430 NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv. d7. cccxxv.

dirty in appearance" (p. 458). Baker interceded, on his return, with Musa Pasha for Nimr, but Musa Pasha " declared his intention (1862) of attacking him after he should have given the Abyssinians a lesson, for whom he was preparing an expedition in reply to an insolent letter that he had received from King Theodore. . .upon a question of frontier.. . .Musa Pasha subse-

quently started with several thousand men to drive the Abyssinians from Gallabat. . .but upon the approach of the Egyptians, they fell back rapidly.

. . .The Egyptians would not follow them, as they feared the intervention

of the European powers" (pp. 559-561). cccxxvii Other MSB. correspond.

cccxxviii Feki Muhammad 'Abd el Magid's MS. breaks off with the mention of the repression of the rebellion in Kassala (Taka).

cccxxxi The quotation is from the 36th chapter of the Kuran (Sale,

P- 333).