house of the Sultan of Sennaar, which
had been prepared for his accommodation.

A few days after our arrival, a slave informed the Pasha that the Sultan
of Sennaar, before our arrival, had thrown into the river some cannon.
The Pasha ordered search to be made; four iron guns were discovered by
divers, and were dragged on shore. They appeared to me to be ordinary
ship guns; no mark or inscription was found on them to enable me to
judge where they were fabricated. I believe them however to have been
originally obtained of the Portuguese by the Abyssinians, from whom the
people said the Sultan of Sennaar had taken them in some ancient war
between the two kingdoms.

On the 19th of Ramadan, a party of Bedouins were ordered by the Pasha to
go in pursuit of some hundred black slaves of the Sultan of Sennaar, who
some time before our arrival had run away, taking with them some of his
best horses. On the 23d they returned, bringing with them between five
and six hundred negroes of both sexes. But on Malek Shouus going to the
Pasha and representing to him that these people were not the fugitives
in question, the Pasha ordered them to be immediately released and to
return to their respective villages.

About the same time the Pasha detached Cogia Achmet with thirteen
hundred cavalry and three pieces of artillery to the upper country
of Sennaar between the Bahar el Abiud and the Nile to secure its
submission.[56] And on the 26th of the moon the Divan Effendi was sent
with three hundred men across the Nile, to secure that part of the
kingdom of Sennaar which lies on the east side of the Nile.[57]

Seven days after our arrival in Sennaar I put in execution a resolution
the state of my health obliged me to determine on, and demanded of the
Pasha permission to return to Cairo. I represented to him, that all
the critical operations of the campaign were now happily concluded, and
crowned with the fullest success; and that, therefore, he could have no
particular need of me any longer. I stated to him that repeated sickness
during the campaign had rendered my health very infirm, and that a
residence of four months at Sennaar, during the rainy season, would
probably destroy me; and as my presence for that time at least could
be no ways necessary, I requested him to grant the permission demanded,
telling him that if, after the rainy season was finished, he should
think proper to recall me to camp that I would obey the summons. The
Pasha