30 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
whole fifteen hundred were destroyed in one morning, and
the army that had been assembled under the pretence of
marching against the Wahabbees, were immediately sent in
pursuit of the Mamelouks, who were followed beyond Ibrim
in Nubia, and their numbers reduced to about eleven hun-
dred ; who, under Ibrahim Bey, retired to Dongola, where
they conquered a territory from the petty chiefs of the
country on the west bank of the Nile*. The Pasha judged
it expedient to leave them there unmolested, satisfied with
his success; though, according to the opinion of some of his
friends, impolitic in not totally exterminating them before
he turned his thoughts to any new war.
The whole of Egypt being thus under one master, it was
divided into a certain number of provinces and districts.
Upper Egypt was put under the eldest son of the Pasha,
who first had the title of Be}T, and afterwards of Pasha of two
tails; Gizeh, Alexandria, and Faioum, under beys; Rosetta,
Damietta, Damanhour, under agas ; the districts under ca-
shiefs ; and villages under caimacams.
The war against the Wahabbees was carried on by the
Pasha with all the activity of an European general: he drove
* Volney gives a short but interesting account of the formation of this both-,
under the successors of Selah Eddin, p. 96, vol. i. English translation.
whole fifteen hundred were destroyed in one morning, and
the army that had been assembled under the pretence of
marching against the Wahabbees, were immediately sent in
pursuit of the Mamelouks, who were followed beyond Ibrim
in Nubia, and their numbers reduced to about eleven hun-
dred ; who, under Ibrahim Bey, retired to Dongola, where
they conquered a territory from the petty chiefs of the
country on the west bank of the Nile*. The Pasha judged
it expedient to leave them there unmolested, satisfied with
his success; though, according to the opinion of some of his
friends, impolitic in not totally exterminating them before
he turned his thoughts to any new war.
The whole of Egypt being thus under one master, it was
divided into a certain number of provinces and districts.
Upper Egypt was put under the eldest son of the Pasha,
who first had the title of Be}T, and afterwards of Pasha of two
tails; Gizeh, Alexandria, and Faioum, under beys; Rosetta,
Damietta, Damanhour, under agas ; the districts under ca-
shiefs ; and villages under caimacams.
The war against the Wahabbees was carried on by the
Pasha with all the activity of an European general: he drove
* Volney gives a short but interesting account of the formation of this both-,
under the successors of Selah Eddin, p. 96, vol. i. English translation.