404 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. d 7. cccxxv.
Musa Pasha to the Abyssinian border, where, faiHng to meet the Abyssin- ians, he turned his attention to the Awlad Nimr — who had retired there from Shendi after the murder of Isma'il Pasha — and broke their power. He went on to el Taka, and finally returned to Khartoum the same year. There he received news of his promotion to be Ferik, and the event was duly celebrated by the populace.). . .
CCCXXVI On the 3rd of Muharram 1280^ Musa Pasha set out for el Mahrusa to meet His Excellence the Khedive and was greatly honoured and returned, after a short stay, to his hakimddria, and
el Khartoum was honoured by his arrival on the forenoon of a Friday in Gemdd el Akhir 1280. . .
CCCXXVI I (The author now suddenly breaks off his history to say that he will give a short resume of the events that happened during the regimes
of Musa Pasha's successors.
CCCXXVIII He then recounts in fulsome language how in 1282"^ Ga'afir Muzhar Pasha came to Khartoum with Ga'afir Sadik Pasha, the new Governor-General, as the latter's zoakil, and at once proceeded to el Taka and repressed a rebellion there. On the 17th of Shozvdl 1282^ he returned to Khartoum and by virtue of a firman received from Egypt
took the place of Ga'afir Sadik Pasha as Governor-General. On the i8th of Shozvdl the firman was publicly read and a formal reception held, and
the new Governor-General appointed 'Ali Bey Fadli to be his zvakil.
CCCXXIX In 1283* the Governor-General was summoned to Cairo and sent up the Red Sea to Massawa on a mission of enquiry. After his return
to Cairo he was sent back again to Khartoum in 1284'. His departure, journey and return were celebrated in a poem addressed to him by Sheikh
el Amin Muhammad, the Chief of the 'Ulema. He then remained at Khartoum and carried on the Government with great success. Eulogies of his modesty, generosity and other virtues are poured forth in a stream of nauseous adulation.
CCCXXX In 1288^ the catastrophe of his recall befel the Sudan, and universal grief was shown.). . .
CCCXXXI And while they were distracted with uncertainty and con-
jecture and were relieving the tension by clinging to the ropes of hope,
lo! they were overwhelmed with a great disaster and stricken by a terrible blow, by comparison with which their previous affliction was
of no account, for in the month of Ragab el Khartoum and its neigh-
bourhood suffered a calamity such as had never been known, namely the appointment of one who was in every respect the opposite of his
predecessor, and whose name [viz. Mumtaz, i.e. "Distinguished"] was completely distinguished [Ar. " mumtdz"] from his character; for his character was that of those men of whom God in His precious
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