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- 81 -especially Ali al-Mubarak, not like the other archers from Marrakesh and others. They have a festival for it. As for the spearmen, and two spearmen, and Qaf and Qaluf of people, it is like a home for them, where they have their families and their archers, and what is safe. Abd al-Rahim from the country and its people, and he stayed on the mentioned island for two or three nights. These were the night of Saturday, the night of Sunday, and the night of Monday. And on the morning of Monday, he sent his brother, the commander Saeed, to meet whoever among his archers he would find in Timbuktu. They went to meet him at the port of Kabor. When Abd al-Rahim saw them, he pushed his boat from the island until he reached Kabor, and with him were men in boats. When the archers of Commander Saeed came out to meet the ruler Abd al-Rahim, they came out in the archers of the sons of Ali al-Mubarak, and with them were the Tuareg, and they caught up with them at the port of Kabor and fought with them. They fought fiercely with Abd al-Rahim especially, until they killed one of his archers from the people of Sharaq, from the descendants of Pasha Ali bin Abdullah, and they took from all who remained of his archers and the archers of his brother. And their killer that day, from the morning until that march, they killed him then and left him dead. And he stayed there until the next day. Pasha Saeed went to him and ordered the entire group to go to the shrine of Sidi Ahmed together. He entered him there and ordered him to be washed, shrouded, and buried in the graves. It is said that he shrouded him in front of Kabor in the robe that he gave him after washing him. And after that, Pasha came and ordered him to be carried in the same way to Timbuktu. This is more accurate. May God have mercy on him. Amen. And on the fifth day of the month, the fifteenth of the month, we received news from Timbuktu that Abdullah bin Abd al-Latif bin Commander Ali al-Tazriqi and Commander Mam bin al-Balak Abd al-Rahim, when they heard the news of Abd al-Rahim's killing, they prevented travelers from passing by them and kept them there in the land of Shibbi with their boats, which they filled with salt. They said, "We will house them until we confirm the truth of Abd al-Rahim's killing." Then they were accommodated, and the good news was pledged. It was the one who brought the good news from the Kahina Sharaq to the land of Tandram. When the good news reached the Pasha, he cut off eleven men from the archers at that time and sent to Commander Saeed al-Tazriqi and the Kahina.

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