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fo powerful that they rejeded the applications of the latter. All 
continued quiet till I went to Upper Egypt. 
I fhall now endeavour to give fome idea of the moft cele- 
brated Beys, who at prefent have the fway in this unhappy 
country. Ibrahim Bey is upwards of fixty years of age, a tall 
thin man, with an aquiline nofe. He is very avaricious, but 
by his treafures and connections has fecured a large party. His 
Mamluks may amount to about a thoufand. Though reputed 
to manage the fabre with dexterity, he has nothing of enter- 
prife in his charadler, which has the mean rapacity of the 
vulture, nothing of the daring flight of the eagle. 
Murad Bey, once his fuperlor, now his equal in power, has 
paffed a life of tumult and activity. Originally a flave of Mo- 
hammed Bey Abu-dhahab, at the head of a detachment of his 
mailer's Mamluks, he defeated and made prifoner Ali Bey the 
great, whofe death fhortly after enfued. Murad is detefted by 
the Porte. He is an energetic charadler, and his profufion is 
fupplied by his rapacity : about forty-five years of age, of a 
replete habit of body. His Mamluks, in 1796, amounted to 
about feventeen hundred. His party, though not fo numerous 
as that of Ibrahim Bey, is yet of a more decided and military 
ftamp. Murad Bey is married to the widow of his mailer, the 
daughter of the celebrated Ali Bey. ^ 
Next in power is Mohammed Bey Elfi, a young man of not more 
than thirty-five years: his name imports that he was bought for 
a thoufand patackes. His mailer was Murad Bey, jufl mentioned. 
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