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she fainted at last, having received fourteen deep wounds, besides numerous slight cuts on her hands and arms. This had occurred four days before I saw her, but she was carried on an angereb to the station, and the man who had done the deed was brought with her in a shouber. He seemed to consider it only a joke, and laughed and chaffed about it with every one ; however, the Pasha did not think it a laughing matter, I am glad to say, but hung him. The poor girl was in a sad state, and had she been a European would have died long before I saw her ; but natives can bear wonderfully much.

I never met with any one so brave as she, for although I had to stitch up her wounds and also perform a very painful operation on her, she never flinched. She was very grateful ; and when I left she entreated to go with me, and suggested that she should be carried with us until she had quite recovered, but it was of course impossible to accede to her request. For four days she had very high fever, but I left her with the superficial wounds nearly healed, no fever, and with every prospect of a good recovery.

We found the Pasha one day in a great rage ; he had just heard that a man named Mesadaglia, who had been made governor of Fascher, had, notwithstanding Gressi's protest, hanged Abdulgassin, who was one of the few surviving of Suleiman's sandjaks.

This was a great piece of folly, for although the man