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age of puberty, they soon become exceedingly fat; the 
children are very pleasing, but so small, that they might 
be taken for apes. The men bear upon their coun- 
tenances the marks of the slavery which presses heavily 
upon them; continually harassed by the exactions of 
the soldiery, they are under the necessity of concealing 
under ground whatever they would preserve from rapa- 
city and violence. 
About midnight on the 18th, Ali Bey crossed the Yan- 
tra, a river of considerable size and rapidity: and having 
passed through some hamlets arrived at Kouschouk, a 
large and strongly fortified town on the right bank of 
the Danube. 
Pacha Moustapha,* after examining the traveller's 
papers, gave orders for his passage; he accordingly em- 
barked in the night on board a six-oared boat, crossed 
the majestic Danube in thirty-five minutes, and landed 
at Djiourjoi, a small town defended by a large fortress, 
on the left bank of the river. The town was occupied 
at the time by a body of troops under the order of 
another Pacha; and formed the most advanced post of 
the Turks. 
The passports of Ali Bey were here submitted to a 
fresh examination; but the Diouan Effendi, to whom 
this office belonged, had been at Alexandria with the 
Captain Pacha, the friend of Ali Bey; and the moment 
he observed the name of the latter in the firman, he 
cried out, 4 * It is unnecessary to see any thing more, I 
know Ali Bey." He then made an apology, sent the 
traveller a handsome supper, and gave orders to have 
horses in readiness. Such was the manner in which Ali 
* It was this Moustapha Bairactar who afterwards raised the 
revolution at Constantinople against the Sultan Moustapha. 
