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- 65 -to them their departure, and the Pasha went out to them and repelled them, and some of them refused to leave. They returned to the town and remained there until the cry of Saturday, the twenty-sixth of the month. The aforementioned, they left the town and went towards their area, but some of them remained there. Then they left the next day, Sunday, and joined their sisters. On Friday, the fourth of Rabi' Al-Thani, it rained with much hail and snow. This was two days after the departure of Bu'lah. On Monday, the seventh of it, news reached us from Majti that my master Abdullah bin Mawlana bin Nasser, son of my master Ismail, had left the western part of the Wilayat of Al-Mu until he entered a village in Majti, near him. He intended to enter the town, but the army prevented him. They did not accept him, and he remained there until one cry. From the time of its occurrence, he entered the town in one of its mosques, and the people did not recognize his entry until they found him there. He said to them, "Do you not know me? I am a descendant of Sultan Mawlay Ismail." They replied, "We do not know you, and we only know the Pashas and their sons. As for you, we do not know your status, nor who you are, nor do we care about you." Then they left the town at that hour for the village. Then the archers gathered, and the appointed ones were called in the procession, and they paid four hundred thousand wad'a. And they gave it to the aforementioned Mawlay Abdullah. And from the time they distributed the aforementioned wad'a among them, with a commitment and the name of each one of them according to what he gave, they made the name of Al-Hajj Masoud bin Al-Hajj Saleh Al-Afrani in the leadership. He was appointed in Majti that day, and he is from the Mualaddin. It is not customary among them on this path for the Mualaddin to be responsible for anything, and nothing was given from the appointed ones to the people of the treasury. All the people said this to them, but they did not agree, and the discussion increased. They have now been forced to give, even if they are angry. And when they angered him,