FEMALE SLAVES.— TURKISH JEALOUSY. 241 well acquainted with Lim, still his jealousy would not allow us a single peep at the girl. Besides, he seemed 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 countrymen, had bought a couple of pretty girls, and his jealousy was fearfully aroused when they smiled at one of his slaves.

Ilai)pily, the latter escaped death, but came in full career, with his master after him, to seek safety in our recuba. We saw at o"nce what would occur, and let him in, but excluding his master, who stood without with drawn sabre, foaming Avith rage, and demanding his slave, to murder him. The latter, however, aided by our servants, had made his escape through the back-door, and was off again, on wliich 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 cii'cumstances the master was certainly at liberty to take his slavc'.s life, but that Hussein, as Chief Hakim, could make no use of such a right, as he hnd openly and often ])roniised not to do so. He declared l.ewouhllet Hussein Aga taste tlie bastinado, •and gave orders to a Kawass to go and bring him. I liad nothing now for it tlian 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, wlio vras still before it, wliat liad occurred, and advised him to take shelter in tlu; back part of our j'ecuba, wliere he Avould not be seen, snul at once make out the order for tlie freedom of the shive ; that I Avould convey it to the Pascha, as he was certain to demand it from him. Though a few minutes l)efore so brutally savage, he now went at once into the proposal, and 1 lun-ried otV with the manumission to the Pascha, and prayed Iiim not to let any disgraceful punishment fall on the brave Bosiiiak, that miglit be followed bv degradation, and whom he moreover had, by a mere word, brouglit 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