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cipitate flight, when they were instantly pursued by 

 the Turkish horsemen. Among those who escaped 

 was the heroine Ghalia. Having no longer any se- 

 cure place of retreat, she led her followers into the 

 desert, and ultimately reached Deraiah. The castle 

 of Ranniah with several others capitulated. 



One formidable enemy yet remained in the field, 

 the Sheik Tami, who was resolved to try a second bat- 

 tle, and had assembled a considerable army beyond 

 the rugged mountains of Azir, twelve or fourteen 

 days' journey westward from Beishe. Towards this 

 district Mohammed Ali next directed his attempts. 

 On the march his army suffered the extremities of 

 hunger and fatigue. A hundred horses sometimes 

 died in one day, and out of more than 10,000 camels 

 only 300 survived the expedition. The sinking spi- 

 rits of the troops were kept up by the pasha, who 

 promised them a glorious booty in plundering the 

 towns of Yemen. Tami had collected a force of 

 8000 or 10,000 men at a mountain- fortress called 

 Tor, so strong as to be deemed by the Arabs impreg- 

 nable. In two days the Turkish artillery forced 

 the Wahabees to yield, though the combat was more 

 vigorously maintained than at Bissel. In the castle 

 were found considerable stores of provisions, which 

 proved most seasonable to the invading army. 



Tami fled ; but he was the last to quit the field. 

 Having taken refuge in the house of a friend, he 

 was betrayed and delivered up in chains to Sheriff 

 Rajah, who was roaming about the mountains in 

 search of the fugitive. Bakrouj was at the same 

 time defeated in Zohran, and being hemmed in 

 between two fires was taken prisoner. The two 

 noble captives were sent to the pasha, and both suf- 



