sacrificing to their fury many of its inhabitants. The plunder which
they brought back was however seized by the Selictar, and by the Pasha's
orders restored to its owners.

The conduct of his Excellence on this occasion was highly laudable,
while it must be confessed that that of the soldiers was not much to
be blamed. Durra--a miserable pittance of durra, scarcely sufficient
to support nature, was all that was required from the people of these
countries, money free; and this, in the instance mentioned, was refused
by a people whose chief had already granted it--a people absolutely
within our power, and who extorted from the starving soldiery enormous
prices for every thing they sold us, and who frequently refused to sell
us any thing at all with great ferocity and insolence.

On the 15th of the moon, at two hours before sunset, the signal was
fired, and the camp of the Pasha rose to commence its march for Sennaar.
We marched till midnight, and reposed, as usual, on the bank of the
river till about the same hour of the afternoon of the 16th of the moon,
when we pursued our march for five hours, and halted by the river. We
stayed here till the 18th, in the afternoon, in order to obtain three
days rations for the horses from the villages in the neighborhood, which
are numerous and large, as the country through which our route would lie
for that time, is destitute of inhabitants and cultivation.

It was on the 16th that Malek Shouus, the chief of the fugitive
Shageias, who had fled as the army approached up the country, came at
length to the camp to surrender himself to the discretion of the Pasha.
He addressed the Pasha, as I have been informed, as follows: "I have
fought against you to the utmost of my means and power, and am now
ready, if you will, to fight under the orders of my conqueror." The