the most powerful state to the north of Sennaar. They› The Sheygya Arabs are an interesting people, and form are at present divided into many tribes :

These different people are continually at war with each other, and their youth make plundering excursions as far as Darfour, to the west, and Wady Halfa, to the north. They all fight on horseback, in coats of mail, which are sold to them by the merchants of Suakin and Sennaar. Fire-arms are not common among them, their only weapons being a lance, target, and sabre; they throw the fance to a great distance with much dexterity, and always carry four or five lances in the left hand, when charging an enemy. They are all mounted on Dongola stallions, and are as famous for their horsemanship as the Mamelouks were in Egypt; they train their horses to make violent springs with their hind legs when gallopping; their saddles resemble the drawings I have seen of those of Abyssinia, and, like the Abyssinian horsemen, they place the great toe only in the stirrup. It is from the Sheygya that the people of Mahass are supplied with saddles. The Sheygya are a perfectly independent people, and possess great wealth, in corn and cattle; like the Bedouins of Arabia, they pay no kind of tribute to their chiefs, whose power is by no means so great as that of the chiefs of Dongola. They are renowned for their hospitality; and the person of their guest, or companion, is sacred. If the traveller possesses a friend among them, and has been plundered on the road, his property will be recovered, even if it has been taken by the king. They all speak Arabic exclusively, and many of them write and read it. Their learned men are held in great respect by them; they have schools, wherein all the sciences are taught which form the course of Mohammedan study, mathematics and astrononomy excepted. I have seen books, copied at Merawe, written in as fine a hand as that of the scribes of Cairo. Whenever young men are sent to them. from the adjacent countries for instruction, the chief of the Olema distributes them amongst his acquaintances, in whose houses they are lodged and fed for as many years as they choose to remain.'

When I reached the camp of Mohammed Kashef, he was į value of half a dozen slaves, contributions would, in all proba not present, but occupied with his brother, in taking posses- bility, have been levied upon me by the governors, and I ́ sion of the castle. His people crowded round me and my should have been detained much longer than I could have guide, desirous to know what business had brought me among wished.' them, and supposing that I belonged to the suite of two Mamelouk Begs, of whose arrival at Derr they had already been apprized. Shortly afterwards, Mohammed came over from the opposite bank with his suite, and I immediately went to salute him. Born of a Darfour slave, his features resembled those of the inhabitants of Soudan, but without any thing of that mildness which generally characterizes the Negro countenance. On the contrary, his physiognomy indicated the worst disposition; he rolled his eyes at me like a madman; and, having drank copiously of palm-wine at the castle, he was so intoxicated, that he could hardly keep on his legs. All his people now assembled in and around his open hut; the vanquished rebels likewise came, and two large goat skins palin wine were brought in, which was served out to the company in small cups, neatly made of calabashes; a few only spoke Arabic; the Kashef himself could scarcely make himself understood: but I clearly found that I was the topic of conversation. The Kashef, almost in a state of insensibility, had not yet asked me who I was, or what I came for. In the course of half an hour, the whole camp was drunk: musquets were then brought in, and a feu-de-joie fired, with ball, in the hut where we were sitting. I must confess, that at this moment I repented of having come to the camp, as a un might have been easily levelled at me, or a random ball have fallen to my lot. I endeavoured several times to rise, but was always prevented by the Kashef, who insisted upon my getting drunk with him; but, as I never stood more in need of my senses, I drank very sparingly. Towards noon, the whole camp was in a profound sleep; and, in a few hours after, the Kashef was sufficiently sober to be able to talk rationally to me. I told him that I had come into Nubia, to visit the ancient castles of Ibrim and Say, as being the remains of the empire of Sultan Selym; that I had had recommendations from Esne to himself and his two brothers, and that I had come to Mahass merely to salute him and his brother, conceiving that I should be guilty of a breach of good manners if I quitted Say without paying my respects to them. Unfortunately, my letters from Esne, addressed to the three brothers, were in the hands of Hassan Kashef, who would not return them to me when I quitted Derr, saying, that I should not want them, as he had not given me permission to go beyond Sukkot. My story was, in consequence, not believed: "You are an agent of Mohammed," said the Kashef's Arabic secretary; but, at Mahass, we spit at Mohammed Aly's beard, and cut off the heads of those who are enemies to the Mamelonks." I assured him that I was not an enemy of the Mameluks, and that I had waited upon the two begs at Derr, who had received me very civilly. The evening passed in sharp inquiries on the one side, and evasive answers on the other and the Kashef sat up late, with his confidents, to deliberate what was to be done with me, while I took post, with my camels, under cover, behind his hut. No one had the slightest idea that I was an European, nor did I, of course, boast of my origin, which I was resolved to disclose only under the apprehension of imminent danger. In the night a messenger was sent across the river to learn Hosseyn Kashef's opinion respecting my arrival.'

