[Footnote 186: The present state of the family of Mahomet
and Ali is most accurately described by Demetrius Cantemir
(Hist. of the Othmae Empire, p. 94) and Niebuhr,
(Description de l'Arabie, p. 9 - 16, 317 &c.) It is much to
be lamented, that the Danish traveller was unable to
purchase the chronicles of Arabia.]