A CHASUA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.' 237 he is by birth a Bey of one of the first Albanian famiUes, and smiled sarcastically Avhen he prayed to be allowed to set out immediately ; and at last said to him, " Your men and horses are ill, but, if you choose to go alone, you may." This finished the business. The Pascha, indeed, could not put up with the pride of this Arnaut, who could see in the Pascha merely a Mameluke and a slave.

The tribute laid on the land of the Beni-Amcr, in camels and cattle, has only come in part to hand. There are yet due SoOO cattle and 1300 camels, which the blood-sucker Hassan EtFendi must ga and bring in. Soon after his setting out, there was much talk of the cruelties which he was exercising on the natives. Although the people, on the whole, remained quiet, and their chiefs, not being able to assert their authority, had tied, still Hassan had allowed 200 persons to be pitilessly shot down, and besides had carried away whole herds of camels from the Haddenda, with whom we were on terms of peace. These, at once, took their revenge ; burned Gos Rajeb, murdered some twenty merchants, and plundered the magazines of corn laid up there for our retreat. Almost all the soldiers returned ill, Avhen the continued rains foi-ced them to retire to camp. To give tlie Pascha actual proof of their courage, they had cut off the ears of the slain ; and he, in return, ordered a present to the soldiery. A servant had been compelled to cut off the ears, and now he lies yonder firmly bound, and raving mad. All stealers of camels, Avhen caught 'n\ fiagranti, are immediately deprived of their ears, as the Pascha also pays for them. That many lose their ears who had no thought of theft, is easily imagined, as the operation is done on the instant and spot. Besides many prettj' women and children, Hassan Kffendi brought in 2900 cattle, and 7000 sheep. He had, also, laid hands on eighty camels for himself ; these he gave out he had bought. The camels, though handsome animals, showed little docility, as they live among these natives as untrained as in the desert ; they were sent off to Cairo for sale. Although Hassan cheats the soldiers in an unheard-of manner, keeps back their corn, has cows stolen and slain and sells them, milk, flesh, and all such things, to the soldiers, at a high price, and has before been imprisoned for his roguery, and a second time, for similar tricks, degraded, still the Pascha has advanced him to