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Chapter
1 7 | English to the sum of 276,075 sterling, instead of the
2 10| Chapter 10~ ~ This mixture of
3 7 | territory which, by May 10th, must be abandoned for ever. ~
4 11| Chapter 11~ ~ For a whole week
5 7 | was irrevocably fixed at 150,000! The transaction is
6 1 | expedition against Corfu, in 1716. Marshal Schullemburg, who
7 1 | closed his career. He died in 1754. ~
8 3 | towards the end of November 1791, and had already continued
9 3 | extending his rule without. In 1803 he declared war against
10 9 | the name of Napoleon in 1806; then the battle musket
11 8 | Ottoman Empire. As far back as 1808, the Hydriotes had offered
12 7 | presented to the Divan in 1812, which had brought upon
13 7 | On the 25th of March, 1817, notwithstanding the solemn
14 7 | the following day, May 9, 1819, the English standard on
15 9 | castle of Janina, March 7, 1821." ~ ~
16 9 | still smoking when, on the 19th August, Pacho Bey made his
17 2 | Chapter 2~ ~ Ali thus at thirteen
18 11| dreaded relic, exposed on the 23rd of February at the gate
19 9 | Yet next day, May 24th, 1820, Ali addressed a circular
20 7 | the unhappy town. ~On the 25th of March, 1817, notwithstanding
21 9 | that he intended, January 26, to attack the camp of Pacho
22 7 | the English to the sum of 276,075 sterling, instead of
23 3 | Chapter 3~ ~ Having governed Thessaly
24 4 | Chapter 4~ ~ In December, the
25 5 | Chapter 5~ ~ After taking possession
26 7 | only arrived at the sum of 56,750, a final conference
27 11| the morning of February 5th, Kursheed sent Hassan Pacha
28 6 | Chapter 6~ ~ Ali had long cherished
29 7 | arrived at the sum of 56,750, a final conference was
30 8 | Chapter 8~ ~ A career of successful
31 7 | for a rich harvest were 80,000 square feet of olive
32 8 | divining rod stopped at verse 82, chap. xix., which says, "
33 4 | sons avenged themselves by abandoning their father in the hour
34 5 | their priests. Bishops, abbots, ecclesiastics generally,
35 3 | the death of the Sultan Abdul Hamid, whose two sons, Mustapha
36 2 | better neighbour and an abler politician than his predecessors,
37 11| before thy destiny; make thy ablutions; address thy prayer to Allah
38 4 | and having discovered the abode of the gang, set out for
39 11| This is the Head of the above-named Ali Pacha, a Traitor to
40 6 | story was already whispered abroad, and Pacho Bey learnt all
41 7 | was a servant, guilty of absence without leave, who was bound
42 6 | Dreading some treachery, he absolutely refused all entreaties to
43 7 | war which would certainly absorb part of them. Therefore,
44 8 | to pay their taxes, and abstained from all hostility. ~At
45 9 | severity towards those who have abused his confidence. With this
46 4 | this by order of my chief, abusing the confidence of my master,
47 4 | children down into the profound abyss beneath. ~There were still
48 2 | fidelity, and having free access to the person of their victim;
49 2 | footing' against possible accidents. He soon formed a plan,
50 2 | had just returned. He was accosted by his mother and sister,
51 7 | Treasury. By overhauling the accounts of his administration, millions
52 8 | acknowledge, and so also is the accumulation of treasure made in order
53 2 | his protege had become his accuser and was preparing to become
54 2 | and faithful Mussulman, of accusing a man who had been his benefactor,
55 7 | sure of his facts and well acquainted with the ground, he pledged
56 1 | citadel of Saint-Jean-d'Acre, or that of Passevend-Oglou
57 3 | off into the mountains of Acroceraunia, doors, windows, nails,
58 2 | all the Christians of the Acroceraunian Mountains. The Divan sent
59 7 | standard floated over the Acropolis of Parga. ~All Greece was
60 | across
61 8 | of exile, accompanied by actors, Bohemian dancers, bear
62 10| adhered to by Kursheed, actuated by private motives different
63 7 | by General Sir Frederic Adams, and landed at Parga by
64 8 | plans this was the best adapted to his country, where only
65 7 | of cruelty, saying, "Go, add that to thy tale; let thy
66 9 | and to be excommunicated, adding an injunction to all the
67 9 | pronounced except with the addition of "Kara," or "black," which
68 8 | decided on speaking, and, addressing the Christians, "O Greeks!"
