1 of Mecca!. and that flu- inhabitants of Damascus liad been de¬
2 feated. T!k Sultan despatched immediately five pa;,has to Acre;
3 in order to brin;» the heads of Abdula Pasha, of Emir Beshir.
4 and of the new governor at Tripoli, the ubove-mentiom tl Barter,
5 for having taken part in the war, by sending his own troops to
6 join the main army. Ali Esxat Bek took advantage of the
7 moment, having lbs partisans at Tripoli; he came down from
8 Akar, blockaded and bombarded that town, and forced it to
9 capitulate. Meanwhile, Uurber betook himself to the citadel, in
10 which he surrendered under certain conditions. The five pashas
11 arrived so suddenly, that Emir Beshir had only dine to escape,
12 and embark between Seida and Bewwt, in a French vessel, which
13 conveyed him to Egypt, where, by the interference of Mah nnct
14 Ali Paslic In; obtained from the Sultan lbs own pardon 1 'and
15 that of Barber a.ul his superior, Abdula Pasha, which, by
16 the by, cost each of them an immense sum of gold. At London
17 I was recently told, by the missionary, Dr.«J. Wolf, that Abdula
18 Pasha and the Emir Beshir were residing at Constantinople,
19 but since then the public journals have ntmuunml the death
20 of the 1 latter, and that one of his sons had embraced M dtonti-
21 medanism.
22 T was present at the siege of Acre, and found an opportunity
23 of employing myself in surgical attendance and operations;
24 as the garrison used to make nightly sallies, and do a great deal
25 of nibebef. I bad a dozen native surgeons, or rather barbers
26 (jerahs), at assistants, to whom I gave theoretical and practical
27 information.
28 Tigers are. rarely to he met with on Mount Lebanon, yet
29 during my stay an order was issued by Emir Beshir, that (lie
30 muzzle of every slain tiger should he sent to the government,
31 in order to prevent the use of it a*, a poisonous drug. This
32 strange order induced me, when at Lahore, to examine its virtue,
33 the results of which 1 refer to in the second volume of this work,
34 under the denomination of 'Jt'igrimum.
35 My passion lor antiquities prompted me to undertake u
36 voyage to Alexandria; accordingly I made a trip, which