It will here, perhaps, be asked, why I did not travel in Nubia as a merchant; the answer is, that merchants travel as far as Mahass only, with slave caravans; they are, besides, obliged to tarry long in the countries they pass through, which was contrary to my views. I might, indeed, have carried merchandize with me, sufficient to purchase one or two slaves; but the people would then have said that it was not worth while to come to Mahass to make such a purchase, the profits upon which would not counterbalance the expenses of the journey from Esne and back again; and I should have thus been still suspected of being sent on a secret mission. On the other hand, had I carried goods with me equal to the

On our author's return, he examined the various antiquities he met with. The great quantity of pottery he met with in Egypt, he thus accounts for; he is speaking of El Mebarraka:

There are large mounds of rubbish, and fragments of pottery, in this place. Several travellers have expressed their astonishment at the immense heaps of rubbish, consisting chiefly of pottery, which are met with on the sites of ancient Egyptian towns; and, if we are to attribute their formation to the accumulation of the fragments of eathern vessels used by the inhabitants for domestic purposes, they are, indeed, truly surprizing; but I ascribe their origin to another cause. In Upper Egypt, the walls of the peasants' houses are very frequently constructed in part, of jars placed one over the other, and cemented together with mud; in walls of inclosures, or in such as require only a slight roof, the upper part is generally formed of the same materials; in the parapets also of the flat-roofed houses, a double or triple row of red pots, one over the other, usually runs round the terrace, to conceal the females of the family when walking upon it. Pots are preferred to brick, because the walls formed of them are lighter, more quickly built, and have a much neater appearance. They possess, likewise, another advantage, which is, that they cannot be pierced at night by robbers, without occasioning noise, by the pots falling down, and thus awakening the inmates of the dwelling, while bricks can be removed silently, one by one, as is often done by nightly depredators, who break into the houses in this manner. It, then, we suppose that pot walls were in common use by the ancient inhabitants, the

large mounds of broken pottery may be satisfactorily accounted
for. As for stone, it seems to have been as little used for the
private habitations of the ancient Egyptians, as it is at the
present day.'
(To be continued.)

Letters from Palestine, descriptive of a Tour through Galilee and Judea, with some Account of the Dead Sea and of Jerusalem. 8vo. pp. 251. London, 1819. ALTHOUGH this is not a work of great merit, yet it is by no means destitute of interest, and it possesses an appearance of genuineness which does not always belong to works of this class. These letters, indeed, partake more of the character of a private correspondence than that of being originally intended for the public eye. The author left Tripoli in August, 1817, and proceeded to Tyre and Acre; of the former city he thus speaks :

molished by the Turks; an altar is erected near the entrance Not far from thence is the school, where Christ received the first rudiments of his education from the Jewish masters; and near to this last, but in the opposite road, is a small chapel, inclosing the fragment of a robe on which our Saviour is supposed, on some occasion, to have spread his fare and shared it with his disciples. An inscription, affixed to the walls, intimates it to have been consecrated by the presence of Christ, both before and subsequent to his resurrection.'

