... and treated them kindly, and guided them to the food of the householders. The matter was either within or outside of it. And what made this proportional story greater was what they collected of rifles and cartridges, and what the entire group left behind. Their march was about forty thieves, and they were Muslims with rifles they had picked up from the battlefields of the revolution. When the town guards sensed them, they said, "The rifles are being fired one after another." The thieves responded in kind, and the fighting intensified between the two sides. The townspeople, indeed, had no weapons left. The thieves said, "A fierce battle ensued from after the last prayer until the break of dawn." While the fires were exchanged between the two parties, a group of thieves were digging through the walls of the house until they reached the place of a man named Abd al-Jalil Agha al-Murli. They found and took all the gold and possessions they found. They opened the door of the householder, his daughter, and a black servant, and went out with what they had taken from the midst of the crowd of the townspeople, while they were at their peak of audacity and boldness. We were amazed by the number of cartridges they fired that night, which was about seven hundred cartridges. The ruling authority was shaken by the actions of those scoundrels. It was soon decreed that extraordinary courts would be established in the name of investigating felonies, and out of fear, the legal rights were disregarded. From that day on, everyone suspected of anything was arrested and imprisoned. Then their felonies were investigated, and they were sentenced to severe punishments, including execution, hard labor, life imprisonment, and other strict penalties. The prisons were then filled. This intoxication spread throughout the Arab and tribal regions. The Khedive also ordered the collection of all the rifles and war implements left by the revolutionaries in the battlefields. The houses of all the villagers and towns were searched, and whatever was found in them was confiscated, and anyone found with anything of it was punished most severely. We counted what they collected that day from the districts of Dakahlia and Menoufia and some other countries, which was about ten thousand rifles and one hundred thousand cartridges. At that point, the scoundrels became afraid, retreated, and the activities of the gangs ceased. People's hearts were somewhat reassured, and the fields were cultivated. The farmers returned to their farms after they had not paid attention to them when the sun approached sunset. These measures continued their work steadily, without being lax or negligent, and their severity did not hide from the people, taking the innocent for the guilt of the guilty. This situation lasted for about six months until the Khedive ordered its dissolution. It was announced, and the consideration of all crimes returned to the local governor as it was before. He released them all, both those who were previously imprisoned and those who were imprisoned later.