22 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



who are found to be creditors for such sums duly 

 proved. 



" < It is also necessary to be well acquainted with 

 the limits of each village, and to compel the sheiks 

 and notables to respect these limits and to appoint 

 proper guardians, who will be responsible for any 

 murder or theft committed within the boundaries of 

 their village, and who will be bound to produce the 

 murderer or thief, failing which they will be held 

 personally responsible. This is done with a view to 

 secure the safety of the road, and to prevent them 

 shifting the responsibility from one to the other, 

 which would render the process of trial a very long 

 one, and make it very difficult to discover the truth. 



" * You will therefore take the necessary steps to 

 fix the boundaries of each village ; you will make the 

 sheiks understand what a serious responsibility rests 

 upon them 



" i Up till now the thieves and murderers sentenced 

 to penal servitude for life have been sent to the galleys 

 in the Soudan ; if, instead of that, they had been re- 

 moved to galleys far away from their families and 

 villages, the knowledge of this would probably have 

 prevented them from committing the crime. I have 

 consequently decided that those who are condemned 

 to penal servitude for life shall be sent to the galleys 

 in Egypt to undergo their punishment, and that those 

 who are condemned to a like penalty in Egypt shall 

 be sent to the Soudan. 