The emotions of a traveller, on entering Palestine, are thus described, and we doubt not their truth :

The first sensations which fill the visitor of Palestine, are those of lassitude and dejection; but as he progressively advances in these sacred precincts, and perceives an interminable plain spread out on all sides, these sensations are eventually succeeded by feelings more exalted. A mixed emotion of surprise and awe takes possession of his faculties, which, far from depressing the spirit, elevates the mind, and gives vigour to the heart. The stupendous scenes that are every where unfolded, announce to the spectator that he surveys Of this once-powerful mistress of the ocean there now ex those regions which were once the chosen theatre of wonders. ists scarcely any traces. Some miserable cabins arranged in The burning climate, the impetuous eagle, the blighted figirregular lines, dignified with the name of streets, and a few tree-all the poetry, all the painting of the sacred writings, buildings of a rather better description, occupied by the offi- are present to his view. Each venerable name reminds hit cers of the government, compose nearly the whole of the of some mysterious agent;-every valley seems to proclaim town. It still makes indeed some languishing efforts at com- the warnings of futurity-every mountain to re-echo the halmerce, and contrives to export, annually, to Alexandria, car-lowed accents of inspiration! The dread voice of THE ETERNAL goes of silk and tobacco, but the account merits no considera- HIMSELF has sounded on these shores!' tion. "The noble dust of Alexander, traced by the imagi nation till found stopping a beer-barrel," would scarcely afford a stronger contrast of grandeur and debasement than Tyre, at the period of its being besieged by that conqueror, and the modern town of Tsour, erected on its ashes.

The small shell-fish, which formerly supplied a tint to adorn the robe of kings and magistrates, has either totally disappeared, or, from the facility of procuring a dye by another process, become an object of comparatively little value. I have observed, on several places, on the Asiatic coast of the Mediterranean, something resembling a muscle, which, on being pressed, discharged a pink fluid; but the colour was not of that brilliant hue which is described as peculiar to the shell-fish on the coast near Tyre; the liquor in these was contained in a small white vein, placed near the centre of the jaw. The colour of the fluid was not universally red; on the African coast it was of a dark violet, and hence, probably, arose the indiscriminate application of the term "purple." "

From the account of Jerusalem, which is too much interspersed with historical recollections, we select the following description of our Saviour's tomb :—

The tomb of our Saviour is inclosed in a church to which it has given name, and appears in the centre of a rotunda, whose summit is crowned by a radiant cupola. Its external. appearance is that of a superb mausoleum, having the surface covered with rich crimson damask hangings, striped with gold. The entrance looks towards the east, but immediately in front, a small chapel has been erected to commemorate the spot, where the angel appeared to the two Marys. Just beyond this is the vault in which the Redeemer submitted to a temporary interment; the door of admission is very low, probably to prevent its being entered otherwise than in the attitude of adoration. The figure of the cave is nearly square, extending rather more than six feet lengthways, and being. within a few inches of the same in width; the height, I should The city of Nazareth (which our author visited as well imagine, to be about eight feet; the surface of the rock is as most of the places connected with Sacred History and mament. At the north side, on a slab raised about two feet, lined with marble, and hung with silk of the colour of the firthe Life of Christ) consists of a collection of small houses the body of our Saviour was deposited; the stone, which had built of white stone, and scattered in irregular clusters to-been much injured by the devotional zeal of the different pilwards the foot of a hill which rises in a circular sweep, so grims, is now protected with a marble covering; it is strewed as almost to encompass it. The population of Nazareth, with flowers and bedewed with rose-water, and over it are which is chiefly Christian, does not exceed twelve or four- suspended four and forty lamps, which are ever burning. teen hundred souls. The church consecrated to the ser- The greater part of these are of silver, richly chased a few vice of the religious, is preserved with great neatness, but are of gold, and were furnished by the different sects of Chrisit has no architectural embellishments. tianity who divide the possession of the church.

