IV.D7.CCCXXXII. OF THE SUDAN 405

Book spoke the words " Be ye separated^ this day [from the righteous] , O ye evildoers ! "

CCCXXXII This substitute, whose works were perversion and sub-

stitution, arrived on the 2nd of Ramadan in this year, and from the day of his arrival he terrorized the people by such wholesale in-

justice as had never been experienced by them individually or col-

lectively at the hands of any of the rulers who preceded him, and as would, if mentioned, blacken the pages of the records and cause the heart of the historian to bleed for pity. Therefore we have drawn a veil over the details and recognized that to shroud the foulness of his deeds in a short summary is preferable to expounding them at length.

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