69 10| condition was faithfully adhered to by Kursheed, actuated
70 9 | the mufti against Ali, his adherents, his castles, and even his
71 8 | Heaven, others murmured their adhesion. A great number remained
72 2 | the inhabitants of the two adjacent villages of Kormovo and
73 9 | rendered harmless by these adjurations. Ali's Mohammedan Skipetars
74 4 | officers to Trikala, to administer justice in the place of
75 3 | called, but being refused admittance, in his anger he broke open
76 4 | sufferings were the first adornments of the festival made for
77 9 | their cowardice, were the adulterous offspring of Emineh's amours.
78 4 | becoming a mother, as guilty of adultery, and handed her also over
79 4 | he did not neglect the advancement of his sons. By the aid
80 3 | prevented his profiting by the advantages of his position. Already
81 2 | enlisted all the lawless and adventurous men in Toscaria. With their
82 7 | at any moment, and it is advisable that he should not see you.
83 9 | plots of His Highness's advisers, he considered himself happy
84 8 | tranquillity. This was a personal affair, I acknowledge, and so also
85 4 | turns in their tenderest affections, and the sons avenged themselves
86 11| appearance of a document affixed to the head which narrated
87 9 | public calamities which are afflicting the faithful of Islam. Thirdly,
88 7 | overwhelmed by terror and affliction, went round to all the nobles
89 9 | town of Janina, which would afford shelter to the enemy and
90 3 | which like a desert oasis, affords a rest to eyes wearied with
91 3 | who had offered violence aforetime to Ali's mother and sister
92 11| house of the Mussulman Veli Aga whilst the escort partook
93 4 | Porte, and who is a Russian agent. He is in my power, and
94 4 | positions his only aim was to aggrandise and consolidate his own
95 4 | umbrage at the continual aggrandisement of the Pacha of Janina.
96 3 | should resume his plans of aggrandizement exactly where he had left
97 1 | the reputation of being an agile mountaineer and a good bandit. ~
98 7 | the territory of Parga; agreeing that a fresh estimate should
99 9 | length consented, and the agreement was concluded. The Suliots
100 8 | cause him, he exclaimed, "Ah! if Heaven would only restore
101 3 | Highway. As influential aids both to his reputation for
102 8 | would ruin him, he said, by aiming, each, at becoming a vizier.
103 7 | shuddered at the prospect of Al-Sirat, that awful bridge, narrow
104 10| castle, became a subject of alarm for the besiegers. And as
105 5 | his forehead contracted alarmingly. He vainly endeavoured to
106 9 | he hastily despatched to Aleppo to repress a trifling sedition
107 9 | some letters sent by Prince Alexander Ypsilanti to the Greek captains
108 9 | secretly returned to his allegiance and acted as a spy on the
109 3 | and property of his new allies. Ali promised whatever they
110 10| Seraskier, warn him that if he allows one minute more to elapse
111 10| former enemy, now their ally, assistance which he declined
112 1 | to increase his credit by allying himself to some great family
113 7 | large sum was distributed in alms among poor women without
114 10| known to no one but himself. Alongside of this was the harem, and
115 9 | precious stones; and the altar itself was defiled with
116 10| pillow, his countenance altered, and his endurance appeared
117 2 | treasure which he ceaselessly amassed by every means. He never
118 7 | a second opportunity for amassing wealth. Arta, a wealthy
119 4 | By the aid of the French Ambassador, whom he had convinced of
120 8 | was commissioned to make, ambiguous phrases which were read
121 6 | Issuing from the Gulf of Ambracia, it was intended to attack
122 6 | Pancrator and re-entering the Ambracian Gulf under full sail; it
123 2 | of probity. He appeared amenable to these good influences,
124 3 | against him. Therefore the amiable Ibrahim made use of the
125 11| in a grave beside that of Amina. When the grave had been
126 7 | pacha, offer only the same amount as did the poor, but were
127 9 | adulterous offspring of Emineh's amours. Then, raising his hand
128 2 | of the provost-marshal, amplified by Oriental exaggeration,
129 3 | realising Macchiavelli, as is amply shown in the expansion of
