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cealed from observation, but search-ligKts being suddenly turned upon the forts at night, showed them to be swarming with men. Things went on with comparative quiet till the 10th of June, although the attitude of the natives was so threatening that no Europeans left their houses except on urgent business.

On that day a sudden uproar was heard, pistols were fired, and the merchants closed their stores and barricaded their doors. Gregory was in the harbour at the time, and, jump- ing into his boat, rowed to the stairs and hurried home. He found that his wife had already disguised herself, and was in readiness to leave. The street was full of excited people. He slipped on his own disguise, darkened his face, and then,

seizing a moment when the crowd had rushed up the street

at the sound of firearms at the other end, hurried down to the boat and rowed ofi to the Simoon.

“ I must return now, dear,” he said. “ I can get in at the back gate— I have the key, as the stores are brought in through that way. I do not think that you need feel any

uneasiness. The row is evidently still going on, but only a few guns are being fired now. Certainly the rascals cannot

be attacking the stores, or you would hear a steady musketry

fire ; by the sound, the riot is principally in the foreign quar-

ter, where the Maltese, Greeks, and Italians congregate. Ho doubt the police will soon put it down.”

The police, however, made no attempt to do so, and per-

mitted the work of massacre to take place under their eyes. Nearly two hundred Europeans were killed. The majprity

of these dwelt in the foreign quarter, but several merchants and others were set upon while making their way to their

offices, and some seamen from the fleet were also among the

victims. The British consul was dragged out of his carriage and severely injured; the consulate was attacked, and several Frenchmen were killed in the streets.

The Khedive hurried from Cairo on hearing the news.

Arabi was now sending some of his best regiments to Alex-