'The scene of interview between the angel Gabriel and the wife of Joseph is marked by an altar, erected in a recess a few feet below the principal aisle of the church. Behind this are two apartments, which belonged also to the house of the reputed father of the Messiah. Their appearance is sufficiently antique to justify the date, and there is no great violence to probability, from the nature of their situation, in the account delivered of their former appropriation. But the monk who attended to point out the different objects usually held sacred, injured the effect of his narrative by intermixing a fabulous statement of the flight of one part of the edifice to Loretto! 'The place where Joseph exercised his art is about one hundred yards from the church; it was originally circular, but a segment only remains, the greater part having been de

The stone on which the body of Christ was laid to be anointed, is immediately in front of the entrance; eight lamps are suspended over it, and at each extremity there are three large wax tapers several feet in height. The distance from the sepulchre to the place where the cross was erected, does not exceed forty of my paces; Captain B. made the distance forty-three yards; his measurement is probably the most accurate. From the tomb to the place of Christ's appearance to the Magdalen, the distance is sixteen yards and a half. The exterior of the sepulchre is covered with white satin, variegated with broad leaves embroidered in red silk, and striped with gold; the vestibule is lined with crimson silk, worked with flowers and surmounted by a dome, beneath which three rows of silver lamps are kept constantly burning. A tripod supports the stone, on which the angel is believed to

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have reclined; its surface is only one span and a half long, drawn sword, the same which is supposed to have been worn and one broad. The sepulchre is lined with marble, and co- by Godfrey, and he is admonished to use it in his personal vered with light blue silk, powdered with white flowers. Just defence, as well as in asserting the rights of the church, and over the part where the body was deposited is a small, paint-in opposing the oppressing tyranny of the infidels; the scying, apparently well executed; it is the production of a Spa-metar is then sheathed and the noviciate is girt with that annish artist, and represents our Saviour's emersion from the cient weapon. At this part of the ceremony, he quits, for a grave.' moment, his suppliant attitude, and, having returned the -Passing over, not the Jordan, but our author's account sword to the Guardian, prostrates himself at the foot of the of it, we come to his notice of the Dead Sea, which is sepulchre, and, reclining his forehead on the vestibule, remuch at variance with the accounts of preceding travel-pressions-"I ordain thee a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of ceives the accolade of chivalry, accompanied by these exlers, particularly Count Forbin, who analysed some of its our Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of THE FATHER, AND OF THE water, and declares that it has no bitumenous or ill- SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST." The Guardian then kisses his scented flavour,' and that its specific gravity is such, that cheek, and hangs around his neck a chain of gold links-"links a man may easily float in it without an effort to swim *. of every virtue and of every grace.' From this chain the cross Our author, speaking of the Dead Sea, says,— is dependant. The new chevalier rises, and, having reverently saluted the sepulchre, closes the ceremony by restoring his ornamental investment to the hands of its venerable proprietor.'

Among the fabulous properties attributed to this lake, the specific gravity of the water has been stated to be such as to be capable of supporting the heaviest material substance. I found it very little more buoyant than other seas, but considerably warmer, and so strongly impregnated with sulphur Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek: written at the Close that I left it with a violent headache and swollen eyes. I should add, however, that where I made the experiment the descent of the beach was so gently gradual, that I must have waded above a hundred yards to get completely out of my depth; and the impatience of the Arabians would not allow sufficient time for an extensive effort.'

The statutes ordain that none shall be considered eligible to this degree who are not of the Catholic communion, and the aspirants are expressly required to be persons of birth, and possessed of sufficient property to support the rank of gentleman without engaging in commercial speculations. Each individual solemnly engages daily to hear mass, unless prevented by circumstances over which he has no controlto give his personal service or provide a substitute, in all wars undertaken against the infidels, and to oppose, with his utmost energy, every species of hostility against the church. The members further bind themselves to avoid all unjust motives of litigation, to eschew fraudulent gain, and to abstain from private duels, refrain from imprecations, perjury, murder, rapine, blasphemy, sacrilege, and usury; to flee all suspected places, to shua the society of infamous persons, and to live chastely and irreproachably; evincing, at once, by their actions and conversation, that they are not unworthy of the rank to which they have been elevated. Finally, they are required to employ their best offices in reconciling dissentions, to defend the fatherless and widow, and to ameliorate, as far as in them lies, the condition of their species; using their best means to extend the glory of God, and promote

the welfare of mankind.

