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In the good graces' of the fultan, and that he would 

 readily pay all that was exacted' of him. Farther, 

 that the kapudan. pafha would bring about his recon- 

 ciliation with the two beys who were come out of 

 Upper ./Egypt ; or, at leaft, that he would not any 

 more fend the troops under his command to flaughter 

 againft the faid beys. That the kapudan pafha fhould 

 confine his refidence to Cairo, where he was confi- 

 dered as the common father ; and that it gave him 

 great concern to find that he was expofed to any thing 

 difagreeable. Wifhed him only to : bring thofe of Cairo 

 into the war. 



The kapudan pafha difmiffed the deputy, after he 

 liad prefented him with a pelice of 300 piafters in va- 

 lue, and ordered him to be attended by a guard to the 

 gates of the city, without allowing him to flop for a' 

 moment. He told: him verbally, that, if the beys did 

 not perform all that he had faid to him, then he would 

 be guiitlefs of whatever might be the confequence. 



The 20th. the kapudan pafha returned the anfwer/ 



The 2 1 ft. he went to Aberbernibi,- 12 miles diftanf: 

 From the fortification. 



The 22d. two of the hoftile beys were feen reconnoi- 

 tring from Ghifa to Ambala. 



The kapudan pafha ordered the bombardier -bark 

 and four galeangici, to caft anchor, at the diltance of 

 cannot-fhot from each other, before Ghifa, beyond 

 the mouth of the canal formed by the ifland and thi 

 main. 



The 26th. the kapudan pafha afcended" an emB* 

 nence on the fuperjor part of the mote of the Nile, in 

 front of the bombardiers at Ghifa^ where he erected a 



M^ik at fort* 



