RESOLUTION TO REMAIN. 5 The cowardly priest-rabble now drew off as fast as they had corae; and in the bazaars the Turks had great rejoicings, that we had hei'e thus asserted the sacredness of Europeans' dwellings. But our good Cadi Eifendi had no such matters in his head ; but told us with kind, friendly, but sly look, how much the Effendina (Excellency Achmet Pascha, Governor General of Bellad- Sudan) liad been pleased to hear of two stout brothers like us, each attending to the other during our illnesses, and advised us- from time to time to appear at his Excellency's divan, &c. &c. Although in our own hearts we felt that we had been merely doing our duty, still the acknowledgment of it by strangers much pleased us ; for, as the Italians say, " questi sono fi*atelli ! " We also received tidings from the Pascha, that the private physician of Abbas Pasclia, who was no other than our old friend Di'. Gand, was coming to Chartura. The Cadi also spoke of the pleasant taste of the Spanish Avines, which he, as a Magrabian (Maugrabin), and unprejudiced Mussulman, was aware of, on which my brother at once prescribed and administered to him a glass cf Cardinal, as medicine to strengthen his stomach.

Dr. Gand, an old friend of our Pascha Achmet, with whom he had made a campaign in Arabin, arrived ; and as the Doctor was also an old fellow campaigner of min(>, we having served together as Philhellenists in Greece, in 1822, my intimacy with the Pascha became more repeated and friendly. He had much raised the P.ascha's expectations as to us, and had not hesitated, in Eastern style, to I'ecommend us as universal geniuses, and as honest, honourable men, to whom he, the Pascha, might trust life and limb.

Dr. Gand confided to us that the Pascha meditated a campaign into Darfur, during which we might be of much service to him, and where he would look upon us as his two eyes, as he could not confide fully in any of his own people. On this news, that much excited and interested us, we at once gave up all thoughts of so immediate a departure, and tlie more willingly, as other inducements were held out to us. ly brother was to be made, in place of Soliman Effendi (the renegade Baron dc Pasquali, from Palermo), inspector-general of tlu; medical department of all Bellad-Sudan, as the Pascha no longer could employ a man who had already been guilty of so many poisonings, both in Arabia and B 3