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* * e and that it was best for the Chamlerlain to go and ask them what
they wainted before any step was taken. This view, however, did not please the
Sultan, who turned away from him. Thereupon the Deputy-governor of Al-Kark
said: ' All this comes from the Christian secretaries, for the people late them,
and my advice is that the Sultan should take no step against the people, but
should remove the Christians from the Divan.' This advice also displeased the
Sultan, who said to the Emir and Chamberlain Alamas: ' Go and take four of
tihe Emirs with thee, and cut the people down from the place where thou leavest
tle hippodrome until thou comest to the Gate of Zawilah, and strile with the
sword among them from the Gate of Zawilah to the Gate of Victory, without
sparing any;' and to the WVal of Cairo he said: 'Ride to the Gate of
Al-Lawak and the neighbourhood of the river, and let none pass without seizing
him and bringing him to tle Castle, and if thou dos t not bring those who llave
stoned my deputy (he meant Kar-im ad-Din), by my head I will hang thee instead
of them;' and he sent with him a detachment of his body-Mamelukes. After
a hesitation onl the part of the Emirs to carry out the commanll(, so that thle
matter became kltoen, and the mlet lto one, eslpecially 1o slaves or attendants
of tle Emies, tlen at last they set out; the Iews was spread in Cairo, all the
lbazaars were shut, and an unheard-of sorrow fell upon the people. The Emirs
went forth, but found on their long march not a single person until they
reached the Gale of Victory; but the Wtal at the Gate of Al-Lawakl in the
neighbourhood of BGls.k and at the Water-Gate seized a crowd of rabble, sailors,
and low people, bys which actionl such fear was spread that a great number
removed to the province of Al-Jizah on the western bank. Tile Sultan returned
from the hippodrome and found on his way, until le reached thle Castle, not one
of tle people; as soon as he arrived at the Castle he sent to tle WVal, and
told him to hasten to come to him; and the sun was not yet set when he
appeared with about 200 people iwhom he had seized. Then the Sultan made
a division of them, and ordered that some should be hanged, others cut in two,
others deprived of tlleir hands; then they all cried: 'O Lord, that is not
lawful, it was not we who stoned him.' The Emir and Cupbearer Baktimur
and the other Emirs present wept out of sympathy with them, and did not
quit the Sultan until he said to the WAli: 'Divide off a part of them and
erect posts from the Gate of Zawilah to the Castle in the Htorse-Market and
hang them up by their hands.' Next morning, being Sunday, they were all
hung up from the Gate of Zawllah to the Horse-Market, some of them being
distinguished and well-dressed persons; the Emirs who passed by them expressed
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