130 7 | the same conveniences and amusements as themselves. "If I had
131 8 | secretary was a Greek called Anagnorto, a native of Macedonia,
132 3 | him to comprehend facts, analyse causes, and anticipate results;
133 9 | towards the castle, and the anathema upon "Kara Ali" was repeated
134 1 | descended from an ancient Anatolian family which had crossed
135 8 | will soon return to their ancestral houses, and, reunited under
136 1 | Turkish invasion, and his ancestry certainly cannot be traced
137 6 | Gulf under full sail; it anchored close by the palace, and
138 7 | would relate some fresh anecdote of cruelty, saying, "Go,
139 11| between the good and bad angels, who dispute the possession
140 3 | is my wife!--Her eyes are angry; she threatens me!--Save
141 11| charger was cut off, and the animal covered with purple housings,
142 3 | one of those sacrifices of animals still occasionally made
143 3 | master of Janina, was to annihilate the beys forming the aristocracy
144 9 | darling hope of shortly annihilating his rival. ~At break of
145 5 | district. Immediately after the announcement of this marriage Ali set
146 9 | I shall retain, without annual re-investiture, my pachalik
147 7 | each forty francs and an annuity of two pounds of maize daily,
148 3 | the success of a new one. Anonymous letters, secretly sent to
149 7 | he obtained only dilatory answers, followed at length by a
150 3 | Sepher Bey, when he was anticipated by Ibrahim Pacha, who roused
151 3 | debris of the ruined city; antique games of archery and wrestling
152 1 | river Vojutza, the ancient Aous, penetrated the streets
153 3 | entering the hall now set apart for public audience. It
154 3 | Ibrahim Pacha, to whose apathetic disposition a state of war
155 10| deceived by Ali's seeming apathy, which certainly did not
156 10| only escape death by the apostasy of her lover; if he refused
157 3 | his trusted physician and apothecary, and gave him poison instead
158 8 | made, therefore, a general appeal to all Albanian warriors,
159 1 | whom they could neither appease nor satisfy. Each population
160 5 | battalion received with applause, Ali thought himself betrayed,
161 7 | enforced his words by the application of a stick, and Vaya, apparently
162 9 | the Christians, and the apprehension of a rupture between the
163 8 | not at the beginning of April, two months after the attempted
164 9 | horse brought him the famous Arab charger called the Dervish,
165 7 | with gold, adorned with arabesques, decorated with costly armour
166 9 | the Pacha of St. Jean-d'Arc, who amused himself by enclosing
167 10| not only sitting over the arch of a casemate filled with
168 9 | so were the tombs of the archbishops, in which were interred
169 3 | ruined city; antique games of archery and wrestling were celebrated,
170 10| engineer, Caretto, like another Archimedes, still carried terror into
171 3 | himself up to sensuality. Ardent in everything, he carried
172 4 | When the ceremony she so ardently desired took place, she
173 6 | He was approaching the arena of Nicopolis when a third
174 11| required. ~Thereupon a long argument ensued, in which Ali's sagacity,
175 9 | endeavoured to defend their houses arid families against these bandits,
176 3 | annihilate the beys forming the aristocracy of the place, whose hatred
177 3 | came to terms with the same Armatolians whom he had formerly treated
178 8 | adventurers on the plan of the Armatous, by companies, placing a
179 9 | from different European armies, who had established an
180 11| butcher, "dost thou think an Arnaout dies like an eunuch? I also
181 11| well out of reach of the Arnaouts, from whom a surprise might
182 3 | Porte under the title of "arpalik," or conquest. It was an
183 10| that the object of this arrangement was, to prove to the army,
184 4 | herself took charge of all the arrangements. Elmas, wearing the black
185 9 | the war and the tribute in arrears due from my Government without
186 10| This mixture of arrogance and submission only merited
187 9 | safe arrival. This letter, artful and insinuating, was calculated
188 11| degraded into becoming an article of traffic exhibited at
189 10| stored ammunition, precious articles, provisions, and the treasures
190 6 | countenance, and could scarcely articulate the order to return to Prevesa.
