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him [to do so] and repeated complaints had been made on the subject.

In fact had not Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir been charged to reply for the people on his behalf he would have been ruined.

CCCIV 'Abd el Latif Pasha stayed at el Khartoum busying himself with hearing cases and petitions innumerable ^ and he did no other work unless it were what he did in the matter of renewing and beautifying the buildings of the present hakimddria.

CCCV In his time Rufa'a Bey, the Director of Schools, came, and with him Kdimakdm Bayumi EfFendi and many Effendis and gentle-

men ; and the Hakimdar continued at el Khartoum and never left it ; and nothing happened in the hakimddria except the dismissal of

Sheikh Idris 'Adlan from the position of Sheikh of the [Fung] mountains and the appointment of his brother's son 'Adlan in his stead, and the matter of Hasan Mismar, the Superintendent of Cus-

toms, who was beaten and imprisoned, and what followed, and the

dismissal of Hasan Khalifa el 'Abadi, who had been in charge of the road across the Abu Hammad desert, from the sheikhship, and his imprisonment, and what followed, and the appointment of his

brother Husayn Khalifa as Sheikh, and the granting to Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir of the rank of mudzvin of the hakimddria in addition to his

being Sheikh el Mashdikh of the whole of the Gezira, and the extreme deference paid to him, and also to Sheikh Ahmad Abu Sin.

CCCVI Early in 1268^ Rustum Pasha arrived as Hakimdar of the Sudan and 'Abd el Latif Pasha retired to el Mahrusa. In his days the Members of the Council, Mahr Bey and the others, visited the country ; but his period of rule was short : in fact he stayed a few days in el Khartoum, visited Walad Medani district, returned thence sick

and died at el Khartoum.

CCCVI I In Ramaddn of the same year Isma'il Pasha Abu Gebel was appointed to succeed Rustum Pasha. He came to el Khartoum and stayed there awhile, and then went to the district of Khashm el Bahr. Thence he proceeded to the eastern districts, toured them awhile,

and finally returned to el Khartoum until he was recalled in Sha-

'abdn '69^.

CCCVIII He was succeeded as Hakimdar by Selim Pasha, who lay sick at el Khartoum until his recall at the end of Gemdd el Azcal

JO*.

CCCIX Selim Pasha was succeeded by Sirri 'Ali Pasha Arnaot : he never left el Khartoum except to visit Sennar, and his rule was brief

for he was recalled in Gamdd el Akhir 'yi^.

1 reading l^Jj-Aa-^) for Vj-cu».'i). - 1851 a.d.

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