Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

80 xos.

furnish a certain proportion of troops,
and when summoned, to accompany them
in person to the imperial camp.

Mehemmet,* the Pasha of Adalia, for
a long time had not only evaded this
summons, but had even refused to send
his quota. The incensed Porte at first,
could only menace ; being too fully oc-
cupied by the war with Russia either to
depose or punish him. Ahmed, his bro-
ther, and avowed enemy, at that time
lived under the protection of Kara Os-
man Ogloo, the Pasha of Magnesia, and
perhaps the most powerful chieftain of
Anatolia. Through his influence, Ahmed
secretly purchased at Constantinople, a
ferman of appointment to his brother's
pashalik ; for which he was to pay, if
ultimately successful, 150,000 piasters.-f-
The Porte, however, seldom goes farther

* When the name of the prophet Mohammed is
given to an individual, it is pronounced Mehemmet; but
the Turkish-spelling is in both cases the same.

+ About 7,500/. sterling.