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WAR WITH A COURDISTAN CHIEF. 
Turkish government, and was placed more immediately under that of 
the Pashalik of Bagdad. Happening to offend the Pasha, who in con¬ 
sequence dispossessed him of his territory, he fled to the Persian 
court, and implored its assistance. The Persians mediated a reconcilia¬ 
tion between the parties, and the Gourd was restored to his government, 
upon condition that he paid an annual tribute to Persia, whilst he de¬ 
posited his son in the hands of the King as a hostage of his good faith. 
Some time after this, the Porte was displeased with the conduct of 
Suleiman, Pasha of Bagdad, and sent the Reis Effendi to depose 
him, impowering him by a firman to appoint Abdulla Aga to that 
post.^ When the Reis Effendi approached Bagdad, he found that his 
power was too insignificant to depose the Pasha, who had prepared 
himself for a stout resistance, and therefore applied to the Gourd 
Abdurakhman for assistance. The latter having again become a pow¬ 
erful chief, supplied the Reis Effendi with a large body of troops* 
fought a battle with his old enemy of Bagdad, overcame and slew him. 
The Reis Effendi was then proceeding to put his orders into execution, 
when Abdurakhman, arrogant in success, demanded as a reward for his 
services, that a friend of his whose name very opportunely was Ab¬ 
dulla, should be appointed Pasha, in the room of the Abdulla who 
was intended by the Turkish government to fill that office. 
As it was not in the power of the Reis Effendi to punish the inso¬ 
lence of the Gourd, the wrong Abdulla was made Pasha. 
Abdurakhman Pasha becoming more elated by the success of his 
measures, grew lax in his agreements with the Persian government, and 
required that his son should be restored to him. The son, in the mean¬ 
while, had been transferred from the court of the King to Mahomed 
Ali Mirza at Kermanshah, the boundary of whose government touched 
that of the Gourds. The Pasha collected his forces, which by their 
numbers and their late exploits had become formidable, and threat¬ 
ened to attack Mahomed Ali Mirza even in Kermanshah if his son was 
* Abdulla Aga was the very respectable Turk mentioned in my former journal as living 
a retired life at Bushire, page 12. 
