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the advice of the little beys, fet about putting their 

 great guns in order, for oppoling the kapudan pafha. 



The great beys were of opinion, that the beft courfe 

 they could take would be to move the pafha by renew- 

 ed intreaties to procure for them a reinstatement in the 

 graces of the fultan ; that a place in the city mould be 

 left where he and his people might take up their quar- 

 ters. To this end they would give up every thing elfe, 

 and furrender in all refpects to his will. In cafe he 

 would not allow himfelf to be moved, then they mould 

 flee as far as they could ; and when they could flee no 

 farther, to turn about and give him battle, let the con- 

 fequence be what it might. 



They remained fix days in Polaco. During thefe fa 

 days, the mammeluks made feveral attacks on* the 

 lhops at this place, but with little effect. 



The 3d. of Auguft, the pafha of the fort nominated 

 the officers of the government ; namely : the aga of the 

 janizaries, a fort of popular chief, but who exercifes an 

 unlimited power of life and death ; the fubaffi, a kind 

 of captain-fergeant, w r ho has an equal authority over 

 the people, by night, with the aga of the janizaries ; 

 and the muctapip, who has the infpeclion over the pro- 

 visions, and at the fame time the right of cauling ma- 

 lefactors to be whipped to death. 



On the 4th. the forementioned officers entered Cairo, 

 and allured the people, on the part of the liccabeletti, 

 that no one had need to be afraid on account of what- 

 ever had palled, nor fnould be niolefled by any perfon ; 

 which affurance was likewife punctually obferved. 



The fame day the perfons newly appointed by the 

 pafha took themfelves away again. 



