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ing night to his tent: on approaching the tree where the horse was 

 picketed, he was made a prisoner. Ragobah ordered him to be in- 

 stantly beheaded, by torch-light, at the extremity of the camp, 

 and his remains exposed as a public spectacle throughout the next 

 day. While the ministers of death dispatched the unfortunate 

 lover, his ill-fated mistress was sowed up in a sack, and thrown 

 alive into the river; the confidant was condemned to have her 

 nose cut off, and thus remain an example to the other slaves in 

 the haram. 



Midnight is generally the time for oriental executions; some- 

 times the criminal is put to death with the utmost privacy, at 

 others an alarm-gun from the imperial tent, at that silent hour pro- 

 claims the exit of the devoted victim. 



" Let barbarous nations, whose inhuman love 

 " Is wild desire, fierce as the suns they feel ; 

 " Let eastern tyrants, from the light of heaven 

 " Seclude their bosom-slaves, meanly possess'd 

 " Of a mere lifeless violated form; 

 " While those whom love cements, in holy faith, 

 " And equal transport, free as nature live, 

 " Disdaining fear." Thomson. 



Niebuhr mentioned a circumstance at Bussora, of a rich mer- 

 chant who had been received into the powerful body of janizaries, 

 and a pilgrimage to Mecca had stamped a still higher value on 

 his character; but the governor being his enemy, he was strangled 

 privately, and his dead body thrown into the market place. After 

 this public spectacle, like that of Esswant Row, the friends were 

 permitted to take away his remains; but in a history of Morocco, 



