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30 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,Arab village; he had been in the habit of decoying people,particularly women, into his garden, as a place of intrigue;and, with the help of a feujale, contrived to surprise andstrangle them : this continued for some months; many inhabitantswere missed, and he was suspected. He was, at last,induced, from fear of discovery, to murder his accomplice,which led to his conviction: he was hanged, as is usual, bya rope thrown over the walls attached to his neck, and thendrawn up by the Arab population of the town.A young Levantine, who had been secretary to Elfi Bey,and sdized at the time of the massacre of the Mamelouks,but escaped by the protection of the favourites of the Pasha,observed to me, that the government of Alexandria, previousto its being in the possession of the present Pasha, had beenunder a military governor and cadi: the former supreme; i\\elatter bought his place at Constantinople from some slave jpfthe seraglio, through merchants to whom it was first disposedof; who might be Christians, but were obliged to sell ^heoffice to a Mahometan. The customs had been in the handsof a Christian, who acted as captain of the port, and chiefoustom-house officer. At present, lawrsuits between nativesand Levantines not under the protection of consuls, weresettled by the cadi. Franks had their disputes ai^bitrated bytheir TCspectiveconsuls : law-suits between natives and Frankswere settled by mutual appeal to cadi and consul.ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