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fome good friend advifed them to have recoiirfe to the Cafhef 
of the place to fettle their difference. This officer, who was a 
young man, and noted for the violence of his character, heard 
their refpe£tive narratives, and then, finding that money was 
the caufe of their difagreement, terminated the hopes of the 
one, and the fears of the other, by an order for the inftant 
death of both. 
The report, in reaching Kahira, was charged with various 
circumftances of aggravation, and even the perfons of the fuf- 
ferers were changed. It was there faid, that the Frank who 
was in Said was one of the two malTacred, and the Cafhef's 
mafter was among the number of thofe who had been deceived. 
Keid Aga^ in whofe department Kous was fituated, fent word of 
this event, accompanied with a fuitable comment, and, as was 
faid, an offer of any reafonable reparation, to the Auftrian Con- 
ful, the only one refident in Kahira. The latter had forwarded 
it to the Britifh Conful at Alexandria, when I arrived at Kahira 
in time perfonally to contradid: it. The death of the two 
Greeks, it was faid, remained unnoticed. 
