RECENT NARRATIVES. 
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" wife, Lilla Aisher, hearing the sudden clash of 
" arms, broke from her women, who endeavoured 
to restrain her, and springing into the room, 
" clasped the bleeding body of her husband in 
her arms, while Lilla Halluma, endeavouring to 
" prevent Sidi Useph from disfiguring the body, 
" had thrown herself over it, and fainted from the 
" agony of her wounded hand. Five of Sidi 
" Useph's blacks 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 
splendid 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 Ha- 
met ; but Useph, taking advantage of his absence, 
seized upon the city, and shut the gates against 
his brother. This wretch, therefore, now tyran- 
nizes over Tripoli. 
Some curious particulars are given by Mr Tul- 
ly's female relation respecting the manners of the 
Moorish Jadies, which she had peculiar opportuni- 
ties of observing. They are generally Georgian 
or Circassian slaves, purchased at an early age, 
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