rebellion of his son, Yezeed—­the tyrant whose bad fame and detestable cruelties filled with horror all the North African world.  The Emperor Suleiman evidently suppressed these names, as disfiguring the lustre of the holy pedigree; although Yezeed was the hereditary prince, and succeeded his father three days after his death, being proclaimed Sultan at Salee with accustomed pomp and magnificence.  This monster in human shape, having excited a civil war against himself by his horrid barbarities, was mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow, shot from a secret hand, and died in February 1792, the 22nd month of his reign, and 44th year of his age.

On being struck with the fatal weapon, he was carried to his palace at Dar-el-Beida, where he only survived a single day; but yet during this brief period, and whilst in the agony of dissolution, it is said, the tyrant committed more crimes and outrages, and caused more people to be sacrificed, than in his whole lifetime, determining with the vengeance of a pure fiend, that if his people would not weep for his death they should mourn for the loss of their friends and relations,