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310 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,to have the bastinado inflicted on an English lieutenantoolonelfor some supposed ofience, which no remonstranceon the part of the English agent would have hindered; it wasonly by flight the former escaped the indignity threatened.I was mysdf obliged to come to a determined issue with theaga of Beimtte then in command, who wished to preventme from visiting the prince of the Druzes; on which I desiredthe ccttisul to ask him whether England was at waror peace with the-Grand Signor? If at war, it was his dutyto take me prisons; if at peace, as I was furnished witha fiarman from Constantinople, I required and insisted to beallowed to go where I pleased.effect;This had the wished fortbe vice-consul put the question trembling, andpermissidB was given me to make the excursion at n\ypleasure.I ^ft Seida on the l6th, and embarked, saluted from themole with a few exclamations of " Giaour I" and other cootemptoouswords; and sailed for Beirutte during the nightsIn the morning I found myself near a range of beautifullyshaped hills, under which we continued our course till we an-.chored in theroad of Beirutte. The town, even from the sea,bad a busy appearance: its houses were close together; theinhabitants in motion along the shore.Two or three smallTessels on the stocks in the neighbourhood, and several ofdiderent si^es in the road, bespoke trade.Its environs, con-ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