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village adjacent thought proper to accuse him of 

 having occasioned the death of a young man who 

 had drowned himself, and whose body they were 

 dragging out of the water. An accusation so ab- 

 surd was supported by the whole village. The cry 

 for vengeance was universal. They sent a deputa- 

 tion to the Pacha of Aleppo, demanding that the 

 Dutchman might be given up to them. The go- 

 vernor refused. The villagers stirred up the popu- 

 lace of Aleppo. A formidable mob threatened to 

 set fire to the city, and to massacre all the Francs, 

 unless the drogman, who had fled for refuge to the 

 Pacha's palace, was delivered up to them. That 

 officer, though perfectly convinced of the Dutch- 

 man's innocence, was obliged, in order to prevent 

 the most dreadful outrages, to order the ill-fated 

 European to be strangled, and his body to be given 

 to the mutineers, who hanged it up on a tree. 



The picture which I have just presented of the 

 manncrs of the inhabitants of modern Alexandria, 

 gloomy as it may be, is by no means overcharged. 

 I have painted them such as I have seen them, I 

 might appeal, in support of what 1 have said, to 

 the testimony of the most respectable travellers, and 

 especially to that of the Europeans whom public 

 employments, commercial speculations, or curio- 

 sity, may have induced to reside any length of time 



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