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POTENT SWAY OF THE PACHA. 199
the usual apologies for meager fare on account of
its being Lent, went to the room assigned me ;
and had just sat down to dinner, when my poor
muleteer entered in greater distress than ever.
Afraid of the very thing that happened, he had
started immediately on his return to Hebron, and
at the gate his mules were seized by a soldier for
the use of the government. It was in a spirit of per*
feet wretchedness that the poor fellow, still smart-
ing under the loss of his clothes, almost threw him-
self at my feet, and begged me to intercede for
him. I was, of course, anxious to help him if I
could, and immediately rose to go with him ; but
Paul told me to remain quiet, and he would settle
the matter in five minutes. Paul was a great ad-
mirer of the pacha. Wherever his government
was established, he had made it safe for the trav-
eller ; and Paul's courage always rose and fell ac-
cording to the subdued or unsubdued state of the
population. In the city of Jerusalem the wind
could scarcely blow without the leave of Ibrahim
Pacha ; and Paul had mounted on stilts almost as
soon as we crossed the threshold of the gate. He
had already been at his old tricks of pushing the
unresisting Arabs about, and kicking them out of
the way, as in the miserable villages on the Nile ;
and, strong in the omnipotence of the firman, he
now hurried to the gate ; but he came back faster
than he went. I have no doubt that he was very
presuming and impudent, and richly deserved more
than he got; but, at all events, he returned on a
the usual apologies for meager fare on account of
its being Lent, went to the room assigned me ;
and had just sat down to dinner, when my poor
muleteer entered in greater distress than ever.
Afraid of the very thing that happened, he had
started immediately on his return to Hebron, and
at the gate his mules were seized by a soldier for
the use of the government. It was in a spirit of per*
feet wretchedness that the poor fellow, still smart-
ing under the loss of his clothes, almost threw him-
self at my feet, and begged me to intercede for
him. I was, of course, anxious to help him if I
could, and immediately rose to go with him ; but
Paul told me to remain quiet, and he would settle
the matter in five minutes. Paul was a great ad-
mirer of the pacha. Wherever his government
was established, he had made it safe for the trav-
eller ; and Paul's courage always rose and fell ac-
cording to the subdued or unsubdued state of the
population. In the city of Jerusalem the wind
could scarcely blow without the leave of Ibrahim
Pacha ; and Paul had mounted on stilts almost as
soon as we crossed the threshold of the gate. He
had already been at his old tricks of pushing the
unresisting Arabs about, and kicking them out of
the way, as in the miserable villages on the Nile ;
and, strong in the omnipotence of the firman, he
now hurried to the gate ; but he came back faster
than he went. I have no doubt that he was very
presuming and impudent, and richly deserved more
than he got; but, at all events, he returned on a