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.".1l1STORJCAI. REPLEüTloNS. 199Irom their leader, the word ha,ving the signifiéation of Rabbi \Vith theJews.lIhe plQin.'l'hese evicted their predeceRsors, from the dominion at lcast ofThe Beni Merini were another mountain aggregation, whoseized, in their t;arntbe domination of the plain, and were also in theirturn evic~ednby the Oatazi".a: faction of little traceable origin" inwhosetime.thePortuguese establishedthemsdves on,'the coast",and worriedthecountry:" in bOllour of, the true faith,. ,This gaveanopportunity tothe Xeriffs, descendants o~let, to work into power.the ho]y family of Mecca, settled in 1'afi..ln fact, they seem to have been recUl~red to,onaccount of what tbey were; undev the emergencies of what canbardly beçalled,the state" but,. the menace of an, extraneous violence~Hassan Xeriff hadthe merit,. ill' the ey~sof the country; of delivering itirom'the danger&o( .foreigll"thraldoU1~, andcompensated himself bypossession'of the sceptr,e ;w,hich, be left, Jo his farnrily. ThepresentSultan is-,as were his ancestors· of course, of the Xeriff dynasty; hisdon;lÎnions rrow consist ofMorocco, Fez,Tafilet,.8us (Grelulia), and their:(]ependencies~It is impossible (one wouldthink) for'a country ta oe viewed; andsorne wish not to be enter,tained for a little insight into its geneml his·tot'y.N orcan it he supposed possible topossess the latter, withoutfeeling,fl,nincreased interestc in whatever the country presents.Oppor.:.t:unities w'il1 offer,themselves oecasioualIy for aresllmpti