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the Arab, and killing him. This murder was pre- 

 sently noised abroad. The people took fire, and, 

 in their transport, resolved to sacrifice every Euro- 

 pean they could lay hold of. Their fury was with 

 no little difficulty appeased, by delivering up the 

 murderer to them, whom they hanged in the pub- 

 lic square ; but an Arab, the brother of him who 

 was killed, though a witness of the execution, did 

 not think himself sufficiently revenged ; he bound 

 himself by an oath to sacrifice the first Franc he 

 should meet to the manes of his brother. 



All Europeansconfined themselves to their homes 

 for three whole months, in hope that the wrath of 

 this man would subside. At the expiration of that 

 period, and on information sufficient to set their 

 minds at rest, they believed it safe to go abroad. 

 For eight days they appeared as usual, in the city 

 and in the country, and no one had been in the 

 least molested. The consul had not hitherto dared 

 to shew himself: at length he thought that he too 

 might take the air, without running any risk. He 

 went to walk with a janisary of his guard on the 

 bank of the canal. Unfortunately for him, the 

 Arab, who, with the sentiment of revenge carefully 

 treasured up in his heart, went constantly armed 

 with a determination to gratify it, happened to be 

 in the same quarter. He approached the French- 

 man, who was under no manner of apprehension, 



and, 



