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the power enjoyed by his predecessors, being
compelled to exist on a small salary totally
inadequate to his condition. In 1013 he
attempted to revolt, and actually fled to the
Bedowins, but at length surrendered him
self, and is now in Cairo. The present She
riffs, Ibn Oou, of theBaratti tribe, was raised
to this dignity in 1027. In 1031 intelligence
reached Jiddah that Ibrahim Pasha, in his
operations against Syria, had sustained a
severe defeat before the walls of Acre, and
that the situation of Mohammed ’AH was in
consequence very precarious.
The ready belief which these reports ob
tained in Jiddah and Mecca plainly indicated
the state of public feeling. Every one we
met triumphantly and with confidence pre
dicted the final success of the Sultan.
In this posture of affairs, Turkey-bel-Mass
and Zemen Aga—the one a Georgian by
birth, and commanding the cavalry ; the other
an Albanian general of infantry—made a de
mand on Kourshid Bey, the Governor of
Mecca, for twenty months’ arrears of pay, at
the same time urging the claims of their sol
diers, who had served with them for a similar
