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CHAP, that these Arabs never pay the tribute due to 
V .,- ' Djezzar, unless it be exacted by force ; and 
upon such emergencies all is confiscated that 
falls into the hands of the conquering party. 
Wars of Their battles resemble those recorded in Scrip- 
ture. A powerful prince attacks a number of 
shepherd kings, and robs them of their posses- 
sions ; their ** flocks and herds, and silver and 
gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and 
camels and asses." In the earliest ages of 
history, we find such wars described, when 
" Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with 
him, smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, 
and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in the 
Plain of Kiriathahn, and the Horites in their 
Mount Seir, unto the Plain of Paran, which is 
by the wilderness." In the battle of July the 
fifth, after a skirmish in which forty Arabs were 
killed and many wounded, Djezzar s troops 
succeeded in driving to the mountains an army 
of ten thousand, as they related, (probably not 
half that number,) who left behind them sixty- 
eight thousand bullocks, camels, goats, and 
asses. When these attacks take place, the 
first care of the Arabs is directed to the preser- 
vation of their women and children, the aged 
and the sick ; who are hurried off" to the moun- 
tains, upon the earliest intelligence of danger. 