191 11| Ali's sagacity, skill, and artifice struggled vainly against
192 9 | which were defended by artillerymen drawn from different European
193 7 | help of which he hoped to ascend to the planets and discover
194 3 | he gave up readily, and ascended the ladder full of hope.
195 10| incurring any expense. He ascertained that the Neapolitan was
196 10| that which they had just ascribed to him. "I do not wish to
197 9 | soldiers; whereupon the Asiatics, imagining that Eblis himself
198 9 | It was necessary to lay aside vain resentment and to unite
199 9 | own family. He wound up by asking for soldiers, but the Greeks
200 9 | Tapagetae under the Bimbashi Aslon of Argyro-Castron. He was
201 11| terrible and imposing an aspect that those present beheld
202 10| brilliant end to which I aspire." ~The envoys gazed at him
203 6 | calumniator who had dared to assail him with such injurious
204 9 | endure. One of his gunners assassinated a servant of Vela's, and
205 2 | idea of surprising me and assassinating one there. I myself supplied
206 3 | It ordained some special assassinations, mentioned sundry villages
207 10| feet having been made, an assault was decided on. The troops
208 5 | promises, and ordered them to assemble in a neighbouring caravanserai,
209 7 | right into the midst of the assembly. Then began a terrible uproar.
210 10| dissemble. He replied that, assenting to such propositions being
211 2 | Ambitious, bold, vindictive; she assiduously cultivated the germs of
212 8 | justly the brave nation associated with my interests." ~This
213 9 | sister Chainitza gave him an astonishing example of courage. She
214 7 | undertook a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, saying that both the disguise
215 3 | up. They then agreed to atone for the impossibility of
216 3 | relief, in the midst of this atrocious saturnalia to encounter
217 8 | support. These he sought to attach to his person as men who
218 2 | all his neighbours, and attaching to himself, through the
219 10| shall always do when thou attackest me as a brave man ought."
220 9 | like himself, had been attained with the sentence of deprivation
221 7 | Ali's treasures than to attempt to seize them by a war which
222 4 | the Porte, seeing that all attempts against him only caused
223 8 | attributed, for if my actions be attentively regarded it will be seen
224 3 | and composed an apology attested by a judicial declaration
225 5 | mourning, received an order to attire themselves as for a festival.
226 9 | another attack, and came attired in the colour of the Prophet.
227 8 | Mussulmans and Christians, alike attracted by the prospect of booty
228 2 | the death of the pacha, attributing it, as is usual in Turkey,
229 1 | empire for sale by public auction. All employments were sold
230 4 | Queen! it is a name of good augury. Basilessa, thou shalt dwell
231 10| described in it as Vizier, as Aulic Councillor, and also as
232 10| anxiety. ~Had he been less avaricious, Ali might have enlisted
233 4 | affections, and the sons avenged themselves by abandoning
234 6 | Delighted at the prospect of avenging himself on the father, he
235 9 | Ali's Mohammedan Skipetars averted their eyes, and spat into
236 10| with confidence. ~Whilst awaiting the arrival of the firman
237 3 | he heard her, and would awake, exclaiming, "my wife! my
238 2 | days afterwards, the Divan awarded to Ali Tepeleni, as a reward
239 2 | plunder. In his eyes the axe was but an instrument of
240 7 | the mountains whence the Axius takes its rise, he obtained
241 6 | complicity, and the unfortunate Ayesha, though shortly to become
242 7 | The sun shone in cloudless azure, the air was balmy with
243 9 | woods, after giving birth to babes, who, destitute of succour,
244 4 | sent to Janina a "kapidgi- bachi," or plenipotentiary, to
245 11| conflict between the good and bad angels, who dispute the
246 8 | his prostrate slaves. He bade farewell to his wives, saying
247 7 | with staves, carrying a bag of money, which he threw
248 7 | country. Some filled little bags with ashes withdrawn from
249 1 | Albania with the troops of Bajazet Ilderim. But it is made
250 9 | where they figure in the ballads of the Skipetars. The first
251 7 | cloudless azure, the air was balmy with the scent of orange
252 8 | recalcitrant, be placed under the ban of the Empire if he did
253 1 | agile mountaineer and a good bandit. ~The Albanians proudly
254 2 | against it at the head of his banditti, but found himself vigorously
255 4 | resentment openly. "The wretch banishes me," he cried, pointing
256 3 | dreaded. He ruined them all, banishing many and putting others
257 11| been forgotten in their banishment, had it not been supposed
258 5 | Mirdites who served under his banner. ~"To you, brave Latins,"
259 1 | His origin was no legal bar to his succeeding like his
260 11| s bravery inspired these barbarians efface the memory of his
261 1 | signalling party, and with a barbarity worthy of his adversaries,
262 7 | act of benevolence into a barbarous form of amusement. ~As he
263 8 | before our tribunal naked and bare." Ali closed the book and
264 9 | appearing. Ali despatched his barge, which took on board a monk,
265 6 | dispersed the ships, and a barque manned by sailors from Paxos
266 10| them more than two thousand barrels of powder carefully arranged
267 1 | brothers, forewarned, had barricaded themselves. He at once besieged
268 11| them back, succeeded in barricading himself in his apartments. ~
269 6 | monk of the order of St. Basil was slowly dying, for having
270 9 | caresses and persuasions of Basillisa, the beautiful Christian
271 7 | event which changed the basis of the whole European policy.
