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&m{ described as a horrible tyrant* about twenty years prior to 
our coming. Having acted as interpreter for Captain Culver- 
house, in ail his interviews with this extraordinary man, and 
occasionally as his confidential agent, when he was not himself 
present, I had favourable opportunities of studying Djezzar^ 
character. At that time, shut up in his fortress at Acre, he 
defied the whole power of Turkey, despised the Vizier, and 
derided the menaces of the Capudan Pacha: althougli he al¬ 
ways affected to venerate the title and the authority of the 
Sultan. His mere name carried terror with it over all the 
Holy Land, the most lawless tribes of Arabs expressing their 
awe and obeisance, whensoever it was uttered. As for his ap¬ 
pellation, Dje^sar^ as explained by himself, it signified butcher; 
but of this name, notwithstanding its avowed allusion to the 
slaughters committed by him, he was evidently vain. He was 
his own minister, chancellor, treasurer and secretary ; often his 
own cook and gardener; and not unfrequentiy both judge and 
executioner in the same instant. Yet there were persons who 
had acted, and still occasionally officiated, in these several ca¬ 
pacities, standing by the door of his apartment; some without 
a nose, others without an arm, with one ear only, or one eye; 
u marked men as he termed them ; persons bearing signs' of 
their hav ing been instructed to serve their master with fidelity. 
Through such an assemblage we were conducted to the door of 
a small chamber, in a lofty part of his castle, overlooking the 
port.f A Jew, who had been his private secretary, met us, 
and desired us to -wait in art open court or garden before this 
door, until Bjezzar was informed of our coming. This man, 
for some breach of trust, had been deprived of an ear and an eye 
at the same time. At one period of the pacha’s life, having 
reason to suspect the fidelity of his wives, he put seven of them 
to death with bis own hands. It was after his return from a 
pilgrimage to Mecca; the Janissaries, during his absence, hav¬ 
ing obtained access to the charem. If his history be ever writ¬ 
ten, it will have all the air of a romance. His real name is 
Aehmed. He was a native of Bosnia, and speaks the Sclavo-* 
man language better than any other. It is impossible to give 
* De Tott says, that he immured alive a number of persons of the Greek com^ 
munion, when he rebuilt the walls of Berytus, now called Berooty , to defend it from , 
the invasion of the Russians. The heads of those unfortunate victims were then to bp 
seen. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 316. ed. Lond. 1785. 
t Many wretched objects, similarly disfigured, might be observed daily in 
streets of Acre. 
