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elapsed before he was able to move from his house, so deep had 
been the injuries inflicted in his fall. 
In the course of his awful narrative, he told us, that the noise 
which had so appalled him, as he lay among the blood-stained 
rocks, was indeed the acting of a new cruelty of the usurper. 
After having witnessed the execution of his sentence on the 
eighteen citizens, whose asseverations he had determined not to 
believe, Nackee Khan immediately sent for a devout man, called 
Saied Hassan, who was considered the sage of the place, and for 
his charities greatly beloved by the people. “ This man,” said 
the Khan, “ being a descendant of the prophet, must know the 
truth, and will tell it me. He shall find me those who can, and 
will pay the money.” But the answer given by the honest Saied, 
being precisely the same with that of the innocent victims who 
had already perished, the tyrant’s fury knew no bounds, and, 
rising from his seat, he ordered the holy man to be rent asunder 
in his presence, and then thrown over the rock, to increase the 
monument of his vengeance below. 
It was the tumult of this most dreadful execution, which occa¬ 
sioned the noise that drove the affrighted narrator to the shelter 
of any hole from the eye of merciless man. But the cruel scene 
did not end there. Even in the yet sensible ear of the Saied, 
expiring in agonies, his execrable murderer ordered that his wife 
and daughters should be given up to the soldiers ; and that in 
punishment of such universal rebellion in the town, the whole 
place should be razed to the ground. But this last act of blood 
on a son of the prophet, cost the perpetrator his life. For the 
soldiers themselves, and the nobles who had been partizans of 
the usurper, were so struck with horror at the sacrilegous mur¬ 
der, and appalled with the threatened guilt of violating women 
