152 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
Pafha fent to the Shech-el-Belad and Defterddr, defiring them to^ 
meet hiin to confider of providing the ufual Chafne for Con- 
ftantinople, which he faid for fome time had been greatly in 
arrcar. The former rephed, that all which related to the public 
revenue was under the management of his brother Murad ;. 
and that he (Ibrahim) only concerned himfelf with the city, 
and its internal government. The latter gave for anfwer, that 
he had long fmce turned his attention from public affairs to 
his perfonal eafe and fecurity ; that he was now poor, and be- 
come a farmer, cultivating wheat and beans. He contented 
himfelf with referring the Pallia to the younger Beys, who, he 
faid, fhared between them all the public authority. The next 
meflage was direded to Mohammed Bey Elfi, Ibrahim Bey el 
Sogheir, and other of the younger Senjiaks. They replied, that 
if the Paflia fought for money, all their treafures were buried 
in Kara-meiddn*, and he had nothing more to do than to meet 
them there, to become pofTefTed of a part of them. 
The Mamluks commonly exercife on Monday and Friday 
in each week, at a place called Muftabe, between Kahira and 
Mifr-el-attike'. Here they flioot at a mark, and throw the 
jerid. The Beys are often fpedators, and fometimes a£tors. It 
was on one of thefe occafions that HaiTan Bey, who had 
been formerly a flave of Ibrahim Shech-el-Belad^ and in whom 
the latter placed much confidence, being prefent, a mamluk of 
his train, having attempted to difcharge his fufil, Vv^hich miffed 
* A place where the troops are exercifed, and rencontres between oppofing 
parties frequently have had place. 
fire. 
