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The Pacha, the Kadis, and the Turkish pilgrims, 
remained, not knowing how to act in this moment of 
disorder, being out of heart. 
During the night, 250 negro soldiers, belonging to 
the Scherif, went over to the service of Saaoud. 
All the rest left on the 28th of February. 
The Sultan Saaoud directed his course with his 
troops to Medina, leaving, as I was informed, 35,000 
francs in alms to the servants of the temple and the poor 
of the city. He installed his Kadis; and thus this politi- 
cal revolution terminated, without one single drop of 
blood being shed. 
The Beled el Haram, or the Holy Land of Islam, of 
which Mecca is the capital, is comprehended between 
the Red Sea and an irregular line, which, commencing 
at Arabog, about twenty-one leagues to the north of 
Djedda, forms a bend from the north east to the south- 
east, in passing by Yelemlem two days journey to the 
north-east of Mecca; from thence it continues to Kar- > 
na, about twenty-one leagues to the east of the same 
place, and eight leagues to the west of TaTf, which is 
without the Holy Land; after which, turning to the 
west-south- west, it passes by Drataerk, and terminates 
at Mehherma upon the coast, at the port named Al- 
marsa Ibrahim, nearly thirty-two leagues to the south- 
east of Djedda. 
It appears, therefore, that the Holy Land is fifty-seven 
leagues in length from the north-west to the south-east, 
and twenty-eight in breadth from the north-east to the 
south-west. 
This space is comprehended in that part of Arabia 
known by the name of El Hedjeaz, or the Land of Pil- 
grimage, the limits of which are not sufficiently known 
to me to hazard a description of them. 