272 9 | labourers. Often he sat on the bastions in the midst of the batteries,
273 4 | kissing his hands, which she bathed with tears, and said: ~"
274 7 | right and left with their batons. The pacha meanwhile sat
275 5 | which the black-cloaked battalion received with applause,
276 3 | independence. ~After several battles, in which his enemies had
277 11| mothers, were dragged to the bazaar and sold ignominiously to
278 9 | against the sultan by Kara Bazaklia, Vizier of Scodra, who,
279 3 | useless, and that there must bean extensive conspiracy against
280 7 | informed him that he was the bearer of a firman granted at the
281 7 | kapidgi-bachis are frequently bearers of evil tidings, which it
282 11| all illusions. His pulse beat violently, but his countenance
283 10| He showed them also his bedroom, a sort of cell richly furnished,
284 3 | summoning her son to her bedside. He started, but arrived
285 7 | misfortunes which might possibly befall him, cast themselves down
286 7 | disgrace in energetic terms, begging him to obtain his admission
287 3 | as hostages for the good behaviour of their husband and father,
288 7 | the Divan, desiring you to behead a traitor, named Pacho Bey,
289 3 | to accomplish her dying behests. ~The pilgrimage came first
290 7 | complete, these unhappy beings were compelled to wash in
291 3 | a materialist with the Bektagis who professed a rude pantheism,
292 10| and whether the latter believed all this, or whether they
293 | below
294 2 | accusing a man who had been his benefactor, and thus at the same time
295 2 | the same time gained the benefit of crime and the credit
296 7 | distributions, which really benefitted no one, many women were
297 7 | contrived to change this act of benevolence into a barbarous form of
298 7 | Ali received these forced benevolences from all parts. He sat,
299 1 | guarded a state of disorder bequeathed by their ancestors, which
300 8 | through the world. A native of Bergamo, learned in heraldry, provided
301 9 | as far as the village of Besdoune, where he was to place an
302 7 | establishing himself in Russian Bessarabia, when he met Pacho Bey and
303 3 | habits of the Turks, to bestow the Government provinces
304 5 | friends of my youth, and of bestowing benefits on them, but I
305 9 | passage. ~In some cases terror bestows extraordinary strength,
306 4 | sneezing, feverish eyes, soon betokened a serious illness. Ali's
307 11| his countenance did not betray his mental trouble. It was
308 7 | singer to be brought, would bid him repeat his verses, and,
309 1 | were sold to the highest bidder; pachas, beys, cadis, ministers
310 7 | approaching Turkish army and bidding him hasten. He arrived at
311 9 | the Tapagetae under the Bimbashi Aslon of Argyro-Castron.
312 6 | leaving on the field four "bimbashis," or captains of a thousand,
313 9 | flocks and the cries of birds of prey. Arrived on the
314 2 | establishing myself firmly in my birthplace. I had devoted friends,
315 8 | Christian martyr; the holy bishop of Velas, still bearing
316 3 | his amusement consisted in biting the lips he had kissed,
317 11| must have endured the full bitterness of death in seeing his sons
318 5 | At these words; which the black-cloaked battalion received with
319 3 | corner, broke his shoulder blade, and he fell, but sprang
320 10| into prison, where he only blamed Fate for his misfortunes.
