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He was overwhelmed with professions of friendship from people who claimed to be connections of some of his family. In fact, if all the ramifications of his race were correctly represented by the claimants of relationship, Mahomet&#8217;s family tree would have shaded the Nubian desert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahomet, who was a great man, suffered from the same complaint to which great men are (in those countries) particularly subject. Wherever he went he was attacked with claimants of relationship. 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