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not immediately restored to him. The Prince also collected his troops, and 
with the activity and resolution for which he is renowned, immediately 
entered upon the territory of the Pasha, burning, pillaging, and laying 
waste, after the manner of his country. As an instance of his des¬ 
perate courage, it is related, that he carried his winding sheet with 
him, an act which, in the estimation of the Persians, amounts to a 
declaration of waging war, either to death or victory. 
This vigorous measure, if we may believe the Persians, overawed the 
Courds, for Abdurakhman Pasha, instead of waiting an attack, fled to 
the mountains, leaving to the Persians a free passage to his chief town 
Sulimanieh, of which they soon took possession. 
On the day of our departure from Ispahan, we learnt that the cam¬ 
paign had terminated by Abdurakhman Pasha having sent his wife, and 
one of his sons, as hostages to the Persians, with a present of 50000 to- 
mauns, on condition that Sulimanieh should be restored to him. A 
sum of the same amount was also stipulated to be paid by him as an 
annual tribute. An instance of the ferocious energy of Mahomed Ali 
Mirza’s character must not be forgotten. A few days after his departure 
from Kermanshah to attack Abdurakhman Pasha, in a fit of exaspe¬ 
ration, he ordered the son of that chief, who was then an hostage in his 
hands, to be put to death; and as the cruel sentence admitted of no 
appeal it unhappily was obeyed. 
