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Poor Regini gets only twelve dollars a month from the Pasha of Tripoli for his employment of quarantine agent, and is obliged to look after three ports, for Misratah has three ports, at a considerable distance from each other, as well as several hours' ride from the town. Visited with Regini the acting Kaed or Governor of this place, and brother of the Bey, now in Tripoli.
Very fine specimens of this marble may be seen in a pair of columns in the obscure Church of Santa Maria Regini Coeli, near the Convent of St. Onofrio, on the other side of the Tiber; in a pair in the church of Ara Coeli; and also in a pair in the third room of the Villa Pamphili Doria, which are extremely fine, and are probably as large as any to be met with.
The fact is, Regini is a very deserving man, and could he hoist the Union Jack, might benefit British subjects and promote British interests at the same time that he gratified his own Cæsar-like ambition. This afternoon we left Misratah for Tripoli, our last stage.
I opened at random one fine old quarto, and found it to contain, among other curious tracts, models of typography, a Latin critical disquisition by Raphael Regini on the first edition of Plutarch's Life of Cicero, "nuper inventâ diu desideraiâ " a disquisition quite aglow with the cinquecento delight in discovery and adventure.
Disposal of Said, and the Camel. 12th. EASTER SUNDAY. It is a grand festa with Signor Regini, and his family are dressed out in their best. They are the only family of Christians in this town, but keep the festa with as much religious zest and zeal as if in Malta or Rome.
So much for Jewish learning in Tripoli. Signor Regini is an original in his way. Speaking of an old man about taking a young wife, he observed, "Growing old, he became young." "So you ought to be," I replied, "for I would not live here to be despised." "Stop, Signore Inglese," he rejoined abruptly, "I am the first man here.
But Mehemet Pasha showed the usual and insulting duplicity of the Turk, for the Consul-General heard afterwards that, instead of giving Regini a new house, he increased the rent of his old one.
The rude Arabs give a sort of Shakesperian witches' receipt for the cure of this disease, such as the liver of a vulture, the brains of an hyæna, the dung of the ostrich, mixed with other wonderful ingredients. The Establishment of Signor Regini. Visit the Acting Kaed of Misratah. Shabby Conduct of Mehemet Pasha to Regini. Description of the Villages comprised within the Jurisdiction of Misratah.
They are the sweetest, prettiest, loveliest little things which I have seen in all my nine months' tour. Oh, that these valleys were full of them! What nonsense to believe Cicerones in these parts. Regini told me I should be sure to see Lebida, for it was in the road that is to say, five or six miles off, behind sand-hills.
Population and Condition of the Jews in Misratah and Tripoli. Regini sighs for the honour of hoisting the Union Jack. Village of Zeiten. Leghma; and the tapping of the Date-Palm. Corn Fields and Grain Culture in North Africa. Manipulation. Sahel or Salhin; its splendid Gardens. The Eastern Terminus groups of Mount Atlas. Ruins of Lebida; and other Ancient Ruins. Monosyllabic Old Moor.
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