128 CHRONOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 



sultan of Egypt, took place. He built at Cairo the great mosque 

 which bears his name. A gold coin issued by him, is figured by 

 Marcel, p. 174. 



The irspurXoxa^a of the Scholiast of Theocritus v. 128, according to 

 Forskal's and Sibthorp's account of the Greek usage, is the Convolvulus 

 arvensis. — This plant is figured by Plukenet and Boccone; was seen 

 in Egypt by Forskal and Delile; and I met with it, growing as a weed 

 in the Dekkan. 



In "A. D. 1361," the accession of Mohammed El-Mansur, the 

 eighteenth Memluk sultan of Egypt, took place. A gold coin issued 

 at Cairo during his reign, is figured by Marcel, p. 174. 



In "A. D. 1363," the accession of Schaban-Aschraf, the nineteenth 

 Memluk sultan of Egypt, took place. A coin issued by him, is figured 

 by Marcel, p. 175. 



In " A. D. 1377," the accession of Ali El-Mansur, the twentieth 

 Memluk sultan of Egypt, took place. 



In " A. D. 1381," the accession of Hadgi Saleh, the twenty-first 

 Memluk sultan of Egypt, took place. In the following year, he was 

 deposed ; but some years later, he was recalled to the throne, and 

 was shortly afterwards put to death. In him, the Bahrite Dynasty 

 became extinct. 



In "A. D. 1382," the accession of Barkook, the head of the Borgite 

 Dynasty and the twenty-second Memluk sultan of Egypt, took place. 

 He built at Cairo the mosque which bears his name ; also, a col- 

 lege ; and he introduced some changes in the administration of the 

 government. The buildings so conspicuous in the Desert, to the east- 

 ward of Cairo, are the tombs of the Borgite Memluk kings (Wilkinson, 

 Thebes and Egypt, p. 307). 



In " A. D. 1399," the accession of Faradj, the twenty-third Memluk 

 sultan of Egypt, took place. 



In the same year (Desvergers and Marcel), the Tartars under 

 Timur or Tamerlane, threatened Egypt ; overran Syria and Asia 

 Minor, and defeated the Turks; and thus indirectly, saved for a time 

 the Greek or Byzantine Empire. 



In "A. D. 1412," Shekh Mahmoudi, partly through the interference 

 of Mostain, the spiritual khalif, became the twenty-fourth Memluk 

 sultan of Egypt. He built one of the most remarkable mosques at 

 Cairo : and according to Wilkinson, coined the moaiudee as a substi- 

 tute for the para (Thebes and Egypt, p. 555). 



