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immediately, it was found it would be very incon- 

 venient to insist on redress, so, after one visit to 

 the Seraskier, the parties who had been assaulted 

 said they did not wish to press the matter further, 

 and the man got off the bastinadoing which the 

 Seraskier threatened to inflict upon him. It ap- 

 pears that the sentry had orders to prevent any 

 one from riding, otherwise than at a foot's pace, 

 across the wooden bridge, and that the three 

 gentlemen in question, ignorant of this order, and 

 seeing a Turkish officer, a privileged person, can- 

 ter over the bridge, were induced to do the same, 

 when the sentry called to them to stop. Stop, it 

 appears, they did directly, when the sentry com- 

 menced, as soon as he could catch them, reward- 

 ing them for their obedience to his call, and their 

 disobedience of the municipal regulations, by 

 chastising them in the summary manner I have 

 just described. 



It should be observed, that the parties attacked 

 were all in white jackets, or some such dress, and 

 I am quite convinced, from the respect I have 

 always had shewn to my red jacket, that had 

 they been in uniform, this would not have oc- 

 curred. I have found, in this part of the world, 



