MOHAMMED DIX.— MUUDEll OF HIS FlUENDS. 223 dirty fertla ; two thit-k posts had been driven into the ground, to which he was chained heavily, and in a Avay more fitting a wild beast than a man. lie would take no medicine from my brother, as he feared poison ; Ave could not, indeed, understand his Aggem, but his words as translated to us implied that he was ready to die for his race, and even by the fearful death of impalement, Avith Avhich the Pascha threatened him. Towards evening, tlie three young men had started on their homeward j ourney. Next morning Ave had gone out very early on the hunt, and ere Ave Avent far saAv thousands of birds liovering in the sky, and too truly foreboding the horrible fate of our acquaintances. We Avcnt to the spot over Avhich the birds hovered in greatest numbers, and found, some half hour's journey from the camp, the three corpses, lying in their blood, most fearfully disfigured and nmtilated. The bloody lances, and the quantity of blood round, shoAvcd that our friends had bravely defended themselves, but tliey oifered a horrible spectacle, their eyes having been already picked out by the birds. That this murder Avas committed by order of the Pascha admitted of little doubt in our minds, and therefore it behoved us to bring punishment on him for it. We laid the three corpses on a camel feeding near, and I accompanied them into camp and to the Paseha's presence. 1 connnenced as accuser against the Ilallencra, and bitterly reproached them for such a breach of hospitable duties ; but the Pascha, Avithout any look of surprise or displeasure, ansAvered Avith a mere " Min ara di?" (Who knows it?) accompanied by a meaning look at me, and then, by a sign, ordered the removal of the corpses, Avithout exchanging another AS'ord Avith me. General pity Avas felt in the camp for the murdered, and even among the feelingless Turks there Avas much excitement, AA'hen Mohammed Ehle, Avith a small train, entered to pay his respects to the Pascha, or inform him of his villanous treachery. As at first the Pascha did not speak to liim, Avhich probably my presence might account for, he, according to Turkish etiquette had to remain silent, and afterAvards, as AA'e were at the same time leaving the divan, I, before all his people, bitterly reproached him. This he bore in silence, as if he Avas the guilty party, and in his oAvn village of Ilauathi tlic same Avas openly asserted by our friends. The Albanian Abdin IJey Avas so