FEMALE SLAVES.— TURKLSH J ALOUSY. 241 well acquainted with him, still his jealousy would not allow us a single peep at the girl. Besides, he schemed to feel some .superstitious fears about it ; he used to pour on the ground, as a libation to the evil spirits, the first cup of coffee he brewed in the morning. The Bosniak, Hussein Aga. city commandant of Sennaar, who was a friend of ours, and who looked upon us as a kind of countxymen, had bought a couple of pretty girls, and his jealousy was fearfully aroused when they smiled at one of his slaves.

Happily, the latter escaped death, but came in full career, with his master after him, to seek safety in our recuba. We saw at once Avhat would occur, and let liim in, but excluding his master, who stood without with drawn sabre, foaming with rage, and demanding his slave, to murder him. The latter, however, aided by our servants, had made his escape through the back-door, and Avas off again, on which I sent one of my people after him, to tell him to take shelter under the Pascha's roof. As our friend Hussein still continued to conduct himself like a savage, we had to show him our rifles, and I thought it better to go myself to the Pascha, to .save the slave's life. I told the Pascha the case ; he said that under the circumstances the master was certainly at liberty to take his slave's life, but that Hussein, as Chief Hakim, could make no use of such a right, as he liad openly and often promised not to do so. He declared he would let Hussein Aga taste the bastinado, and gave orders to a Kawass to go and bring him. I had nothing now for it than to retire in all haste, send the Kawass to Hussein's hut, and get to my own. In an instant I told the yet raging though somewhat cooled Hussein, who was still before it, what had occurred, and advised him to tak(; shelter in the back part of our recuba, where he would not be seen, and at once make out the order for the freedom of the slave ; that I Avould convey it to the Pascha, as he was certain to demand it from him. Though a few minutes before so brutally savage, he now went at once into the proposal, and I hurried off with the manumission to the Pascha, and prayed him not to let any disgraceful punisliment fall on the l«-ave Bosniak, that might Ije followed by degradation, and whom he moreover had, by a mere word, brought to silence ; and assured him that the Bosniak had given us no offence. However, he must appear before the Pascha, which he did, pale and trembling ; but s2