This oath being taken, the candidate for knighthood kneels before the entrance of onr Saviour's tomb, where the Father Guardian laying his hand upon his head, exhorts him to be "loyal and virtuous, befitting a valorous soldier of Christ, and an undaunted champion of that Holy Sepulchre." With this adjuration he delivers to him some spears and a * See Literary Chronicle, vol. i, p. 294.

of the Eighteenth Century.

(Concluded.)

In our last notice of this work, we left our entertaining hero with his old master Mavroyeni, with whom he had renewed an acquaintance more intimate than when the one was a Drogueman and the other his servant. Mavroyeni expressed great friendship for Anastasius, and first offered him the situation of Divan Effendee; next, that of Besh-lee Aga, in which office he would command a troop of Janissaries, see the orders of the Sultan carried to dis tant provinces, and preside in a court of justice to decide all differences between Mohammedans and Raijahs, according to the Mussulman code; and, although Mavroyeni feared that Anastasius might not be very well qualified for the office of judge, yet he encouraged him by saying, Where God gives an employment, he gives the requisite capacity,' adding, for instruction:—

You will do like all the rest; provide yourself with a clerk who gets less pay and knows more of the business than his principal; and, in every doubtful case of law, always presume the Mohammedan to be in the right, and give verdict in his favour.' ·

Anastasius did not much relish this employment, and was, therefore, offered one more congenial to his disposi tion, that of commanding the Arnaoots in the approaching war with the Austrians. In this service he acquitted himself well, but Mavroyeni fell into disgrace and received the bow-string.

He had previously consulted Anastasius whether he should commit suicide or await the executioner :

"Sir," answered I, [Anastasius] gravely, "we all know that a king, a general, a statesman may, without the smallest scruple, sacrifice to a mistaken piece of policy, a foolish pique, or a silly point of honour, as many unwilling victims as the object requires. In the like manner we are told that even body,-an arm, a leg, or both,-provided it be to secure a private gentleman may sacrifice a certain fraction of his own greater durability to the paltry parts preserved. We are even assured by grave divines, that both potentates and private gentry may make themselves defunct on earth to every social duty, by becoming monks or anchorets, and be highly praised for the deed: but, however troublesome a man's exvoluntary removal might oblige all the world; however much istence may be to himself and to others; however greatly his his death would be a private and a public benefit, none dare dispose of their sum total of life, or remove their entire being

from a worse to a better world. This act, which might do the performer much good, and could injure no one else, is precisely deemed of all crimes the most heinous.""

We cannot follow our entertaining hero through the whole of his adventures, as we have already extended our account of him to an unusual length, we shall, therefore, only notice a few of the most prominent events or best written passages in the third volume. Anastasius again visited Constantinople, and, on approaching the Cemetary, at Scutari, he began to moralize how well, let the follow-moved!—And I, creature of clay like those here buried; I, ing extract determine:—

the corrupt judge and the innocent he condemned, the murdered man and his murderer, the adulteress and her injured husband, the master and his meanest slave. There vile insects consume the hand of the artist, the brain of the philosopher, the eye which sparkled with celestial fire, and the lip from which flowed irresistible eloquence! All the soil pressed by me for the last two hours, once was animated like myself; all the mould which now clings to my feet, once formed limbs and features like my own! Like myself, all this black unseemly dust once thought, and willed, and who travel through life as I do on this road, with the remains journey last a few hours more or less, must still, like those of past generations strewed around me; I who, whether my here deposited, in a short time rejoin the silent tenants of sonie cluster of tombs, be stretched out by the side of some already sleeping corpse, and be left to rest, for the remainder of time, with all my hopes and fears-all my faculties and prospects,blush along my path unheeded, the purple grape to wither on a cold couch of clammy earth;-shall I leave the rose to tant grandeur that may delude me while I live, spurn all the over my head? and in the idle pursuit of some dream of disdelights which invite my embrace ?-Far from my thoughts be such folly! Whatever tempts let me take: whatever bears the name of enjoyment, henceforth, let me, while I can, make my own!"

