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AND ANECDOTES. '291 shipment of my property; when taking a ride along the beach, I met an Arab, with a basket before him, and a foot sticking out of it. " Salam u xiliky I exclaimed, " And what have you got there ?"— " Alik Salam** said the Arab, ** I ha:ve got Buhellesa's head and feet here ; I killed him myself; and the khalif Delemy has sent me with them to the Prince. " Dost thou think the Prince will reward me ?"— "Certainly," said I, "for such an essential service." The Prince gave the Arab one hundred duckets : the guns were fired ; and the head and feet were hung over an embrasure of the round battery, facing the south. Thus terminated the career of Buhellesa.
A short time after this, I was on a visit to Delemy, and he accompanied me to the field of battle ; which was an undulating plain, not unlike that of Waterloo : and the house to which Buhellesa made his escape, was not unlike the hotel de la Belle Alliance on the plains of Waterloo, having, however, a, flat roof.
Shelluhs : their Revenge and Retaliation. A Shelluh, of the province of Suse, had been a servant in the house of Mr. Hutchison, * Worth hs. each, but equal to 100/., or more, in that country, U