487 The rebels of the Urabi Revolution and the person responsible for those famous events and horrors. The Khedive was concerned and sent a decree to the Governor of Gharbia to investigate the news and identify these two strange individuals. The Governor obeyed the order and sent a group of police officers and some detectives to that town. It was only a few days before they returned on the second of Rabi' al-Awwal with Abdullah Nadim himself, his wife, and a servant named Saleh Ahmed. Abdullah was dressed as a dervish, with a green turban on his head, and had grown a beard, making him resemble the Ababda Arabs. The Governor kept the news of his appearance secret from the people for fear of sedition and sent the news to the Khedive's court and the Ministry of the Interior. In the Ministry of the Interior, Abd al-Rahman Rushdi Pasha, Zaki Pasha, Tiktcher Pasha, Tikkran Pasha, and Ahmed Shukri Pasha met and discussed at length the reappearance of Abdullah Nadim after his long disappearance, and the course of action to be taken to investigate his escape, disappearance, and stay in Giza for all this time. On the tenth of the month, the Council of Ministers decided to implement the Khedive's order to exile Abdullah Nadim to Sham and release those arrested with him. The order came to the Governor of Gharbia to send Abdullah to Alexandria to travel from there to Sham. They put him on a train under guard by a group of soldiers and the governorate's assistants, and prevented people from seeing him. They had also arrested a group of Giza residents who had sheltered Abdullah and those who knew him. The Khedive pardoned them and released them. Abdullah arrived in Alexandria and was placed in the arsenal prison for the night. The next morning, they transferred him to one of the Khedivial Company's ships going to Sham. The Khedive had instructed the captain not to trouble Abdullah or disturb him, to let him disembark in any city he wished in Sham, and to give him some money for expenses and livelihood after disembarking. Abdullah was also allowed to practice any trade he wished. People admired the Khedive's actions and spoke of them at length. Some had thought that Abdullah Nadim's punishment after being found would be crucifixion, or the cutting off of his hands, or banishment from the land of the East altogether. What happened was different from what they expected. Abdullah chose to disembark in Jaffa, and they disembarked him there. He opened a school for boys and showed as much asceticism and piety as he could, content with sufficiency. Some people recognized him and became close to him, and his situation improved. News reached the Khedivial court in Alexandria about the efforts of the irrigation officials, the English group (request), to open the Qashisha bridge with care to control the irrigation of all the lands in the Upper Provinces this year, and that nothing new had occurred in the flood except a small amount of land in the Eastern Huf, despite the Nile not reaching its usual level. They requested permission to open the new Qashisha canals in a large flood. The Khedive ordered accordingly. On the fourteenth of Rabi' al-Awwal of the year, corresponding to the seventeenth of October, the irrigation men decorated the bridge along its length and the road leading to it with flags and banners, and placed the Khedive's portrait at the entrance of the canals from one side, and the portraits of the Minister of Public Works, Colonel McRieff, and the Inspector of Irrigation, Colonel Ross, and the group of engineers who supervised the construction of this building from the other side.