386 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.dt.ccvii.
until '36^ Then Muhammad walad 'Adlan was slain and their influ-
ence ceased and they no longer directed affairs, and it was even as
Sheikh Idri's walad el Arbab had said, " In the end they will be divided and fight- among themselves and their rule will disappear and the
Turks will conquer the country." So, too, the feki Hegazi walad Abu Zayd, of the family of Sheikh Idris, foretold by shaking letters together that the days of the sons of Muhammad [Abu el Kaylak] would end
with Muhammad walad 'Adlan.
CCVIII Now after the death of Walad 'Adlan dissension was rife, and they continued quarrelling during Ragah and Sha'abdn until the country passed under the sway of Effendi'na Isma'il Pasha, the son of the late Muhammad 'Ali Pasha.
CCIX Now [Isma'il Pasha] arrived in the latter part of Sha'abdn and camped on the west [bank] opposite el Halfaya; and Sheikh Nasir walad el Amin met him and submitted to him and was granted peace and presented with a splendid robe and left in his own country ;
but Isma'il Pasha took with him on his march to Sennar Nasir's son
el Amin and the kings of the Sa'adab, namely the Meks Nimr and jVIusa'ad. And he camped with all his forces and the boats which were accompanying him by river at Omdurman. Then he crossed
the river and camped at el Khartoum, and was met hy the feki Muham-
mad walad 'Ali, the khalifa of the feki Arbab, and treated him with honour and granted him peace ; and he did not stretch forth his hand
against the districts which he crossed excepting only to obtain pro- visions.
CCX And [Isma'il Pasha] started from el Khartoum for Sennar on the last day of Sha'abdn, accompanied by the Kddi Muhammad el Assiuti, and el Sayyid Ahmad el Baghli, the Mufti of the Shafa'ites of the Sudan, and el Sayyid Ahmad el Salawi, the Mufti of the Sayyids of the Maliki sect, and camped at a village west of el Mesal-
lami'a. Here he was met by some of the notables and granted them peace; and, after he had started, there met him Ragab walad 'Adlan and el Arbab Daia'alla walad Ahmad and tendered their submission, and to these also he granted peace and gave robes as he had done
previously in the case of the kings of the Ga'aliyyun. CCXI And before he reached Sennar the Mek Badi and some of the Hamag came and tendered their submission. . .
(The author mentions that honours and presents were heaped upon
Badi and his nobles by Isma'il, who entered Sennar on the 12th oi Ramadan. A proclamation was then issued nullifying all complaints based on events
previous to the conquest. Isma'il acted with the utmost fairness and won
^ 1821 A.D. 1 reading (J^'aj for ^j^\ja2j.