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inhabitants of their villages and waited until 
they might find an opportunity of falling 
on Amir Hamzeh the son of Tchoufän, the 
the son of Mahsoum - Beg, 
who at this time occupied the throne of 
his ancestors. — At that time Æbou- Mus- 
lim, the son of Yousuf, the son of Muham- 
med , the son of Sheikh _Abul-mu lem dreamed, 
the same night, in a dream, that the infi- 
dels fell upon the Musulmans in Khoumzagh 
and conquered them, and that there happened 
in that town a great calamity. Therefore he 
was afraid of this dream and (the next morn- 
ing) before noon fled away to Ghomougk. The 
. following night the infidels fell upon 4mir- 
| Ahmar (Hamzeh?) before the dawn of day; 
put him to death ; cut off his head and hung it 
over the entrance of the fortress.They massacred 
also all the Musulmans who had inhabited that 
town, and thus succeeded in their plan. 
Now Amir-Sulian ascended the throne of 
his fathers, as his ancestors had done. His 
subjects apostatized, and there began between 
them and the Musulmans hostilities which 
lasted 24 years. But at last the sources of 
their subsistance became very scarce; the 
means of supporting their lives proved very 
läifficui: they became weary of war and sick 
of slaughter: they therefore repented and pro- 
fessed Islam again. It was then impossible to 
continue war and bloodshed among the Mu- 
sulmans, wherefore they made peace among 
themselves on the terms of Islam. Thus the 
decree of destiny, according to what is said: 
«all events are bound to their special times», 
was now fulfilled, peace and friendship being 
restablished as they existed before. 
Now day passed after day and year after 
jear and there elapsed many ages ; the glass 
of uniformity among the Princes of Ghomougk 
