Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... when a nephew of Mahadi Mahomed, with the assistance of the prince of Kaukeban, made himself master of all the country except Sana. El Mansor, however, found means to seize the persons of the usurper and his protector, and cast them both into consinement. He, with the fame good fortune, repressed the rebellion of another of his cousins, and of one of his brothers; and shut these also up for the rest of life. He reigned one and twenty years. chap. iii. Of El Mahadi, the reigning Imam. Imam El Mansor left several sons, the eldest of whom, Att, had naturally the best right to succeed him. His mother was the first wife that his father had married, and daughter to the prince of Kaukeban: Consequently he was lineally descended from Mahomet both by father and mother. But, the princess, who was living at Sana in 1763, had not influence or address enough to secure the succession to her son, although it was the general wish of the country that he should be sovereign. A son, who was named Abbas, had been born to El Mansor by a negress slave. This woman artfully concealed her master's death, till the Kadi di Jachja, one of El Mansor's principal ministers, had time to secure the troops, and the governors of the provinces, in the interest of her son Abbas, whom she then made to be proclaimed Imam, by the name of El Mahadi. Prince Ali was thrown into consinement, in which he died in the year 1759. In the beginning of El Mahadi's reign, the prince of Kaukeban repeatedly disputed with him the title of Imam. But, being twice defeated, and his beard being burnt in the second engagement by the accidental explosion of his magazine of powder, he renounced his pretensions to the character of Imam, and made peace with the Monarch of Sana. In the year 1750, an...
