ii8 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
Of the fucceeding Sultans we find nothing remarkable ; and 
the Mamluk ariftocracy began to render their ftation more and 
more precarious. 
In 1 50 1 Kanfu El-ghuri was raifed to the throne. 
In 15 16, Selim II. emperor of Conftantinople, having de- 
clared war againft him, defeated and flew him near Aleppo, 
and feized Syria. 
Toman Bey was appointed his fucceffor by the Mamluks. 
On the 24th January 15 17, he loft, at Rodania near Kahira, 
a great battle againft the Othman troops. After another ob- 
ftinate conflid:, Toman Bey was again defeated by Selim, taken 
prifoner, and hanged at one of the gates of Kahira on the J 3th 
April. 
Selim was contented with abolifliing the monarchy of the 
Mamluks, but fufTered their ariftocracy to retain its former 
power, on certain conditions ; the chief of which were, an 
annual tribute, obedience in matters of faith to the Mufti of 
Conftantinople, and the infertion of the name of the Othman 
Emperors in the prayers, and on the coin. 
Syria, its ufual appanage, being withdrawn, Egypt has 
rarely intermeddled with foreign affairs, and the Beys have 
generally been contented with fqueezing the people, and enjoy- 
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