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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 (Excel-

lency 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 to-

gether 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 East-

ern 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 in- ducements 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 Bel-

lad-Sudan, as the Pascha no longer could employ a man who had

already been guilty of so many poisonings, both in Arabia and

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