400 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. d 7. ccxcvi.

el Khartoum and the whole of the Gezi'ra of Sennar proper, and Hamdi Bey held this post during the lifetime of the late Ahmad Pasha.

CCXCVII Now H. E. the Hakimdar gave himself no rest, but was always visiting again and again the districts of his hakimddna, one time going to the [Fung] mountains, and another to Kordofan and Tekali; and finally he returned to el Khartoum in 1257^ and in Ramadan died there.

CCXCVIII After his death the affairs of the hakimddna fell into

disorder, and confusion reigned owing to the division of the country into seven provinces, each one with its own Amtr Lewa as Governor.

CCXCIX Then, the same year, came Menekli Ahmad Pasha as a reformer, but no reforms resulted and nothing was settled, for each governor concerned himself only with the work of his own province and failed to render full obedience to the reformer.

CCC For a time the latter stayed at el Khartoum : then he went to

el Taka with the army, taking with him el Arbab Muhammad Dafa-

'alla and Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir and Sheikh Ahmad Abu Sin.

At el Taka he took captive a number of the rebels and brought them back to el Khartoum when they were all executed.

CCCI And Menekli Ahmad Pasha stayed at el Khartoum until '61^ and then proceeded to el Mahrusa in company with el Arbab Muhammad Dafa'alla and Sheikh Abd el Kadir walad el Sheikh el Zayn . . ,

(The author says the two Sheikhs were received in audience by Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, and Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir made a speech of which the eloquence amazed the Pasha, who conferred upon him the decorations of a Mirdldi set in jewels. The two Sheikhs were also shown round Cairo and Alexandria and other places.). . .

CCCII Finally the Pasha appointed Khalid Pasha as their Hakimdar

and recommended them to his care; and in Muharram 1262^ Khalid Pasha entered el Khartoum in company with those we have men-

tioned. There also accompanied him Sheikh Ibrahim el Hinami as Kadi over the whole Sudan. For awhile His Excellency stayed at el Khartoum : then he undertook a tour of inspection which took him into every quarter of his hakimddria. At one time he visited el Taka, at another the mountains of Fazoghli and the mines of Kassan, at another Kordofan and the mines of Shaybun. And he remained in

power as Hakimdar until the latter part of 1266^.

CCCIII Then 'Abd el Latif Pasha came as Hakimdar in the place of Khalid Pasha, in Rabfa el Akhir of the same year, and the latter

returned to el Mahrusa after 'Abd el Latif Pasha had importuned

^ 1842 A.D. 2 1845 A.D. ^ 1845 A.D. ^ 1850 A.D.