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'And yet, said Tancred, 'though they have maintained themselves, they have done nothing; now, the Arabs have always succeeded. 'I will tell you how that is, said Fakredeen. 'It is very true that we have not done much, and that, when we descended into the plain, as we did in '63, under the Emir Yousef, we were beat, beaten back even by the Mutualis; it is that we have no cavalry.
"Well sung, Massa Bungo," exclaimed Mr Splinter; "where do you hail from, my hearty?" "Hiflo! Bungo, indeed! free and easy dat, anyhow. Who you yousef, eh?" "Why, Peter," continued the Lieutenant, "don't you know me?"
I did not hear of him until he was gone, otherwise I should have had some conversation with him about the Major. For this theft, and other bad conduct, old Yousef Bashaw made a formal complaint against the people of Ghadames, and mulcted them several thousand mahboubs. Mr. No authentic account now will ever be collected of Major Laing's death.
'He made many efforts to win them, though, said Sheikh Hamood, 'and so did the Emir Yousef. 'And you think without them, noble Sheikh, said Tancred, 'that Syria is not secure? 'I think, with them and peace with the desert, that Syria might defy Turk and Egyptian. 'And carry the war into the enemy's quarters, if necessary? said Fakredeen.
'It was the same in the time of the Emir Yousef, said Sheikh Hamood. 'They can bring twenty-five thousand picked men into the plain. 'And I suppose, if it were necessary, would not be afraid to meet the Osmanli in Anatoly? said Fakredeen. 'If the Turkmans or the Kurds would join them, said Sheikh Hamood, 'there is nothing to prevent their washing their horses' feet in the Bosphorus.
This accident was ascribed to the Persian sectaries of Beni Hosseyn, who were then the guardians of the tomb. In the following year its restoration was undertaken at the expense of the Khalife Mostasem Billah, Ibn el Montaser Billah, and the lord of Yemen, El Mothaffer Shams eddyn Yousef, and completed by El Dhaher Bybars, Sultan of Egypt, in A.H. 657. The dome over the tomb was erected in 678.
Gagliuffi, "I won't speak to you any more, Consul. Don't come more to this house. Why did you give my master money to buy a new slave?" The Consul protested he did not. If I can't keep my wives myself, I must beg of my neighbours to contribute a portion of the necessary expense." Old Yousef is a thorough-going scamp of a Moor. 1st March.
A son of the late Yousef Bashaw, on a visit to Ghadames, about thirty years ago, to amuse himself and frighten the demons, blew up a large portion of the ruins with gunpowder. Previously the ruins were much more perfect and imposing. I have made a sketch of what remains of these ancient buildings.
When all his ancestors, and especially his grandfather, Saif-Nasser, were butchered by the exterminating policy of Yousef Bashaw, Abd-El-Geleel, then a boy, was saved, as an instrument of future vengeance in the hands of Providence by the secret interference of the women of the Bashaw's family.
Gagliuffi observed justly, and which so often happens in despotic countries, "Yousef established Tripoli and its provinces in one firm united kingdom, and in the early part of his life his power was respected and his people happy; but as the Bashaw declined in life, he again disorganized everything, and Tripoli was rent in pieces." Went to visit a member of the Divan.
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