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Updated: May 17, 2025
Blindi Bobi, remembering a former and somewhat similar occasion, at once glided behind a projection of the walls and made off.
"Oh! mos' awfrul," exclaimed Blindi, turning pale, and drawing his blue garment hastily round him, as he meekly followed the officer of justice whose chief office, by the way, was to administer injustice. The man whom we have styled Blindi was a somewhat peculiar character.
Just as they were about to begin, one of the sbirros, who had a personal regard for Bobi, spoke a few words to one of the negroes, who immediately turned Blindi Bobi on his face and firmly raised his feet so that the naked soles were turned upwards. The other negro applied one of the rods thereto with all his might.
The same feelings induced him to befriend Blindi Bobi, who was also a friend of the Padre. Poor Ashweesha, and her father, Sidi Cadua, perished under the rod and the bow-string; and Hadji Baba, the story-teller, continued to tell stories and to jest to the end of his days. How the Deys tolerated him has ever remained a matter of surprise to the thoughtful.
Touching the sbirro on the shoulder, he pointed to a group under the shade of an archway, and said in a low tone "Go, fetch hither that scoundrel Blindi." The sbirro at once stepped towards the group, which consisted of two persons.
"There," said Blindi Bobi in reply, pointing to the individual in question, and sidling rapidly away. "Something ails you, methinks," said Omar, with a keen glance, as Hassan approached.
After this relief to his feelings Blindi Bobi went home to attend to his poor feet. In 1795 the Americans concluded peace with the Algerians by the payment of half a million piastres, and an annual tribute of 24,000 piastres. Seated on a throne in a recess of the audience-chamber of the palace, Achmet Pasha at length condescended to receive Don Pedro, the representative of Spain.
Blindi Bobi was far too well acquainted with the cruelties perpetrated continually in the pirate city to be ignorant of the fact that he had got off with a light punishment, yet we fear that did not cause him to entertain much gratitude to Sidi Omar as he limped back to his quarters at the Marina. Arrived there, he observed that the sick old man still lay where he had left him.
The loss of his eye had obtained for him in the navy the name of Blind Bob. In his native city this was Italianised into Blindi Bobi. But Bobi was by no means blind of the other eye. It was like seven binocular glasses rolled into one telescope.
There is no doubt that in his present temper the Dey would have had his late colleague strangled on the spot, but, fortunately for himself, Sidi Hassan, instead of returning to his own house, went straight to the Marina, without having any definite object in view, save that he thirsted for vengeance, and meant to have it if possible. On his way down he met the sapient interpreter, Blindi Bobi.
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