APPENDIX. 523 descendants forming, at this period, a considerable portion of the population of Timbuctoo, Third Expedition to Timbuctoo and Sudaft, MuLEY Ismael died of an abscess hi 1727, and was succeeded by his youngest son Muley Hamed Dehebby, a most avaricious prince, whose treasure, collected in his government during the life of his father, amounted to ten millions ; to which was now added his father's treasury, amounting to fifty millions, besides jewels and diamonds to a much larger amount.

Dehebby, sanguinary and cruel when sober, was mild, affable, and humane when intoxicated : unlike Muselmen, he beheved not in predestination, but had always several surgeons and doctors in his suite, and consulted them with the most unlimited confidence when ill. He decorated the palace of Marocco : in one of the apartments of the seraglio, of which he had had painted, in a superior style, the twelve signs of the zodiac ; for which his ignorant and bigoted subjects accused him of having conspired against the Deity, in imitating, by gross and illformed images, the works of the Almighty. This prince was an intolerable drunkard ; so that the Marabets and chiefs of the empire called Abdelmelk to the throne, whom they enabled to take possession of Mequinas. This prince, anticipating the revenge ofDehebby, proposed to deprive him of his eye-sight; but the Marabets and chiefs opposed this resolution and replied to him in the following words: — " It is not for his crimes that we have deposed thy brother, but for his continual intoxication, which prevented him from watching over the government and his officers : he has therefore only been *" His proper name was Muley Hamed ben Ismael, the name Dehebby is figm*ative of his riches in gold.