ISLAND OF COS. 449 
A remarkable cause was tried while we were chap. 
in Cos ; and a statement of the circumstance on ' r— ' 
which it was founded will serve to exhibit a very pa'rfoVThe 
singular part of the Mohammedan law ; namely, Sl'X" 
that which relates to " Homicide by implication^ 
An instance of a similar nature was before 
noticed, v/hen it was related that the Capudan 
Pasha reasoned with the people of Samos upon 
the propriety of their paying for a TurJcish fri- 
gate which was wrecked upon their territory ; 
*' because the accident would not have happened 
unless their island had been in the way." This 
was mentioned as a characteristic feature of 
Twr/twA justice, and so it really was; that is to 
say, it was a sophistical application of a prin- 
ciple rigidly founded upon the Jifth species of 
homicide, according to the Mohammedan law ; or 
^'Homicide by an intermediate canse," which is 
strictly the name it bears ^ The case which 
occurred at Cos fell more immediately under the 
cognizance of this law. It was as follows. 
A young man desperately in love with a girl 
of Stanchio, earnestly sought to marry her ; but 
(2) See the communication made to the author by M^. Keene, as 
published in Note (l), pp. 2^2, 243, of Vol. III. Octavo edition. 
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