TRAYELLED ARAB. 141 sent a confidential servant to bring the fair dame to Bellad-Sudan but while on theirjourney the couple spent and wasted some seventy or eighty purses. On his arrival Ladjam threw the cheating servant into prison, "karakohl," and had him well bastinadoed. He complained to the Pascha, who, having no very kind feelings towards Ladjam, and perhaps angered by the whole story, sentenced the latter to corporal punishment. That the dignity and authority of the higher officers must be much impaired by their being subject to such punishments, follows as a matter of course. Now, the poor Ladjam goes in fear and trembling to wait on the Pascha, and one never hears a word from him while there, unless in answer to a direct question. His major domo, his Mentor, in short, his right hand man, is old Achmet Salaui (from Selva), who already had been long with his father. He says, and what he says is true, that he really looks after Ladjam's interest ; and that, were it not for him, the latter would ere now have been beggared. Achmet is a tall, stately, and, spite of his advanced age, a very handsome man. He is better acquainted with European customs and uses, than any other Turk I ever met with, prides himself not a little on his civilisation, and calls the others blockheads, who have not seen the world, and, for all their stupid pride, know nothing of life, especially of European life and pleasures. "When he pays us a visit, he gives vent to what he still retains of broken Spanish, Italian, and French. He was once, in earlier times, as others have assured us, a well-doing merchant of Tripoli, and worth some 2.5,000 Spanish dollars. lu the course of business he visited many European ports ; life there pleased him only too well, so he gathered up bis coin, and set out on his travels ; during which he visited Paris, Cadiz, Madrid, Naples, Genoa, Venice, Vienna ; and of this last he still remembers the names Prater and Danube. This tour had played the mischief with his treasure, and he at last found himself compelled to pass to Egypt and turn soldier. How much his entertainment of fair dames and kind friends also aided in the devouring of his capital, can easily be imagined. Ho himself often says, " I have never repented I laid out my money in that way ; I have seen the world, and made myself acquainted with it ; I have had my enjoyments, such as no Turk knows, and such as I never will have again. Even now, in my