HEROISM OF SIDI ALl's WIFE. ' 15 
by the conquerors : they had pulled out her teeth, and her 
naked person had been exposed to the outrages and brutality 
of the soldiers. 
Achmet, struck with this hideous spectacle, loosened his 
mantle to cover the wretched princess, and said to her, " Thou 
seest that God himself has punished the rebellion of thy 
husband, in snatching- from him a victory which he had 
almost gained ; come to my tent, and forget for ever so 
guilty a partner." This woman, so far from being dejected 
by her misfortune, returned the following answer, " No ! my 
husband is by no means entirely conquered : tremble thy- 
self, traitor ! in a few moons he will again carry terror and 
destruction into the midst of thy camp, and will recover 
those rights of which thou hast deprived him." 
Whilst this scene was passing in the tent of Sidi Ali, the 
others were the theatre of disorder and carnage ; the conquerors 
seized about a hundred slaves, and a great number of oxen, 
and massacred all they could not take away. Neither age nor 
sex was spared ; the children were dashed against the tent- 
poles, and the women slaughtered. After this sanguinary 
expedition, Achmet retired, taking such measures as prudence 
dictated, for repelling the fresh attack which he had every 
reason to apprehend. 
