NIMR THE TIGER. 77 in Metemma, Oradurman, &c. From him Ismail Pascha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, demanded a monstrous tribute, to be paid in three days, treating, at the same time, tliis far and widelyrespected Slieik Avith harshness and contempt, and went so far, it is said, as to strike him over the face witli his pipe-stem, as he knelt asldng some abatement of the tribute, or longer time to collect it, Kimr gasped for revenge. Under pretence of collecting fodder for the camels he had to contribute, he surrounded the residence of the Pascha in Schendy with durra-straw, and firing this at night, burnt it down, and with it Ismail and his attendants. At the same time, the father of our Defalla, Mohammed Adian Defalla, Great Sheik of the Fungh, on the Gesira, murdered all the Turkish soldiers to be found in his countries. Soon after this, appeared in these lands the bloody Defterdar Bey, to bathe himself in the blood of the inhabitants of it, and especially in those of Schendy, which place and race he totally destroyed, and proceeded burning and slaying all that came in his way, men, women, and children, with such cruelty and barbarity, that men of the present day shudder as they relate his deeds. Melek Nimr, however, had, in the interim, escaped with the greater part of his tribe to the land of Raujahn, at the foot of the Abyssinian mountains, between the two small rivers Bassalahm and Settiet, which afterwards flow into the Atbara, and settled in the neighbourhood of Sofie. After a while the ever restless and discontented Galliha joined him, some, however, remaining in Taka, and with them «:!ame the Angareb into this country, which, without any reference to the length of the person, is made as small and short as possible, so as to be the easier ti'ansported Avith the owners on the camels during their constant moving and shifting of residences and wandering journeys.

Tlie now aged Nimr did not in his new country forget his old, so gave to the new villages he fouml names that reminded him of his old fatherland, as Schendy, Darner, &c. Every now and then he heads plundering forays against his neighbours the Schukuri.

Beni-Amer, and others, carrying off their camels, cattle, and other possessions, while his many sons, principall}' borne him by his Abyssinian wife, a daughter of a Sultan, or Pas, of that land, are his constant guards and attendants. He is now in possession