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of 12,000 souls all told; under escort to their lands; and when the people saw that he was consulting their welfare they ceased all resistance and became loyal subjects.). . .
CCLIX Then Khurshid Agha returned to el Khartoum and began
the building of the mosque in the same year, and ordered the people
to build houses, for most of them lived in tents of hair-matting and cowhide and there were no buildings of brick, excepting those of the family of the feki Arbab near the mosque and those of the families of
the Kadis and of the feki Hammadnulla and those of the Budanab'.
CCLX Similarly he ordered work to be started on barracks for the troops and storerooms for the equipment of the Gehadia. The
Government buildings, that is the present hakimddrta, had been begun by Mahhi Bey ...
(The author speaks of the energy shown in building the mosques and dwelling-houses. Some unimportant changes of personnel in the Govern-
ment are also mentioned.). . .
CCLXI In 1246^ Khurshid Agha made an expedition in boats against [the] Shilluk and inflicted upon them such slaughter as had never been seen since the time of the Mek Badi Rubat.
CCLXI I In the same year died the feki 'Abd el Kadir walad Day- fulla.
CCLXIII In 1247^ Khurshid Agha made the Sabderat expedition and hemmed them in so strictly that they desired to submit and asked
for peace : and Khurshid Agha granted them peace and returned . . . (certain transfers of personnel are mentioned).. . .
CCLXIV The same year occurred a great earthquake, and the excel-
lent Muhammad el Magdhub Kumr el Din, son of Sheikh Hammad
walad el Magdhub, died and was buried at el Damer; and el Khur- batli Hasan Kashif, the ruler of el Halfaya district and the White Nile, also died and was buried at Kubbat el Sheikh Khogali.
CCLXV In 1248'* Khurshid Agha went to Kordofal and returned. . . (In 1249 ^ the author says, Khurshid Agha v/as promoted in rank by Muhammad 'Ali Pasha: great rejoicings and festivities in the Sudan are said to have followed the receipt of this news.). . .
CCLXVI In 1250^ Khurshid Agha went to Kordofan and returned in safety. Then he visited Shendi, accompanied by the Grand Kadi, with a view to the settlement of the disputes that had arisen between
Sheikh Bashir Ahmad 'Akid and the Ga'aliyyun people about the lands which the former had occupied. And His Excellence sent for
all the Governors of Provinces, and they all assembled at Shendi and
1 reading w^Uju for w>Ijju. ^1831 a.d.
3 1832 a.d." ' ^ 1833 a.d. 5 1834 A.D. ^ 1835 A.D.