AND ANECDOTES.

' 5 afterwards came the other man, and saw the body of his friend, whom he recognized. On expostulating with the liberator, the latter replied, ** I have executed my engagement to liberate your friend ; I am entitled to my reward : what has happened to him since his liberation is no concern of mine ; see you to that. But I should inform you, that soon after his liberation, I saw a man approach, and fearing that I was discovered, I ran and hid myself under a rock. In a short time I returned and found your friend weltering in his blood. When I approached him, he had just time before he expired to name to me his murderer, who, he said, was the next of kin to the man he had himself killed."—Note, The Shelluhs consider it a duty incumbent on them, each, individually to revenge the blood oftheir family; that they are bound to seek the murderer, if possibly he can be found. Such is their invariable attention to this principle of revenging blood for blood, that I have known instances of men who have relinquished eligible appointments, to go into distant countries, several years after a murder has been committed, to revenge the death of a relation, after becoming, by intervening death, the next of kin of the murdered person.

The lamentable effects of this fatal retaliation is such, that one death often produces twenty murders, and afterwards involves whole kabyls in intestine wars, tj4