4oa TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
his bad treatment of this lady, it is recorded that Jezzar, meet- 
ing her one day in the houfe, where {he happened to have 
cab-cab^ or Arabian pattens on her feet, pulled a piftol from his 
cincture, and fired it at her, faying, " Art thou the wife of an 
Arabian peafant ? doft thou forget that thou art the wife of a 
Pafha ?" 
Jezzar retained his ill-won pafhalik of Damafcus only a few 
years ; his government was a continual fcene of oppreffion and 
cruelty, and he is fuppofed to have extorted from the people 
not lefs than twenty-five thoufand purfes, or about a million 
and two hundred thoufand pounds fterling ; and to have put 
to death near four hundred individuals, mod of them innocent. 
His own mifcondud: and fufpicious defigns, when leading the 
caravan to Mecca, confpired with the machinations of his 
enemies at the Porte to deprive him of his office : but living 
monuments of his cruelty remain, in the nofelefs faces and 
earlefs heads of many of the Damafcenes. Thus driven from 
Damafcus, he returned to his former pafhalik of Acre and Seide, 
where he remains. This government, which he held along 
with that of Damafcus, he has retained upwards of twenty- 
feven years. 
Jezzar was fucceeded by the prefent Pafha Abdallah, whofe 
adminiftration, though eminent as before obferved for equity, 
is yet liable to the charge of mifmanagement of the public 
revenue, and of an indecorous timidity. Under the energetic 
Tway of Jezzar, the facred caravan had met with no obftrudions 
on its route ; but that of the prefent year, not only found the 
refervoirs 