A dense and motionless cloud of stagnant vapours ever shrouds these dreary realms. From afar a chilling sensation informs the traveller that he approaches their dark and dismal precincts; and as he approaches them, an icy blast, rising from their inmost bosom, rushes forth to meet his breath, suddenly strikes his chest, and seems to oppose his progress. His very horse snuffs up the deadly effluvia with signs of manifest terror, and, exhaling a cold sweat, advances reluctantly over a hollow shaking ground, which loudly re-echoes his slow and fearful step. So long and so busily has time been at work to fill this spot with the sad relics of mortality,-so repeatedly has Constantinople poured into this ultimate receptacle almost its whole contents, that the capital of the living, spite of its immense population, scarce counts a single inhabitant for every ten silent inmates of this city of the dead. Already do its fields of mouldering bodies, and its gardens of blooming sepulchres, in every direction stretch far away cross the brow of the hills, and the hollow of the vallies: already are the avenues which cross each other on every side in this domain he was, with his archimandrite, on an eleemosinary tour, and 'Sub-deacon to one of the monasteries on the Agios Oros; of death, so lengthened, that the weary stranger, from what happening, at the last place of halting, to examine their stock ever point he comes, has to travel many a mile between end-of relics, the worthy pair had found it run so low as to require less rows of marshalled tombs, shaded by mournful cypresses, ere he reaches his journey's seemingly receding end: and yet every year does this common patrimony of all the heirs to decay, still exhibit a rapidly encreasing size, a fresh and wider line of boundary, and a new belt of young plantations, growing up between new flower beds of graves.

As I sped through this awful repository, the ranges of sepulchres, terminating in evanescent points, rose to the right and the left on my passage,-only for an instant to strike my sight, and then again to disappear, and to make room for new ones,-in such rapid and yet such unceasing succession, that at last I fancied some spell possessed my soul, some fascination kept locked my senses; and I hurried on with accelerated rapidity, as if the end of these melancholy abodes was to be the end of my waking delusion. Nor was it until, near the verge of the funeral forest through which I had been pacing for a full hour, the brighter light of a gayer landscape again gleamed athwart the ghost-like trees, that I stopped to look round, and to take a more leisurely survey of the ground I had traversed.

"There," said I to myself, "lie, scarce one foot beneath the surface of a soil, swelling, and ready on every point to burst with its festering contents, more than half the generations

Near Brossa, he afterwards met, among the tombs, a man laden with a sack full of dead men's bones. He proved to be,

replenishing. The nearest burying ground offered the readiest means; and the contents of the bag were nothing more than a few straggling bones of Turks, picked up in the said repository, to compose a fresh assortment of Christian relics.'

An illicit amour which Anastasius had with Euphrosyné, a lady of some rank in Smyrna, and whom he shamelessly abandoned, was productive of a child; Euphrosyne died soon after she quitted the house of Anastasius, leaving her child to the care of the peasant under whose bumble roof she breathed her last. Anastasius sought the child, and discovered it, and having sold the remaining trinkets he possessed, deposited their produce for the maintenance of his son, going in quest of other adventures to maintain himself.

