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a large iron door. We were introduced into a spacious room at the 
summit. The Chief (attended by all his principal warriors gravely 
seated around) occupied a window commanding an extensive view of 
the country over which we had travelled, and more particularly the 
district of his rival, the Pacha. When we also were seated, and the 
usual compliments had passed, the Mirza begun a prepared speech un¬ 
folding our condition, announcing that we threw ourselves at his mercy, 
asking the rights of hospitality from him, and intermixing throughout 
some very severe invective against his enemy the Pacha. The mode 
succeeded: and Timur Beg instantly replied, that we had nothing to 
fear; that under his protection we were safe; that our necessities should 
be supplied, and that his officers should receive orders to treat us with 
distinction and kindness at a neighbouring village; for he hoped, as the 
only favour that he required of us, that we would not sojourn in his 
castle for that night. 
When these preliminaries were settled, I had time to observe that 
there was much to admire in our host. He was about forty years of 
age, with a singularly open and manly countenance, and with manners 
the most graceful and dignified. He related his own history and his 
differences with Ibrahim Pacha in language so simple, yet so expres¬ 
sive, that we acquired a deep interest in his fate; particularly, when he 
expatiated on the Pacha's tyranny and inordinate rapaciousness, and on 
the misery in which his exactions had involved all the peasantry of the 
district. During the course however of his conversation with the Mirza , 
I remarked one of his observations which was very characteristic of a 
semi-barbarous society. He inquired who I was ? and being informed 
that I was of the Sect of Isau (Jesus), or, in other words, a Christian, 
he continued (with a look of pity, having observed that I had refused 
a pipe), “ These fellows, I hear, have neither pipes nor tobacco in 
“ their country: haivan dar , they are beastsas if to say, assuming 
that we did not possess the knowledge or the means of their favourite 
enjoyment, “ how far inferior to us must those be who cannot 
“ smoke.” 
