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CHAPTER XXXV.
MISSION TO BAGDAD.

FTER the assassination of Touran Chah at
Pharescour, the Mamelukes were very much at
a loss on whom to bestow the crown so long worn by
the chiefs of this family of Saladin. - In their per-
plexity they elevated Chegger Edour to the throne,
and proclaimed her ‘Queen of the Mussulmen.’
But the affairs of the sultana did not go smoothly.
Moslems were aroused at the elevation of a woman
to sovereignty; and the Caliph of Bagdad, when
asked to send the rich robe which the caliphs were
in the habit of sending by way of investiture to the
Sultans of Egypt, demanded with indignation if a
man capable of reigning could no ionger be found.
Kvery day tlie confusion increased and the trouhles
multiplied.

In order to make matters more pleasant, the
sultana associated a Mameluke named Turcoman
with her in the government, and even condescended
so far as to unite herself with him in marriage.
But the aspect of affairs became gradually more
alarming, and Chegger Edour, yielding to the
prevailing discontent, abdicated in favour of her