The following list has been extracted from the Tárich, or “Chronicles” of the Kings of the Maldives, which, as above stated (vol. i, p. 309), have been kept for many centuries at Málé. The work of extraction has been done by one of the Naibs, a man of intelligence and conversant with Arabic, under the direction of a near relative of Ibrahim Dídí, the Prime Minister.

The Naib informs Mr. Bell that he has done his best to obtain with accuracy the dates of the succession of each Sultan and the length of his reign, but he admits that there may be some mistakes, inasmuch as the present Tárikh, which is about 150 years old, is only a copy of a preceding one, which itself was probably a copy of one still earlier, and so on.

Even to us, whose knowledge of Maldive dynasties is confined to a few short periods of the national history, several errors appear on the surface; but these appear to be mere errors of detail, accessions being misdated by a few years. They may, perhaps, be due to the recopying above referred to; or, again, the record may have been left unsupplied during years of trouble, after which the precise year was forgotten.