e the principal officers of the Sultan of Sennaar, and
their suite, who had come to demand terms of peace.

I saw these personages when they arrived. They were two, one a tall thin
elderly man of a mulatto complexion, dressed in green and yellow silks
of costly fabric, with a cap of a singular form, something resembling a
crown, made of the same materials, upon his head. The other was the
same young man who had come a few days past to the Pasha. He was
dressed to-day in silks like the other, except that his head was bare of
ornament. They were accompanied by a fine lad about sixteen, who was,
it is said, the son of the predecessor of the present Sultan. All three
were mounted on tall and beautiful horses, and accompanied by about two
hundred soldiers of the Sultan, mounted on dromedaries, and armed with
broadswords, lances and shields.

When the Pasha was informed of their approach by the Malek of Shendi, he
ordered a halt. The tent of the Pasha was pitched, and the ambassadors
were introduced. They were treated with great attention and liberality
by the Pasha, who, during the day and the course of the evening
following, gave them opportunities enough to be convinced of the immense
superiority of our arms to theirs. During the evening, some star rockets
and bombs were thrown for their amusement and edification. No language
can do justice to their astonishment at the spectacle, which undoubtedly
produced the effect intended by the Pasha--humility and a sense of
inferiority. The next morning at an early hour the army pursued its
march, accompanied by the ambassadors from Sennaar.

About the hour of noon, the outscouts announced to the Pasha that the
Sultan of Sennaar himself was approaching to salute his Excellence. On
his approach, the army received him with the honors due to his rank. He
was conducted to the tent of the Pasha, by the ambassadors he had sent,
where he remained in audience with his Excellence a long time. When the
audience was finished, he and the personages he had before sent to the
Pasha were splendidly habited in the Turkish fashion, and presented with
horses, furnished with saddles and bridles embroidered with gold.[52]

It was on the morning following that the army reached the capital. We
marched in order of battle. The Pasha, accompanied by the Sultan of
Sennaar and his chief servants, in front. On approaching the city, the
army saluted this long wished for town, where they imagined that their
to