321 5 | blessings on the pacha, and blaming each other for having ever
322 7 | compelled to wash in the Inachus blankets, sheets, and clothes steeped
323 10| surrounded the building blazing as if they had been torches
324 11| Imperial standard displayed its blazonry, and the lake castle was
325 9 | silence and solitude save the bleating of flocks and the cries
326 8 | priests of Issa the prophet! bless the arms of the Christians,
327 2 | pistol from his belt and blew out his brother's brains.
328 5 | famine. After a month's blockade, the common people, having
329 7 | trifled with, a lasting blot on the honour of England! ~
330 2 | mere crime, proved a huge blunder. The numerous enemies of
331 11| were firing through the boards on which he stood. A ball
332 4 | Euphrosyne, and then, taking a boat, he went to hide his grief
333 11| to enter. At five o'clock boats were seen approaching the
334 8 | accompanied by actors, Bohemian dancers, bear leaders, and
335 4 | funeral pile. Many were boiled alive and their flesh then
336 7 | up to his shoulders in a boiler full of melted lead and
337 7 | full of melted lead and boiling oil. Old men, women, children,
338 2 | he recommenced with new boldness and still greater confidence
339 10| when he was visited by a bomb which caused him to leave
340 9 | commanded by the chief bombardier. The Asiatic troops of Baltadgi
341 9 | a volcano, directed the bombardment, pointing out the places
342 8 | and bare." Ali closed the book and spat three times into
343 2 | advantageous for both the bordering provinces, instead of gaining
344 3 | his egotism, he is Cesar Borgia reborn as a Mussulman; he
345 8 | the Osmanlis across the Bosphorus. O bishops and priests of
346 7 | to Lieutenant-Colonel de Bosset, undeceived them, and gave
347 9 | at dead of night. Morco Botzaris remained with three hundred
348 11| was removed to the farm of Bouila, until the Supreme Porte
349 2 | palikars, and entered, as their bouloubachi, or leader of the group,
350 7 | absence without leave, who was bound to a stake in the presence
351 2 | The sanjak of Delvino was bounded from Venetian territory
352 4 | who repaid his mercy with boundless love and devotion. ~Let
353 1 | plains of Poitiers, had set bounds to the wave of Mussulman
354 7 | suppressed agitation. The Bourbons again reigned in France,
355 11| and revere them." "Then bow before thy destiny; make
356 11| plate, rose to receive it, bowed three times before it, and
357 11| to present him with the bowstring was instantly laid dead
358 11| a secret token from his bozom, he handed it to Kursheed'
359 10| enemy so formidable and a brain so fertile in intrigue.
360 2 | and blew out his brother's brains. Chainitza ran at the sound,
361 9 | inhabitants of Tepelen, brandishing bones of the wretched Kardikiotes,
362 7 | encounter criticism with bravado. If, by chance, he overheard
363 4 | never forget that a man who braves public opinion as I do fears
364 9 | possible. Collecting his bravest soldiers round him, he prepared
365 2 | did not run the risk of braving it, and, on the contrary,
366 1 | fancy of his neighbours, and brawls and fights recommenced in
367 5 | arrived, he explained this breach of faith by declaring that
368 7 | proclaimed through the length and breadth of the land, that, being
369 10| he hoped to corrupt, and breathed as though the storm had
370 1 | other. The Osmanli race, bred on conquest alone, proved
371 8 | was set to a favourable breeze, and Ali, leaving the shore
372 10| and won by the Seraskier's bribes, took advantage of the fact
373 2 | bride and the brother of the bridegroom. ~The assassins published
374 4 | horizon of Ali's life for a brief moment. Returned to Janina,
375 7 | months at Janina with a brigade of artillery which General
376 2 | measures against this young brigand. He sent against him a division
377 11| And Hassan exhibited the brilliantly gilded frontispiece which
378 10| enclosure, of solid masonry, bristling with cannon, which surrounded
379 7 | High Commissioner of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Maitland, to
