BIOGEAPHY OF MOOSA PASHA. 
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The following brief summary will show the subsequent career of 
the man whose vengeance^ whilst in the pursuit of my duties as 
British Consul^ for the protection of commerce and my individual 
interests as a trader^ I had drawn down upon myself. 
After the disastrous retreat of the Egyptian army from Syria,, 
by way of recompense for bis sufferings^ Moosa Effendi was made 
a major and sent to the Soudan. In 1842^ the then Governor- 
General,, Ahmed Pasha,, appointed him colonel in a regiment of 
infantry, and subsequently Governor of Khartoum. The subse- 
quent Governor- General, Ahmed Pasha Menekli, appointed him 
his aide-de-camp, a commander of irregular horse, and at dif- 
ferent periods created him Governor of the provinces of Dongola, 
Berber, and Kordofan. The next Governor- General, Hhalid Pasha, 
removed him from Kordofan, and made him his aide-de-camp, and 
in this capacity he commanded the troops that were sent against 
the Selaem Bagara Arabs. In an engagement that took place, 
Moosa Bey took an active part, and singling out an Arab chief. 
Sheikh Ahmed, he encountered and compelled him to fly. Both 
were well mounted, and the sheikh although he could not be 
overtaken, was forced to drive his horse into the Nile. Moosa 
would not follow, but swore, and discharged his pistols at him, but 
missing, he pardoned him. 
The result of a second razzia, and the abominable treatment of 
his prisoners, T have before, in the course of these pages, re- 
counted. 
Notwithstanding his dismissal from the service that followed the 
above inhuman act, he was re-employed in 1853 as Governor of 
Keneh, in Upper Egypt, and the next act we find him distinguish- 
ing himself in, is, with the aid of a battalion of infantry, supported 
by artillery, in cold blood murdering three hundred Megribbin 
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