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brated his accession to the thorne by

otLdHS ing Ills DfOtner.
Ei-Ashrat, one of the near succeeding
rulers, having been cast into prison by
EyDek, successful rebel, died there.
being bowstrung in his cell by two
turkish mutes after having been de-
IlDerately deprived of food and water
for ten days. The head, with it's black
ened tongue, was brought to Eybek,
who. observing that the dead rulers
palate was not sufficiently discOlored to
indicate the extreme agonies of thirst,
ordered both mutes to be executed.
Eybek soon rouSod the jealousy of his
beautiful and ambitious wife. and he
was assassinated by her orders while in
BATH hot superheated steam being
forced down his throat until life was ex-
tinct. This occurred in 1851. in her
turn she was beaten to death, not many
days after, by the wooden clogs of the
female slaves of another wife of Eybek,
anG her corpse was exposed for three
days in the moat Of the citadel.
El-Melik EtMansoor had a peaceful
death, but his son El-Ashraf Khaled.
who rendered himself famous by the
siege and capture of AGRA, the last
stronghold of the crusaders in Syria.
met peculiar end. Many thousands of
the inhabitants of AGRA had been mas
sacred, and 10000 prisoners who pre-
sented themselves before the sultan and
begged for quarter were slaughtered in
cold blood. Ten years afterward, in
1894, El-AShraf was decoyed into sum-
mer house
by Celebrated beauty
whose family he had slaughtered at
AGRA, but whom he had reserved as an
addition to his harem. While she played
soft music to him he was seized from
behind by huge Nubian, who gagged
and bound him. Fhe gigantic slave
then proceeded to knead his body by
peculiar process, so that he was bruised
TO death without bone i'll his body
being broken. El-Ashraf fought for his
life, and piteously appealed to the girl
to save him, but she sat there and
played soft music until he died.
The Sultan Hassan deserves somf
mention. He fell by the swords of his
Memlooks in the splendid mosque which
he built in the open space beneath the
citadel of Cairo. The three sons of En-
Nasir, who preceded him. were either
eXiled or put to death. El-Mansoor, wb0
succe eded him, was depOsed in SIX
months, and El-Amraf Shaaban, the son
OF Hasa, was overcome by the intrigues
of the fanieant catiphs and the struggles
of the now too powerful emeers, by the
latter OF whom he was strangled while
at prayers.
Ala-ed-Deen lost his throne and life
together in 1888 by poison administered
by order of Barbrook, the first prince OF
the dynasty of the CircassIan MenloOks.
BarbrOOk died suddenly" some years
later, ''much beloved by his subjects"
El-Melik Farag, his son and successor,
tell prey to internecine troubles. He
was beheaded in the month Of SafOr,
14l2, and his corpse was left unburied.
The record of the rest of the period
during which Egypt was governed by
native rulers terminates in the death of
ToOman Bey, who hanged himself over
the Bah ZuneYleh, the place of execu-
ton for common malefactOrS III Cairo.
1t would be tedious and Improbable
10 follow the details Of Turkish misrule
and tyranny which are from this time
on presented to the student Of Egyptian
history. For nearly two centuries the
successive paShas were mostly Obeyed,
for they ruled literally with rods OF
iron. Ali Bey is the
Next Great Figure in Egyptian His-
tory
which claims attention. After a period
of good and vigorous government he
was conspired against by Mohammed
Bey, IA man he had loaded with favors
He fell into an ambuscade near Es-Sali-
AlOC Oli oilu hONluCQ ny OnC VI ZIG
Memlooks, carried to the citadel and
poisoned by Mohammed Bey.
The next remarkable assassination in
Egypt was, strange to relate, not that of
an Egyptian, but of French officer
named Kleber, one of Napoleon's great
est generals, who, during the French
occupation of Egypt. totally defeated
10000 men under the grand vizier at
Heliopolis. and returned to Cairo to
quell an lnSurrectiOn of the inhabitants.
This distinguished officer was about this
time asSassinated in the garden of his
palace by fanatic, who was subse-
quently impaled in the great square,
then a lake called the Ezbekeeyeh. in
Cairo, and miSeraDly fingered for the
space of three days before death put an
end to his sufferings.
With characteristic brutality, on the
departure of the French soldiers, many
of whom had either married Moslem
women or bought female slaves of the
same faith, these unfortunates were
promptly tied up in sacks and drowned
Cold Steel for Dinner.
Tohir Pasha. who assumed the gov
eminent on the flight of khusraf, had
the hardihood TO refuse to pay his
troops. and was bayoneted from behind
while at dinner. Ali PaSha, who land
ed at Alexander with an imperial firman
constituting him the pasta of Egypt,
der guard of forty-fve men toward
the Syrian frontier, and about week
after the news was received that in a
Skirmish with some of his own soldiers
he had fallen mortally wounded.
The death of Ali Pasha was succeeded
almost Immediately by the assassina
ton of Hessyn Bey El-Elfee, one OF
the claimants to the throne, by the
emissaries of his rival, El-Bardessen.
The unfortunate country then, in
May, 105, fell into the hands of the
Mehemet Ali, who, born in 1868. at
Cavalla, subsequently ruled her desti-
MES forty years. Mehemet Ali, of
whom so many conflicting opinions have
been entertained, and whose massacre
of the Memlooks is undoubtedly great
blot on his character. died peaceably on
Aug. 8. 1910. The entire constitution
of the government of Egypt is his work,
and undoubtedly lis most enduring
monument.
The taking off of Mehemet Ali's sue
cessor, Ibrahim, occurred after a short
reign of two months. Ibrahim was sue
ceeded by his nephew, Abbas, misera-
BILE voluptuary, who "died suddenly" in
j uly, 1854.
The reign of Ismail, his quarrel with
the European powers, and his deposi.
ton from power, occupy most of the
remaining period of Egyptian history.
In an unbusiness-like attempt to inau.
gurate vast system of internal reforms
he so crippled the financial resources of
the country as to bring about the inter
ference of the powers. Pressure was
brought to bear upon his sUzerain, the
sultan; he was forced to abdicate, and
Prince Tewfik, his eldest son. was pro
claimed khedive In June, 1879.
SHEEP TAXED TO DEATH.