90 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, him no molestation until he made known the 
- nature of his passports ; when he was instantly 
shot. 
The moment daylight appeared, we hastened 
to the caravanserai, for horses : and here we 
learned, that out of one hundred horses, for- 
merly kept there for posting, only sixteen 
Particulars remained. Two hundred and thirty persons 
of the sack- . . f. 
ing and Were killed at the taking of the town, before 
burning of . , ^ . 
Fairy. thc rebels set fire to it : they entered durmg 
the night, exactly as they visited us at the 
booth; only in greater number, and with can- 
non; nobody knowing whence they came. 
Ninety houses were entirely burnt to the 
ground, besides the mosque, khan, &c. ; and 
others were so completely destroyed, that of a 
large town nothing now remained but its ruins, 
in the midst of which stood the caravanserai 
and the coffee-hooth. The rebellious moun- 
taineers are said to perform their incursions 
from the most distant places, with surprising 
rapidity. They poured into Fairy, on the night 
of its capture, like a torrent, after firing a few 
rounds of artillery. The inhabitants having no- 
thing to defend the town but their small arms, it 
was soon in flames. A dreadful scene of blood 
and tumult then ensued : to the noise of the con- 
