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enraged, that it was only by the united persuasions of the other officers that he was prevented from mounting, along with his wild Albanians, and overtaking and cutting down Mohammed Ehle ; this, had it occurred, would more likely have brought on a general revolt against the Pascha 'himself, as the soldiers have been long loudly murmuring at his ill treatment of them as regards food and pay. Mohammed Ehle had before this, in a battle with the Haddenda, received a lance wound right through the outer part of the breast, directly over the midriff. The Pascha had expressed a wish that my brother should operate on liim, but Joseph did not admire this practice, and had recourse to washng it with opium. When the pious Sheik, from its smell, recognised opium, he would no longer submit to the treatment, because opium in no shape must find its way into the sainted body of a Faki. So my brother let him and his wound, which had already become an ulcer, alone ; he had hoped to have healed it by sj-mpathetic means.

In our hunting excursions, we often visited Ilauathi, as merissa was to be got there, which was not allowed to be introduced or brewed in the camp. The women of the upper orders pass the whole day on their angarcbs, and do not busy themselves in any way ; they anoint their bodies, and wear glass coral, and some real coral in its rough state, round their necks and wrists, as Avcll as silver and horn rings on the latter, the ankles, and above the elbows ; silver rings on the fingers and both thumbs, a small silver ring in their right nostril, and in their ears golden plates.

Their hair lies in small plaited knots close to the head, but one never sees on it the white pomade made from camels' fi\t, so common on the men's. Each house had a hollow in the floor, covered with hoops and a cloth, in which the women squat down on their heels and smoke their pipes ; they also smear their face, and necks to their shoulders, with musk ; the men do the same to their necks, so as to conceal the disagreeable specific smell that the skins of all these dark races emit. We also' hit here upon an establishment where the men had their hair frizzed out after the prevailing fashion before mentioned. Instead of a comb a piece of pointed wood was used, Avhich they often leave sticking in the hair, so that it may serve to scratch the head