TO RHODES. 243 
Approaching- the yawning chasm which Nature, chap. 
in one of her awful convulsions, has here opened • 
to the waves, a mountainous surge rolled after 
our little bark. Prosperous winds, however, 
carried us along, and we presently left the 
Boccaze in our stern; passing the Isle of Fourni, 
and steering into the* broad surface of the 
waters, with all the southern islands of the 
trated by George Henry Keene, Esq. a very eminent Oriental scholar, 
who resided uiauy years iu India, in the Company' s service, and is now 
of the University of Cambridge. Mr. Keene has informed the author, 
that the fifth species of homicide, according to the Mohammedan law, / 
is called homicide by an intermediate cause, and it is explained by the 
following cases. 
A. digs a well, or places a stone in land not his own ; and B, 
coming by, falls into the well, or stumbles over the stone, and dies : 
that band or company of which A. is a member shall pay the price of 
B.'s blood ; for A. in the act that he did, transgressed the law, and is 
therefore considered as having thrown down the deceased. But if a 
horse should stray that way and be killed, A. must himself pay the 
value. 
Or, if the wall of a house leans over towards the street, and the 
master of the house is duly warned to remove the wall ; and he does 
not within a reasonable time remove that wall, so that at last it falls 
down and kills a man, or destroys private property ; the master of the 
house is answerable for these consequences. 
There are many cases which relate to persons riding horses, and 
carrying burdens, along the high road, &c. &c. as may be seen in 
the Translation of the Hedaya. 
Now the principle of the law in all these cases is this : that every 
individual, in exercising his right to use highways, markets, mosques, 
&c. is bound by the condition, that such exercise of his right shall not 
be dangerous to any other individual : and it was by a sophistical 
application of this principle, that the Cupiidan Pasha made the Greeks 
of Samos pay for the loss of his frigate. 
