PAULOVSKOY. 
290 
CHAP. 
XI. 
Rash Con- 
duct of a 
young Pea- 
sant. 
colour, size, and maturity, is at Jaffa, upon 
the coast of Syria. 
We found ourselves among Russians at P aulov- 
skoy, and narrowly escaped with our lives. 
The author, being asleep within the carriage, 
was awakened by some person gently opening 
the door ; and could discern, although in the 
night, a man extending his arm in a menacing 
manner. Making a sudden effort to seize him 
by the hair, the fellow eluded the attempt, and 
escaped : an alarm was immediately given, but 
he could not then be discovered. Soon after 
this, the author, putting his head out of the 
carriage window, to call the servant, a large 
stone, thrown with great violence, struck the 
frame of it close to his head ; sounding so like 
the report of a pistol, that at first he believed a 
pistol had been discharged close to him. Upon 
this a second search was made, and a man in 
consequence detected, pretending to sleep in 
one of the bhabithas, in the court-yard of the 
inn. This fellow, whether guilty or not, we 
compelled to mount the barouche-box, and to 
sit there as sentinel. Soon afterwards, all of 
the party who were in the house came running 
into the yard, saying that the front of the inn 
was beset by some persons from without, who 
had hurled stones through the windows, and 
