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lifted liis hand against one of the faithful, should atone for the 
sacrilegious insult by his blood. The Arab, recovered from 
the shock he had sustained, sought only to gratify his anger by 
the death of his assailant. Having speedily charged his car*- 
bine, although trembling with rage to such a degree that his 
whole frame appeared agitated, he very deliberately pointed it 
at the object of his revenge, who escaped assassination by dodg¬ 
ing beneath the horses, as often as the muzzle of the piece was 
directed toward him. Finding himself thus frustrated in his 
intentions, his fury became ungovernable. His features, livid 
and convulsed, seemed to denote madness: no longer knowing 
what he did, he levelled his carbine at the captain of Djezzar’s 
guard, and afterward at his dragoman Signor Beitocino, who, 
with Captain Culverhouse, and the rest of us, by this; time had 
surrounded him, and endeavored to wrest it hom him. The 
fidelity of the officers of the guard, added to the firmness and 
intrepidity of Captain Culverhouse and of Signor Bertociao. 
saved the lives of every Christian then present. Most of our 
party, destitute of arms, and encumbered by baggage, were 
wholly unprepared either for attack or defence ; and every in¬ 
dividual of our Mahometan escort was waiting to assist in a 
general massacre of all the Englishmen, as soon as the affront 
offered to a Mahometan had been atoned by the death of ihe 
offender. Captain Culverhouse, by a violent effort, succeeded 
in wresting the loaded carbine from the hands of the infuriate 
Arab; and Signor Bertocino, in the same instant, with equal 
intrepidity and presence of mind, galloping among the rest of 
them, brandishing his drawn sabre over their heads, and 
threatened to cut down the first person who should betray the 
slightest symptom of mutiny. The captain of DjezzaFs guard 
then secured the trembling culprit, and it was with the greatest 
difficulty -we could prevent him from putting this man to death. 
The rest of them, now awed into submission, would gladly 
have consented to such a sacrifice, upon the condition of our 
concealing their conduct from Djezzar, when we returned to 
Acre. These men afterward confessed, that if any blood had 
been shed, it was their intention to desert, and to have joined 
the rebel army. A fortunate piece of policy put an end to the 
whole affair. One of our party, riding off at full speed into 
the plain, threw his lance into the air, and thus began the game 
of djirit ;■ the rest soon following, and expressing, by loud 
shouts, their readiness to restore good will among us. Nothing* 
however, could conciliate the offended Arab, He continued 
