136.) Yet Theophanes, the most ancient of the Greeks, and the father of many a lie, confesses that Mahomet was of the race of Ismael, (Chronograph.p.

277.)] [Footnote 64: Abulfeda (in Vit.Mohammed.c.1, 2) and Gagnier (Vie de Mahomet, p.

25-97) describe the popular and approved genealogy of the prophet.

At Mecca, I would not dispute its authenticity: at Lausanne, I will venture to observe, 1.

That from Ismael to Mahomet, a period of 2500 years, they reckon thirty, instead of seventy five, generations: 2.
That the modern Bedoweens are ignorant of their history, and careless of their pedigree, (Voyage de D'Arvieux p.