text:  23 1764; but that Sheik Ali Hazin died somewhere about this time seems more probable than that his life was extended (as stated by Sir Gore Ouseley) till 1779; since he describes himself at the conclusion of his memoirs in 1742 when only in his 53d year as "leading the dullest course of existence in the dullest of all dull countries and disabled by his increasing infirmities from any active exertion of either body or mind"--a state of things scarcely promising a prolongation of life to the age of ninety