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his dragoman Signor Bertocino, who, with 
Captain Culverhouse, and the rest of our party, 
by this time had surrounded him, and endea- 
voured to wrest the piece from him. The 
fidehty of the officers of the guard, added to the 
firmness and intrepidity of Captain Culverhouse 
and of Signor Bertocino, saved the lives of every 
Christian then present. Most of them, destitute 
of arms, and encumbered by baggage, were 
wholly unprepared either for attack or defence ; 
and all the Arabs of our escort were waiting to 
assist in a general massacre of the Christians, as 
soon as the aifront offered to a Moslem had been 
atoned by the death of the offender. Captain 
Culverhouse, by a violent effort, succeeded in 
wresting the loaded weapon from the hands of 
the infuriate Arab ; and Signor Bertocino, in the 
same instant, with equal intrepidity and pre- 
sence of mind, galloping among the rest of 
them, brandished his drawn sabre over their 
heads, and threatened to cut down the first 
person who should betray the slightest symptom 
of mutiny. The captain of Djezzars guard then 
secured the trembling culprit, and it was with 
the greatest difficulty we could prevent him 
from putting this man to death. The rest of 
the Arabs J now awed into submission, would 
gladly have consented to such a sacrifice, upon 
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