4 ACRE. 
CHAP, of striking- an Arab, unless with power to 
' ly ■ ^ put him instantly to death ; adding, " If you 
had been anywhere but in Djezzars dominions, 
and under his protection, you would not have 
lived to tell the story. I know the inhabitants 
of this country better than any man, and have 
long found that they are not to be governed by 
halves. I have been deemed severe; but I 
trust you have found my name respected^ a n 
even beloved, notwithstanding my severity." 
This last observation was strictly true ; for, in 
spite of all his cruelty, such was the veneration 
in which they held the name of Djezzar in the 
Holy Land, that many of the Arabs would have 
sacrificed their lives for him. As we were about 
to take leave, he acknowledged, for the first time, 
that he did not feel himself well, and complained 
of want of sleep ; asking us if we perceived 
any change in his health. His Interpreter told 
us that he had never before known an instance 
of a similar confession ; and augured, from this 
circumstance, that he would not long survive it; 
which proved to be true, although his death did 
not immediately follow'. His last moments 
(l) He was afterwards visited by Colonel Squirt, in company with 
Major Leake of the Artillery, and Mr. Hamilton. The last of these 
gentlemen, it seems, as Private Secretarj' of the Earl of Elgin, had 
some diplomatic arrangements to make with Djezzar, and wished to 
gain 
