[165]Of him we have an excellent work on the Olemas of Upper Egypt. (It is among my MSS. sent to England.)
[166]Known in Europe by the name of Saladin.
[167]This Kenz el Dowla was the Egyptian governor of the town, who had rebelled against Salah eddyn, and had marched against Cairo with an army of blacks and of Arabs. Malek el Aadel, one of the brothers of Salah eddyn, defeated him in 570, in a great battle near the village of Toud; and soon after he was killed. I am ignorant whether this Kenz el Doula has any thing in common with the Beni Kenz; from the pedigree given of it by Macrizi, in his history of Egypt, called el Selouk, from which I have made this extract (السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك للمقرزي) he is said to be descended from Ibn el Doul, from whom he took the name.
[168]See [note 77.]
[169]See [note 78.]
[170]By the ascension of Salah eddyn to the throne of Egypt.
[171]Elephantine.
[172]The history of similar attacks forms the subject of many paintings on the walls of the ancient temples of Upper Egypt. See [note 79.]
[173]In this year a terrible famine destroyed the population of Upper Egypt. 17.000 souls died at Kous, 11,000 at Siout, 15,000 at Haou, of those only who were regularly buried. (V. Macrizi’s chapter of Upper Egypt.)
[174]See [note 80.]