Ten years in Equatoria; . A KHARTOUM DANCING GIRL, IBRAHIM PASHA. 13 El-Golman (Ferocious), used to eat grilled human liver, when hedrank his beer. In order to avenge this act of incendiarism, Defterdar PashaAvas despatched with a large number of troops, composed of Baslii-Bazoiiks; he took the road of Assouan, Wady Haifa, and Dongola,completing his journey partly by water, and j^artly by coasting theNile. King Nemr was not to be found ; he had fled to El-Homran,towards the boundaries of Ethiopia. The rejjrisals made by Defterdar were horrible and the murdersnumberless; no mercy was shown, eve
Ten years in Equatoria; . A KHARTOUM DANCING GIRL, IBRAHIM PASHA. 13 El-Golman (Ferocious), used to eat grilled human liver, when hedrank his beer. In order to avenge this act of incendiarism, Defterdar PashaAvas despatched with a large number of troops, composed of Baslii-Bazoiiks; he took the road of Assouan, Wady Haifa, and Dongola,completing his journey partly by water, and j^artly by coasting theNile. King Nemr was not to be found ; he had fled to El-Homran,towards the boundaries of Ethiopia. The rejjrisals made by Defterdar were horrible and the murdersnumberless; no mercy was shown, even pregnant women werebarbarously disembowelled: thus by slaughter the Egyptian. GARDEN AT IvIIAKTOUM (IKOlEiriY OF THE STATE). boundaries were extended as far as Kordofan. Ibrahim Pasha,who followed Defterdar, extended his conquest as far as WoadMedineh. In 1832 the Viceroy Mohammed Ali, having been in-formed of the existence of gold there, went in person to the Soudanand extended the conquest as far as Fazoklo. Ibrahim Pasha having been sent to wage war in Syria, theViceroy put his own hand to the organisation of the country ; hedistributed the command of the troops, and appointed collectorsof taxes and other officials as a safeguard to order and publicsecurity. The way in which the taxes were appointed and collected wasvery strange ; the payable amount was fixed in proportion to the 14 TEN YEARS IN EQUATURIA. number of pieces of camel manure which were enclosed in a baghauginpc on a tree, and the natives punctually put Maria-Theresathalers in their place. Even in Cairo at the present day, the Sakkah (water-sellers)and the Arab coffee-sellers give their customer
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