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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS, 143The vice-consul's son accompanied me through the town:this has been enlarged and improved by the present aga,w|io had been placed in his command by Djez^r Pasha, ofwhom he had been a favourite officer, and whom be cal'liedhis father. The land gate was highly ornamented witb carvedwork of the Saracenic pattern: several new bazars, in theform of squares, had been built by the present aga for cottonsand woollens; the other bazars, and the remainder of thetown, like all others I bad seen in the East, bore marks ofmisery; but from the buildings being of stone, the town hadnot so mean an appearance as those in Egyptr There wereabout five thousand inhabhants; and annongst these, manyChristianis, of various sects.Of course I was anxious to hear an account of Buonarparte's massacre. It was told differently from tbat given by-Sir Robert Wilson ; and thus by the vice-consul, who was atJaffa at the time it was stormed- by the French* After tbetown was taken possession of, amd all was supposed secure,it was discovered that a large b'ody of armed Muggrebins hadconcealed thernselves in the cd