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... and they were met by the archers who were in Kaga. The Pasha Muhammad bin Mummi, the owner of the army, entered it. Then they departed from there to the land of Bur and settled there. On the nineteenth day of it, the commander Abd al-Karim bin al-Yad died in the city of Kaga. The Pasha Muhammad sent him there.

... three salaries. They gathered and some of them interfered with others until they were in a state of disagreement. On the twenty-fifth day of Rabi' al-Thani, the Pasha Yahya died. The Qadi Abd al-Rahman prayed over him in the desert at the Eid prayer area at noon and he was buried in the cemeteries of Sukri. On Wednesday, the twenty-first of Jumada al-Akhirah, two messengers came from Jinn with a letter from the commander Ali bin Abd al-Aziz al-Farji. He informed them that the bandits of Jinn had attacked a boat of salt on the road and killed five people in it: three Darawi of origin, one Tuni, and the fifth Abd Allah bin Tikt. They plundered a lot of money from it. The people of Jinn requested help from the people of Tikt in that letter. The people of Tikt were greatly saddened by that and almost despaired of victory. They decided to march to them with a full and abundant army. Their elders began to draw their swords, and they cut off forty men, and they were wounded until their men were cut off. They brought them out. When they reached the port, they were surprised to find that their numbers were not sufficient.

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