WITH THE BEYS OF JEGYP T. 497 



Thefe accounts threw the kapudan pafha into great 

 Confirmation, and the Franks into difmay; The 

 Arabs, however; were ardently defirous to fee the 

 beys return. Had the latter but known how to have" 

 improved their victory ; had they only continued the 

 purfuit quite to Cairo, they would have remained maf- 

 ters of the place, and have compelled the kapudan 

 pallia to fue to them for peace on whatever terms they 

 chofe. But fortune would have \t otherwife. 



The kapudan pallia, feeing that the beys had re- 

 treated, gave immediate orders to make a new levy of 

 recruits, which was accordingly done to the amount of 

 about 12,000 men. They confirmed of 1500 mam- 

 meluks, brought on by the beys of his appointment ; 

 1500 galeangi which had been picked up in Cairo, 

 where they carried on their trades, and of 9000 

 jordaffi. 



The 6th. of November the inimical bevs feized oil 

 all the pro virions they could find in the villages be- 

 tween their camp and Cairo. 



The 7th. the kapudan pafha, by orders received 

 from the Porte, as was generally believed, depofed the 

 pafha of the fort, and conftituted Abdul pafha in his 

 room. 



The 10th. he commanded his new army to encamp 

 at Sexiti three hours from Cairo, and to throw ud a 

 battery for 1 2 cannon, to ftop the progrefs of the beys 

 if they fhould attempt to come on j and a little farther 

 down he polled 7 galeangici under the orders of their 

 fer alkie r.- 



An old jordaffi, who had been in the army of trie ka- 

 pudan pafha, and in the aclion of the 2,7th. had gone 



