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all hearts by his justice, "for he heard the plaint of the poor man in person without any intermediary." Ragab vvalad 'Adlan was then sent with troops to chase Hasan walad Ragab, and caught him and brought him and some of his supporters back as prisoners : several of the latter were put to death

at Sennar.) . . .

CCXII Then he sent Muhammad Sa'id Effendi with a force of soldiers and Sheikh Rahma walad Rahala against Mek Idris el Mih-

ayna, the Mek of the Gamu'ia, because the latter had not met him and he had heard of his looting villages. And they came upon him

at his house on the White Nile and slew him and took his possessions and returned to Sennar.

CCXII I And, when affairs were settled satisfactorily, the first taxes

were imposed by the issue of an order for the classification of houses ^

[into three groups, namely] high, medium and smaller. Then he had

lists made of slaves and flocks but did not impose any tax upon them ; and he took nothing from the country except fodder for his horses.

Early in '38- arrived His Highness Effendina Ibrahim Pasha. . . (The meeting is described. The author says that in Rabfa Awal both went

south, but Ibrahim "returned in a few days and went to el Mahrusa." Isma'il meanwhile proceeded to Fazoghli, where he captured the local chiefs and "expelled the merchants who resided there and imposed a tax of gold upon them.") . . .

CCXIV And while he was away in the Gebeh, Diwan Effendi Sa'id [imposed] taxation on the people with the compliance of the mu- 'allim Hanna el Mubashir and el Arbab Dafa'alla walad Ahmad. On each head of slaves they made the tax fifteen rials, on each head of cattle

ten rials, on each sheep (51^) and donkey five rials. Meanwhile a false

rumour spread that Isma'il Pasha had been killed in the Gebels. . . (The author describes how some showed sorrow and some joy and some

withheld judgment. When Isma'il returned safe and was told of this he "punished no one for what he had done, but treated them with gentleness

and mercy, as was the custom of his late-lamented father, and he put no

one to death except Walad 'Agaylawi, whom he impaled."). . .

CCXV And Isma'il Pasha, on his arrival, found that Diwan Effendi and el Mubashir had apportioned the collection of the taxes to various employes, and appointed clerks, and arranged the assessments, and issued ledgers, and sent these employes out to the villages to collect the money. And from his compassion for the folk he was dipleased at what had been done and called in the ledgers for alteration; but it was found that el Mubashir had sent them to el Mahrusa.

So he sent Sheikh Sa'ad 'Abd el Fattah after them, to bring them back, but Sa'ad failed to overtake them. . .(The author explains how Isma'il Pasha, since he had been unable to alter the amounts in the ledgers,

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