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About the same time the Pasha detached Cogia Achmet with thirteen hundred cavalry and three pieces of artillery to the upper country of Sennaar between the Bahar el Abiud and the Nile to secure its submission. And on the 26th of the moon the Divan Effendi was sent with three hundred men across the Nile, to secure that part of the kingdom of Sennaar which lies on the east side of the Nile.

One day a man coming to the Cogia asked him for the loan of his ass. 'Stay here, said the Cogia, 'whilst I go and consult the animal.

Abul answered that it was. He also asked to be allowed to take his oath that the jar had not been disturbed after it was left in his warehouse until Ali Cogia had returned and removed it. "That is not necessary at present," answered the boy. "First let some expert olive merchants be brought in." Several olive dealers, the most expert in the city, had been sent for, and they now came forward.

One day Nasr Eddin Efendi went to the mountain to cut wood; after he had cut the wood he loaded his ass, and began to drive him home. The Efendi's ass, however, would hardly move. A person coming up, said, 'Put a little sal ammoniac into the of the ass. The Cogia finding a little sal ammoniac, put it in; whereupon the ass began to run so quickly that the Cogia was left far behind.

Whilst performing the rakoua the man who was behind him perceiving the Cogia's seized hold of them and squeezed them, whereupon the Cogia, seizing hold of those of the man who was before him, squeezed them too; the man, turning round and perceiving that it was Cogia Efendi himself, said, 'Halloa, what are you about? 'You must ask the man behind me, said the Cogia.

One day a man came to the house of the Cogia and asked him to lend him his ass. 'He is not at home, replied the Cogia. But it so happened that the ass began to bray within. 'O Cogia Efendi, said the man, 'you say that the ass is not at home, and there he is braying within. 'What a strange fellow you are! said the Cogia. 'You believe the ass, but will not believe a grey-bearded man like me.

'O wife, said the Cogia, 'what is the matter with you; is the broth hot? 'Dear Efendi, said the wife, 'my mother, who is now dead, loved broth very much; I thought of that, and wept on her account. The Cogia thinking that what she said was truth, took a spoonful of the broth, and burning his mouth began to cry and bellow.

Nasr Eddin Efendi had an old ox which had exceedingly great horns, and so far apart, that it was possible for a person to sit between them. Every time that the ox drew nigh the Cogia was in the habit of saying to himself, 'How I should like to sit between his horns, and calculating as to the possibility of doing so. One day the ox came and laid himself down before the house.

A fellow perceiving him, instantly snatched the counterpane from off his shoulders and ran away. The Cogia, shivering with cold, went in again; and when his wife asked him the cause of the noise, he said, 'It was on account of our counterpane: when they got that the noise ceased at once.

On seeing it, Tamerlank said to himself, 'The Cogia is making game of me, and was very angry, and demanded, 'How happens it that this goose has but one foot? Said the Cogia, 'In our country all the geese have only one foot.