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TRAVELS 
IN AFRICA, 
Sugar, per rotal, 20 to 25 paras. 
Sweet oil, ditto, 12 ditto. 
Milk, ditto, 4 ditto. 
Tobacco of Ladakia, per oke, 45 to 70 paras. 
Fowls, fmall, 12 paras each. 
The recent hiftory of Egypt, till the time of Ifmail Bey, is 
fufficiently known. On the death of Ifmail, HalTan Bey fuc- 
ceeded him in his office of Shech-el-bellad, governor of the 
city, and implying the precedence among the Beys. Haflan 
was foon expelled by Murad Bey, who held the office till the 
Capitan Pafha arrived from Conftantinople with a fleet, and 
drove him into Upper Egypt. The Pafha, after fatisfying his 
avarice, withdrew, and the Beys returned. Ibrahim Bey, who 
had been a flave of Ali Bey the Great, had however acquired 
fuch authority, that Murad was conftrained to fliare the govern- 
ment with him ; and they have fmce ruled Egypt, Ibrahim as 
Shech-el-bellad^ and Murad as Defter-ddr. Mutual jealoufies 
prevail between them, each feeking the deftrudlion of the other. 
They however confpire together to recruit the number of the 
Mamluks, and to colled treafure from all quarters. 
Thefe are confidered as ufurpers by the Beys of Upper 
Egypt, who are favoured by the Porte ; one of whom, named 
Ali, contrived to efcape from Said into Syria, where he courted 
the neareft Pafha, Jezzar of Akka, to fupport their intereft; but 
that potent and able leader refufed to liften to his fuggefl:ions, 
or amufed him with falfe hopes. 
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