After passing some time among the Arabs, to whom Anastasius had been sent, he married the sister of a Bedoween Oman, to whom he had become much attached. His account of the motions of an Arab tribe are worth extracting:

Sometimes

whom death has continued for near four centuries to mow Never was disorder equal to that which our camp now down in the capital of the Turkish empire. There lie, side presented. The group of watch dogs first alarmed, had, by by side, on the same level, in cells the size of their bodies, their howlings, gradually set barking all the remainder in the and only distinguished by a marble turban, somewhat longer most opposite quarters; whence, with the certainty of being ator deeper, somewhat rounder or squarer,-personages in tacked on some point, we knew not in the least where to direct life far as heaven and earth asunder, in birth, in station, in our defence, ran like blind people to the sound, and left the gifts of nature, and in long laboured acquirements. There guidance of our motions entirely to chance. lie, sunk alike in their last sleep,-alike food for the loath-thinking ourselves in contact with the enemy, when farthest some worm, the conqueror who filled the universe with his from the point of his attack, and at others fancying our assailname, and the peasant scarce known in his own hamlet: Sul-ants a mile off when in the midst of their troop, our offensive tan Mahmoud, and Sultan Mahmoud's perhaps more deserv- and our defensive operations were equally ill-timed; half the ing horse; elders bending under the weight of years, and in- night we fought with empty space, and the other half pursued fants of a single hour; men with intellects of angels, and men our own comrades. The watch dogs themselves, bewildered with understandings inferior to those of brutes; the beauty of by the engagement, and no longer distinguishing in the fray. Georgia, and the black of Sennaar; Visiers, beggars, heroes, between friends and foes, fell on both alike, and not only by and women. There, perhaps, mingle their insensible dust, their incessant yells so increased the horrors of the fight, but

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by their savage fury so augmented the bloodshed, that we mily of the consul, where it had been left by a woman were obliged to kill several of our old guardians, now unwit- who professed to be his mother, and had since married. tingly become our destroyers. As, however, every instant He resided near the consular mansion, for the pleasure of brought from the interior of the camp fresh supplies to the scene of action, we contrived to make a stout defence, with-seeing his infant Alexis; and once, on following the nurse, out sensibly losing ground.' who had walked out with it, and kissing it, the nurse screamed, and the child was torn away from him. From that hour he saw his darling boy no more for some time. Anastasius now hit on a singular scheme to gain possession of his child; it was no other than that of setting fire to the consul's house, in the hopes of seizing Alexis as the nurse should bring him out. Having placed his myrmidons in readiness, and placed fuel near particular parts of the mansion,-the fire was lighted, and soon blazed forth with great fury, and a string of females began to leave the house.

