nes and pistols. After a conflict of
no long duration, the cavalry of the enemy fled in dismay, while those
who fought on foot fell on their faces, throwing their shields over
their heads to secure them from the tramp of the cavalry, and implored
mercy.

In consequence of the result of this affair, all the country between the
place of combat and Shageia, i.e. the country occupied by the castles
and immediate subjects of the Maleks of Shageia, submitted and were
pardoned. The Pasha pursued his march to the province of Shageia, where
Malek Shouus, the principal among the Shageia chiefs, had collected the
whole force of the republic of the brigands with a determination to risk
another battle. The Pasha found, on his arrival, a part of their force
posted on an island near the long mountain I have mentioned in my
journal as having been the scene of a combat a few day? before I reached
it. Those of the enemy who were in the island were forthwith attacked by
troops sent over in the boats which accompanied the army, and were cut
to pieces or driven into the river. The army then advanced to attack the
great mass of the enemy in their position on the mountain. It was a
very advantageous one. The mountain runs nearly at right angles with the
river, which it nearly reaches, leaving between itself and the river a
tract of ground about a quarter of a mile in width, which at the time
was covered with plantations of durra. The enemy were posted on the
side of this mountain and among the durra in the open ground between the
mountain and the river; so that their rear was secured by the mountain,
and their right covered by a strong castle at the foot of its extremity
lying off from the river. Malek Shouus, Malek Zibarra, and the other
chiefs of Shageia, and their immediate followers, composed the cavalry
of the enemy. They had assembled, either by force or persuasion, all
the peasantry subject to their dominion, the whole forming a mass
which blackened the whole side of the mountain. Their arms consisted
of lances, shields and long broad swords double-edged. These wretched
peasants, who were all on foot, their masters posted in front in order
to receive and exhaust the fire of the Pasha's troops; while Shouus and
the cavalry occupied the rear in order to keep the peasants to their
posts, and to have the start of the Pasha's cavalry in case they
should find it necessary to take to flight. The Pasha posted his troops
parallel to the enemy,