380 6 | sword-bearer, was attacked in broad daylight by six emissaries
381 9 | sizes, for the most part in bronze, mounted on siege-carriages,
382 7 | hands raised to heaven and brows bent to the dust met one'
383 3 | guards entered he showed the bruises he had received and the
384 5 | palace courts. Troops of brutal soldiers drove workmen from
385 7 | and clothes steeped in bubonic infection, while the collectors
386 5 | intended to shelter herds of buffaloes. The prisoners having heard
387 8 | was embellished with new buildings; elegant pavilions rose
388 7 | an hour he encountered a Bulgarian monk, with whom he exchanged
389 11| the end, was killed by a bullet; and Mouktar, having slain
390 9 | as one of the strongest bulwarks of the Ottoman Empire. This
391 5 | corpses. Ali forbade any burial rites on pain of death,
392 11| a bull escaped from the butcher, "dost thou think an Arnaout
393 10| lost in the conflagration, buying actually from the Kiaia
394 9 | being assigned the best cabin in the admiral's ship and
395 8 | political hatred of the Ottoman Cabinet too well not to know that
396 1 | highest bidder; pachas, beys, cadis, ministers of every rank,
397 2 | who fell, exclaiming, like Caesar, "And it is thou, my son,
398 7 | who was shut up in the cage of Ali's favourite tiger
399 9 | artful and insinuating, was calculated to make a deep impression
400 4 | this imperious message, calmed down, and obeyed. ~"Come
401 6 | Zobeide would confound a calumniator who had dared to assail
402 3 | with condemnation, such a calumny might easily cause the death
403 9 | also pointed out that the campaign was already advanced, and
404 7 | amused by stories of his campaigns and various adventures,
405 7 | Trusting to the word of General Campbell, who had formally promised,
406 3 | suffered from an internal cancer, the result of a life of
407 10| Leaning on a long Malacca cane, he repaired at early dawn
408 9 | of war Ochrida, Avlone, Cannia, Berat, Cleisoura, Premiti,
409 10| of shells, grenades and cannon-balls. With a terrific noise,
410 9 | Turks, saluting them with cannon-shot if they ventured near the
411 9 | At break of day a lively cannonade, proceeding from the castle
412 4 | orders."--"It is enough: thou canst withdraw." ~Uneasy as to
413 9 | bombs thrown into their cantonment contained six thousand sequins
414 3 | decisive victory to Ali. Towns, cantons, whole districts, overwhelmed
415 7 | in his right an old red cap, which he extended for the
416 9 | army, mounted on a richly caparisoned mule and repeating the curse
417 7 | honourable conditions of capitulation. The colonel returned a
418 1 | other guarantee than his caprice. They had therefore to set
419 9 | the beautiful Christian captive, who had now been his wife
420 2 | and her daughter Chainitza captives to Kardiki. It was proposed
421 2 | Ali got off with a mild captivity in the palace of his powerful
422 2 | saved their lives; their captors preferred to revenge themselves
423 3 | his nails the forms he had caressed. The people of Janina saw
424 4 | in his own palace. ~Ali, caring little for passion which
425 4 | rock, beheld the terrible carnage which destroyed their defenders.
426 7 | the richest of Oriental carpets, remorse stood ever beside
427 7 | Ali maintained several carriages for himself and his family,
428 10| through the explosion of a cartridge which had burnt his face.
429 11| his guards prepared their cartridges, their eyes fixed on the
430 7 | arrived at Janine Sir John Cartwright, the English Consul at Patras,
431 7 | furniture, costly stuffs, cashmeers, furs, arms, all are destroyed!
432 11| draped with a splendid Indian Cashmere shawl, on which was placed
433 3 | into the hands of a single caste, although a foreign one
434 7 | uproar. The women rushed to catch it, upsetting each other,
435 6 | Zobeide; who succeeded in causing a miscarriage, and who,
436 9 | Ali began to advance, but cautiously, being uneasy at seeing
437 10| descend with him into the cavern. There he showed them more
438 5 | in Ali's honour, did not cease after his departure. ~He
439 2 | was the treasure which he ceaselessly amassed by every means.
