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IBRAHIM AND HIS MEN. 
[chap. IV. 
drels filed by us within a few feet, without making the 
customary salaam ; neither noticing us in any way, 
except by threatening to shoot the Latooka, our guide, 
who had formerly accompanied them. 
Their party consisted of a hundred and forty men 
armed with guns; while about twice as many Latookas 
acted as porters, carrying beads, ammunition, and the 
general effects of the party. It appeared that we were 
hopelessly beaten. 
However, I determined to advance, at all hazards, 
on the arrival of my party; and should the Turks 
incite the Ellyria tribe to attack us, 1 intended, in the 
event of a fight, to put the first shot through the 
leader. To be thus beaten, at the last moment, was 
unendurable. Boiling with indignation as the insolent 
wretches filed past, treating me with the contempt of 
a dog, 1 longed for the moment of action, no matter 
what were the odds against us. At length their leader, 
Ibrahim, appeared in the rear of the party. He was 
riding on a donkey, being the last of the line, behind 
the flag that closed the march. 
I never saw a more atrocious countenance than that 
exhibited in this man. A mixed breed, between a 
Turk sire and Arab mother, he had the good features 
and the bad qualities of either race. The fine, sharp, 
high-arclied nose and large nostril; the pointed and 
