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reconcile us to evils, which, to those not inured to them, would be 
intolerable. The “ fierce impatience” which formerly characterized 
the Jews of the Cyrenaica has disappeared with the probability of its 
being successfully exerted ; and poverty is now almost the only evil 
to which they will not quietly submit The trade of Bengazi is not, 
however, wholly confined to the Jews ; for, besides the Bey himself, 
who may be considered as the first merchant, there are several 
other very respectable Mahometan traders f ; the Bazaar, notwith- 
standing, presents little more than the articles in greatest request 
among the Bedouins ; amongst which may be seen bundles of rusty 
nails, horse-shoes, musket-balls, and large flints, which form the chief 
objects of their visits, and are exposed for sale, on boards, at the 
doors of a few of the most industrious Arab inhabitants of the 
town, and bargained for with as much seriousness and vehe- 
mence, as if they were the most costly goods. The produce of 
the interior consists chiefly in corn, wool, and manteca, with which 
the merchants freight the different foreign vessels which purposely 
touch at Bengazi. This is done in preference to employing the small 
vessels of the country ; first, because the foreign vessels are much 
better navigated, and secondly, because in sailing under European ^ 
* “ This fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome continued, on the part of the 
Jews, from the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius.”— (Gibbon, vol. ii. p. 384.) 
“ In Gyrene the Jews massacred two hundred and twenty thousand Greeks ; in 
Cyprus two hundred and forty thousand; in Egypt a very great multitude.” — (See Dion 
Cassius, as cited by Gibbon.) 
t Among the most conspicuous of these was Hassan Larkoum, to whom we had 
brought a letter of recommendation from the ex-minister at Tripoly, Mahommed 
D’Ghies, and who treated us with the greatest civility and attention. 