440 3 | swore to pursue without ceasing and to destroy without mercy
441 3 | occasionally made in the East to celebrate an escape from great danger,
442 2 | Ali Pacha. Impatient of celebrity, he took good care himself
443 11| would repose in peace amid celestial houris, the Skipetars, murmuring
444 10| also his bedroom, a sort of cell richly furnished, and close
445 3 | was, like the first, to be cemented by a marriage. The virtuous
446 4 | day, and was buried in the cemetery of the monastery of Saints-Anargyres,
447 2 | to Berat, the capital of Central Albania and residence of
448 2 | usual in Turkey, to a fit of cerebral apoplexy. But the truth
449 8 | be present at the Friday ceremonial prayer, and fired several
450 3 | and Klephtic dances, the ceremonials of warriors and of robbers.
451 3 | logical in his egotism, he is Cesar Borgia reborn as a Mussulman;
452 7 | complete and stipulated cession of Parga and all its territory
453 2 | Thence he raided the Pindus chain of mountains, plundered
454 9 | ruffians who fought for chalices and silver crosses. ~The
455 7 | vainly he sought refuge in chambers glittering with gold, adorned
456 9 | Toxidae, of Tapazetae, and of Chamidae; so that Ali, knowing that
457 10| fashion of his own. Thus the chancellor of the French Consul at
458 1 | and courage, and a man's chances of making a good match were
459 1 | short-lived struggles and trifling changes, of administration, such
460 9 | himself with the idea that the Chaonians, who had taken up arms,
461 8 | rod stopped at verse 82, chap. xix., which says, "He doth
462 11| knowest thou not these august characters?" And Hassan exhibited the
463 9 | superior should receive fitting chastisement, I demand that Pacho Bey,
464 1 | where, all commodities were cheap. But the Tepeleni family,
465 7 | hat. He ordered a complete chemical laboratory from Venice,
466 9 | Ali, retired to rest, each cherishing the darling hope of shortly
467 10| his diamonds; and several chests of money. Two days passed
468 2 | decapitated heads. But what chiefly tended to consolidate his
469 3 | sword-bearer, the companion of his childhood and confidential friend
470 8 | placing a captain of his own choice at the head of each, and
471 7 | result that in summer one was choked by dust, and in winter could
472 3 | name, he himself led the chorus in the Pyrrhic and Klephtic
473 7 | made on the spot by experts chosen by both English and Turks.
474 4 | and the gentle prayer of Christ no longer wakes the echoes
475 10| talk about. Frangistan (Christendom) shall henceforth hear only
476 9 | male children were to be circumcised, and brought up to form
477 9 | Some of the more courageous citizens endeavoured to defend their
478 7 | trees, of pomegranates and citrons. But the lovely country
479 9 | days with untrimmed beard, clad in mourning, on a mat at
480 7 | and lands which the pacha claimed as being heir to his subjects.
481 5 | on the wretched victims, claiming their share in cruelty and
482 3 | definite settlement of his claims. He was now fifty years
483 10| everywhere, and the whole army clamoured to break up the camp. Thus
484 9 | against these bandits, and the clash of arms mingled with cries
485 1 | rank, and clerks of every class had to buy their posts from
486 1 | might be divided into three classes--those who were striving
487 9 | person. As soon as the smoke cleared, he perceived Capelan, Pacha
488 3 | who had no difficulty in clearing herself, and who warned
489 8 | Most Powerful," and "Most Clement," were showered upon him,
490 3 | certain Murad, the Bey of Clerisoura. This nobleman, attached
491 1 | ministers of every rank, and clerks of every class had to buy
492 7 | seize being brave, vigorous, clever, and cunning. Craft will
493 8 | complaints and those of his clients, should penetrate to the
494 5 | by bullets. Some tried to climb the walls, in hope of either
495 9 | passage and with a cry they climbed the mountain, listening
496 2 | nursery, he spent his time in climbing mountains, wandering through
497 9 | as hostages. He then had cloaks and arms brought which he
498 11| wish to enter. At five o'clock boats were seen approaching
499 3 | to obtain yet more. But closely allied to Ibrahim were two
500 7 | with whom he exchanged clothes--a disguise which enabled
501 7 | which they hid in their clothing and pressed to their bosoms,
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