TRAVELS IN BARBARY* 
** Xilla Halluma, endeavouring to prevent Sidi 
* c Useph from disfiguring the body, had thrown 
" herself over it, and fainted from the agony of 
< fc her wounded hand. Five of Sidi Useph's blacks 
tfc were at the same time stabbing the body of the 
*' Bey as it lay on the floor ; after which miserable 
" triumph, they fled with their master." 
Whether from favour or fear, the Basha made 
no attempts to avenge this horrible crime ; and 
soon after its commission, Useph celebrated a splen- 
clid festival, " where the sound of music, firing, 
" and of women hired to sing and dance, were 
" louder than at the feast of a wedding/' 
Some years after the Basha died, and was suc- 
ceeded in the first instance by his son Sidi Hamet \ 
but Useph, taking advantage of his absence, seized 
upon the city, and shut the gates against his bro- 
ther. This wretch, therefore, now tyrannizes over 
Tripoli . 
Some curious particulars are given by Mr Tul- 
Iy*s female relation respecting the manners of the 
Moorish ladies, which she had peculiar opportuni- 
ties of observing. They are generally Georgian or 
Circassian slaves, purchased at an early age, and 
trained in all the arts and accomplishments, which 
can render them objects of attraction. They are 
kept in a state of the strictest seclusion, and never 
go out unless rarely by night, attended by a nume- 
rous train, who announce their approach by shout- 
ing and lights, when no one must meet, or even 