and

'Mean time, the portion of the tribe not engaged in its tection, was no less busily employed in its removal. Some were taking down the tents, others putting up the utensils and baggage, others again loading the beasts of burthen-while here and there a party stole out, and, unseen by the hostile troop, drove the cattle into the part of the desert most out of reach of danger. Thus, in less than two hours, the whole camp was broken up, and on the move. The combatants on our side hereupon began to slacken their exertions, and to keep up a more retreating skirmish. This was the easier, as the enemy himself, finding an unlooked for resistance, seemed more anxious to secure the booty made, than to incur fresh blows in trying to make further prizes, and testified a great wrapper. The Consuless herself led the van, enveloped in a loose Immediately after came my Alexis, still half desire to slink quietly away, ere the dawn should discover his asleep, in the arms of his nurse. A set of pale and ghastly weakness, and increase our strength by reinforcements from attendants, screaming to attract notice, brought up the rear. the neighbouring camp. Thus, while we fell back in one direction, our assailants did the same in the other; and se- darted across the way to break the line of the procession, and No time was to be lost-while my trusty attendants veral times we were greatly tempted to wheel about, and to to insulate the nurse, I sprung forward to snatch away the attempt the recovery of our captured equipages; but the fear child: but already had my figure caught the eye of his everof a surprise overcame this desire. Continuing our retro-watchful guardian. She gave her usual warning scream, grade movement unslackened while darkness lasted, we com- instinctively all the other women echoed the yell. The conpassed a distace of near six leagues from the place of com-cert brought around us all the bystanders who had gradually bat, before the incipient dawn threw any light upon our condition. The first rays of the sun shewed the whole plain, as far as the eye could reach, covered with camels and other beasts of burthen, pacing singly or in small groups, loaded with tents, luggage, women, and children, and intermixed For rendering it ineffectual I relied on my agility, assisted with droves of oxen and flocks of sheep, who were every moby the deep shadows of the night: but the pursuing troop was ment endeavouring to stop and to graze, unconscious of danger. too near, and at every step I advanced, its uumbers were inThe horsemen, who thus far had kept together in tolerably creased by all those who, running to the fire, met us on the close order, now fell asunder like a bundle of untied sticks, way, and turned back to join the chase. The only thing I and set off at full speed each for some different point of the could do was to draw my yatagan, and, while I tried with one compass; so that presently nothing was seen in every direc-arm to shield my child from the incessant shower of stones, tion but warriors crossing each other at full speed, like shoot-with the other to brandish my weapon, and to beat off the ing stars: each seeking, among the widely dispersed appara pelting mob. Sometimes, in order to prevent being closed tus of the camp, his own family furniture and equipages.' in upon, I was obliged to face about and to make a few passes, Anastasius soon lost his Bedoween wife; and, after servcalculated to teach those who came too near their proper dis ing in various Arab tribes, he gained comparative opu-face, and made the blood gush in streams from his cheek. At tance: but in so doing a sharp pebble hit my lovely infant's lence. He then determined to learn that mode of life, this sight I grew desperate: my strength seemed to increase and assumed the sacred garb of a Turkish Santon, a sort tenfold; and at every stroke of my sabre some miscreant was of itinerant saints, who travel about living on the credu- maimed, or bit the ground. lity and superstition of the lower orders. In this disguise he pushed on and reached Acre, where he could not but notice the mutilated state of the inhabitants :

The first face I met in the city appeared short of its nose; I had witnessed that deficiency elsewhere. The next was minus an eye;-that, too, is sometimes seen in other countries:-but the third had no ears; the fourth no lips; and there seemed to be walking ab:ut as many people possessed of one hand only as of two. At last, meeting a man whom I was not afraid to question on this local singularity, in as much as by some singular piece of good luck apparently he still retained the possession of his full set of limbs and features, I civilly accosted him, expressed my joy at seeing his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, &c. all complete; and, finally, begged to ask how it had happened that this occurrence was so rare at Acre?'

and carry it off, stopped not to ask by what right I did it, but collected, and who, seeing a tall fellow lay hold of an infant immediately set up after me a general cry and pursuit.

What power could resist a father fighting for his child!' Terror gradually seized all the nearest rabble: the rest slackened their pace; and a certain interval arose between the pura-head of the foremost, when the lanthorn, agreed upon as suers and their intended prey. I was about a dozen yards the signal of the, boat, began to glimmer on the shore. I now mustered all my remaining strength, and, with only such few windings as were necessary to throw the blood-hounds off the scent, inade for the beacon. Many, tired of the chase, had already given in; and a small portion only of the pack stil! kept yelping at a distance.

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I, therefore, thought myself safe;-when all at once, bebres, whose wearers, guessing my intention, had by a shorter tween me and the goal, flashed like forked lightning, two sacut got before me, and were now waiting to cut off my retreat. 'What was to be done?-An instant I stopped and hesitated: "You are a stranger," answered the man," and know not had no choice, and went forward. At the critical moment I but with a dozen rascals at my heels, and only two in front, yet, it seems, the mark of our master,-it is by these peculia-suddenly waved my hand, and, as if addressing some friends rities our shepherd knows his flock. Saint as you appear, stationed near, cried out to fire. The expectant pair on this let me advise even you, in this place, to take care of your started back, and looked around, while I seized my opportu After various journeyings, Anastasius became anxious ever, rallied again, and one actually had his hand on my nity, and darted by them like lightning. They soon, howto recover his child, which had been removed from shoulder, and was at last going to stop my career, when, Smyrna; he at length found it at Alexandria, in the fa-wheeling half round, I released my person at the expense of

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