MOHAMMED DIN.—MURDER OF HIS FRIENDS. 223 dirty ferda ; two thick posts had been driven into the ground, to which he was chained heavily, and in a way more fitting a wild beast than a man. lie would take no medicine from my brother, as he feared poison ; we could not, indeed, understand his Aggera, but his words as translated to us implied that he was ready to die for his race, and even by the fearful death of impalement, with which the Pascha threatened him. Towards evening, the three young men had started on tlieir homeward journey. Next morning we had gone out very early on the hunt, and ere we went far saw thousands of birds hovering in the sky, and too truly foreboding the horrible fate of our acquaintances. We went to the spot over wliich the birds hovered in greatest numbers, and found, some half hour's journey from the camp, the three corpses, lying in their blood, most fearfully disfigured and mutilated. The bloody lances, and the quantity of blood round, showed that our friends had bravely defended themselves, but they offered a horrible spectacle, their eyes having been already })icked out by the birds. That this murder was conmiitted by order of the Pascha admitted of little doubt in our minds, and therefore it behoveil us to bring punishment on him for it. We laid the three corpses on a camel feeding near, and 1 accompanied them into camp and to the Pascha's presence. 1 commenced as accuser against the Hallenga, and bitterly reproached them for such a breach of hospitable duties ; but the Pascha, without any look (»f surprise or displeasure, answered with a mere " Min ara di?" (Who knows it?) accompanied l>y a meaning look at me. and then, by a sign, ordered the removal of the corpses, witliout exchanging anotiier word with me. (ieneral ])ity was felt in th(> camj» for the murdered, and even among the feclingless Turks there was much excitement, when i\h)hannned Khlo, witli a small train, entered to j)ay his respects to the Pascha, or inform him of liis villanous treachery. As at first the I'ascha did not speak to him, which probably my presence might account for, he, according to Turkisli etiquette, had to remain silent, and afterwards, as we were at tlie same time leaving the divan, I, before all his jieople, bitterly reproached him. This he bore in silence, as if he was tlic guilty party, and in his own village of Ilauathi the same was openly asserted by our friends. The Albanian Ab'Iin i>ev was so R