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The irrigation resumed after noon. He said he asked for a delay until deliberation could take place, but he did not accept. So he ordered that it be written down. It was transcribed and they spoke of a dream, and it was recorded that the Egyptian army would never be defeated, and a report was made to that effect. Foreign troops would not enter their castles or fortresses without permission from the Sublime Porte, and a report was made to that effect. A request. But they did not deliver it to the ships' captains. From Alexandria. Regarding the people, the soldiers, the farmers, and the common folk. They asked for the gates and the roads and the walls, and they went out. And what was carried by the gift. The soldiers evacuated from the strongholds of Ras El-Ain, Bab Rashid, and Bab El-Gadid towards the direction of El-Mahiyya. And they took what remained of the farmers' soldiers and the fortresses in Androge before sunset. And the children because of And the scribes of the boatmen, and they continued to go out all night. When the moon appeared, Suleiman Bey Dawud, That. The commander of the Alexandrian army, and he called out to some of the horsemen to announce to the people to leave the city. Urgently, and whoever stayed behind would be held accountable for what he disliked. So the announcement was made in the alleys and streets, and the people woke up. They were barefoot and bareheaded. So it was. The children were crying and screaming, and the mothers were wailing, and the men were racing and competing, in their shock and bewilderment. The women from the households left, not taking anything from their possessions except water, and what we knew of light. Clothing. And the army urged them to leave through Bab El-Gadid, and they were calling out to them with threatening voices. Then the sun set. So the gate of Bab El-Gadid was filled with the rest of the men. And women and children, and they were within its walls, and they went out with their hands in their hands, some of them helping others. The five. It intensified for them. When they killed the water. When the women and the looters saw the Arabs around those edges. They acted and corrupted and stole everything their hands could reach. Then the shouting rose, and the voices rose. The women's crying and wailing, and some of them wanted to return to the city despite the fears and dangers within it. So they could not. The vanguard of the armed men and the riffraff were plundering the animals in El-Manshiyya. And the carpets of Sharif, and the silks, and the brocades, and the scissors. And the engraved items for casting, and the most precious jewelry and ornaments, and types of gifts, and varieties of adornments and drinks. And water, and perfumes, and houses of porcelain and crystal, and other things that are required by The Egyptians in a clamor and a great noise, most of them stained with blood. And when the people began to leave. The city, leaving behind their homes, their possessions, their furniture, their food and drink, fell into the hands of. The common people to steal some of it, and others did not reach it until it emerged. Suleiman Bey Dawud in the Tadj Square, and the common people looted the merchants' shops. And looted what was in them, and the damage to the shops in the city until they became like ruins, and most of the women did so. So the common people rose as one. And they broke the doors of the money and crystal shops and looted all the silks in them. And the scissors, and the varieties of fine fabrics, and the jewelry, and the ornaments, and everything their hands reached. And it was. If a man took something of that and was leaving, someone stronger than him would catch him and take it from him or kill him. (39 - The fourth Kaf)

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