1 '-elf from tin.* lii'.'li verandah of the palace into the neighbouring
2 yard. He requested us to prolong our stay with luiu, in order
3 to cure liis wounds promising, as soon as Ire should lie well,
4 to escort us to Bagdad. We coukl not resist this application,
5 partly owing to our gratitude for his kiml reception, and partly
6 because we thought by curing him, which seemed an easy
7 mutter, we should render a service to the Piahft of Bagdad,
8 which might be of greater advantage to u- than the letter we
9 had from the Pasha of Damascus. Accordingly, we separated
10 ourselves from our travelling companion-, who on the same
11 day went down the Kuphrates on their way to Ihtgdad. We
12 committed, however, a very great blunder, for .which we laid
13 to suffer, by quitting the house of the pilgrim, where we were
14 living so comfortably, and establishing ourselves in the miserable
15 palnee of bur patient, the Agba, who was reduced to such u
16 miserable nate of poverty by '.lie robbery, that he could hardly
17 provide for his most urgent necessities, and was very glud to
18 see us order our victuals to be brought from the Ixizaar. On
19 the iltiid or fourth night of our stay in our new abode, we
20 were alarmed by the same tumults a-s before, and awakened by a
21 lamentable erv from the. women, of ‘j Lilililili,” proceeding from
22 the terraces, where they slept in the open air. V\'e soon saw
23 armed Arabs filling the yard, quarrelling :uid disputing, and
24 we took them for the Agelis. As our room was on the ground
25 {too r, and had only one door and two window;. looking into t he
26 yard, -we imagined ourselves prisoners and lost, till I got to a
27 corner of the window, through the wooden lattice of which I
28 perceived the long ishibnek (pipe) of the Aglia, which en¬
29 couraged me to venture out. He was sitting among a great
30 crowd of his people, quietly smoking his pipe, so drawing
31 nearer to him and saluting, him, I inquired about the cause of
32 the .tnim.lt. He told me that the mother of the unhappy slain
33 children, having passed a sleepless night, was frightened by
34 the report of a musket, which appeared to proceed from outside
35 the tow n, ami she imagined that the Agelis had come back to
36 attack the palace. She began to scream, and the neighbouring
37 women joined in chorus, crying for help, which awoke all