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palhas, and at laft the beys, all in full fpeed ; on whiclt 

 they were purfued by the enemy, for fix hours fuccef- 

 lively, with guns, fabres, and piftols. When they had 

 reached their forts, the kiaia, who had the guard, or- 

 dered the artillery to play upon the beys ; and thus 

 prevented their total defeat ; which, had it not been 

 for this lucky thought, his people muft inevitably have 

 fufFered. In this action, the beys loft no more than 

 ten horfes, which were fhot dead by the firft firing of 

 the great guns; whereas, of the 12,000 horfes the ka- 

 pudan pafha had before the onfet, there remained not 

 more than a thoufand ; and they had been very ill- 

 treated. 



In this attack Ifmael bey had his lower-jaw fractured 

 by a fhot, on which account he returned to Cairo, on 

 the 30th. 



The 5th. of November the remains of the routed 

 army returned by fhipping to Cairo. From thefe it 

 was learnt ; that their overthrow was owing more to 

 furprize and fear than to the bravery of the beys ; as, 

 in the flight, they preffed with fo much hafie into the 

 barks, horfes and all, that they prefently overloaded 

 them ; infomuch that they every one funk, and all were 

 drowned ; that the beys had made flaves of many of 

 the gaiTali, but afterwards fet them free again, namely, 

 thofe of the retinue of the kapudan pafha ; that thefe 

 however were killed by the Arabs who met them in 

 the defart with the defign to plunder them, fo that 

 fcarcely twenty men came back ; that they (the beys) 

 had caufed all the galeangis to be beheaded, while they 

 lay in Siuf, had violated their women, and fold them 

 to the higheft bidders, 8cc. 



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