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already pannic-frruck, would entirely lofe their courage 

 at light of the innumerable hoft of their purfuers, and 

 might with eafe b& totally defeated. The kapudan 

 pafha followed the contrary advice of the kiaia of 

 Kiauffia ; whom, on account of his merit, he had raifed 

 to be teftedar bey ; and took pofTefflon, 



On the ioth. of all the valuables which the beys had 

 left behind them in their houfes. Six nights fucceffively 

 he went from houfe to houfe and caufed an inventory 

 to be made of whatever he found in them. He named 

 to this, on one and on the other fide, Camanzaglo his 

 captain, the cafnadar aga, the chiodar, and fix other 

 beys, whom he took from among the chiafifs and all 

 thofe who were depofed by the fugitive beys, becaufe 

 they did not belong to their families. 



Fie caufed this catalogue to be taken during the 

 night ; as he was employed all day long in examinations 

 relating to the chriiHans ; to whom he imputed it as a 

 grievous crime, that they rode upon great arTes, and 

 not upon little ones ; that they did not wear coarfe 

 cloths and fluffs, but drerTed themfelves in a finer fort ; 

 that, when they met a Turk in the ftreet, they did not 

 pafs by him on the left hand ; that their wives, and 

 even the men, did not wear yellow, but black fhoes ; 

 that the ladies covered their faces with tafFety, &c. 



On all thefe points verv fevere firmans were puoKfh- 

 ed. They palled through the hands of a certain Siek- 

 pedat, who carried on a regular trade in them with 

 the merchants and traders, and indeed in a very artful 

 manner ; by delivering out a firman in the morning, 

 and revoking it in the evening; at the price of feveral 



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thoufand patailies. He fold by auclion all the female 



fluves 



