AN ADVENTURER. Tl he, this old soldier of the empire, had with his own hand flogged and cut the wretched girl with a kurbasch, till wearied out he had, to make the punishment complete, thus bound and exposed her to the sun's beams, that the cuts might smart the longer ; nor would these worthies consent even now to put an end to their barbarities, and madame most particularly showed her total ignorance of mercy. Pity such a woman should boast European blood ! My brother came home, when I soon remarked something unpleasant had befallen him, and set about questioning him. " If you will promise to keep cool," he said, and told me the story ; but no remonstrance was of any use ; I was already dressed and soon on my legs ; so buckling on my sword, and taking up my 10| lb. iron staff, well known in Chartum, and from which I was nicknamed Abu Nabut (the father of the stick), I set off at a pace that soon left my brother behind, who followed, fearing some mischance. Over the low but bolted court-door I beheld the poor girl, and, as I was afterwards told, shouted in furious tones for Vigoureux but he, though in all haste, held it advisable to unbind the girl ere he admitted me. At first I was furious, but he called his wife to the rescue, and as her interference prevented my punishing him on the spot, I grew calmer, and at last cooled down. He, after this, told me, as he had done before, of a curious escape he had made when in former days pursued by our black hussars, by bending down over his horse's neck while urging him to his utmost speed ; he had to thank his carbine, slung across his back, that lie was not sliced into ribbons.

This ci-devant corporal of the Grand Army has now been sixteen years in Egypt, having arrived in those times when all Franks were appointed, at their own clioice, to high offices and good pay. Himself a soldier, he soon obtained the office of instructor to a regiment, with a salary of four purses (2000 piastres) a month, and 1000 for clothing or equipment. During his stay in Hedjas, and by his gold and slave dealings in Kordofan (where he passed his time, his gold scales in one hand, a brandy bottle in the other, and his female slaves dancing before him), he saved some 12,(XX) dollars,— all the more easily done as he spent little on himself, his habits being low and mean, and he being well skilled in the art of living on others. With the Pascha's leave he then went r 4