twithstanding their efforts, such was the disparity of their arms
against cannon and fire-arms, that only one of the Pasha's soldiers was
killed, and they are said to have lost seven hundred in the battle and
during the pursuit.]

[Footnote 23: I say "shot down," for the saber was found an unavailing
weapon, as these people are so adroit in the management of their shields
that they parried every stroke. I have seen upon the field where this
battle was fought several shields that had not less than ten or fifteen
saber cuts, each lying upon the dead body of the man who carried it, who
had evidently died by three or four balls shot into him. The soldiers
have told me that they had frequently to empty their carabine and
pistols upon one man before he would fall.]

[Footnote 24: When our troops approached the castle of Malek Zibarra,
his daughter, a girl of about fifteen, fled in such haste that she
dropped one of her sandals, which I have seen. It was a piece of
workmanship as well wrought as any thing of the kind could be even
in Europe. The girl was taken prisoner and brought to the Pasha, who
clothed her magnificently in the Turkish fashion and sent her to her
father, desiring her to tell him to "come and surrender himself, as he
preferred to have brave men for his friends than for his enemies." When
the girl arrived at the camp of Zibarra, the first question her father
asked her was, "My child, in approaching your father, do you bring your
honor with you?" "Yes," replied the girl, "otherwise I should not dare
to look upon you. The Pasha has treated me as his child, has clothed
me as you see, and desires that you would leave war to make peace with
him." Zibarra was greatly affected, and did make several efforts to
effect a peace with the Pasha, which were traversed and frustrated by
the other chiefs of the Shageias.]

[Footnote 25: Khalil Aga, who has passed the whole of the third
Cataract, found in several of the islands there ruins which were
probably those of monasteries, as he found there many of the stones
covered with Greek inscriptions, one of which he brought to me; I was
obliged to abandon it on the route, on the dying of the camel that
carried it.]

[Footnote 26: On my return to Egypt, I presented Mr. Salt with several
specimens, which are now in his possession.]

[Footnote 27: To which all the troops had been concentrated.]

[Footnote 28: It has been found, however, possible to pass the whole of
the thi