The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-09-23


chant, let it be the French: if we only
could keep our money and our women out
of their reach, they are good humored inf
dels enough, they love fantasia, they are
always merry"
cit was not easy" said the divine, "when
they were here, to keep either our money
or our women from the Cafres-confusion
to their race; the other infdels plundered
the people less; but who loved them more
Were they not both the enemies of Gods
prophet and his laws :"
A good looking young man in an Arnaout
uniform, who had hitherto been silent, now
gave his opinion of the two powers: "The
English Giaours," said he, shave the most
money, because they have only to send to
India for as many ship loads as they please,
and they can better afford to pay men for
fighting for them than the others. The
French bring no money with them; WHEREBY
er hey go, they pillage, but they never
take. paras away with them after all.
Whichever gives the best rations, is the
Giaour for an Arnaout."
"Surely" exclaimed the Malim, "you
would not draw your sword for dog, a
Christian ?"
"For no man who did not pay me-" re-
piled the Arnaout, evading the question.
"What. for Caffre ?" reioined the Ma
lin.
"Why not" said the Arnaout, "when
the business is to cut another Cafre' s
throat z"
This was a good joke, and every one
felt himself bound to laugh. When silence
was restored, the lawyer put question
which puzzled the whole assembly exceed
ingly: "Where is England ?" England"
replied the priest, with the supercilious air
of knowledge, "England is in London ~
i" La ls moush kiddi," cried the Efendi,
the man of learning: "England is not in
London, London is only town, but Eng
land is in the great sea of the north, il is
an island like America, which is also Eng
lish"
"That's impossible" said the lawyer, " so
great nation never could be an island
are the people of Scio or Cyprus to be COM
pared to the English, and are not both those
places islands p
"Do the French come from an island
too ?" said Sheik, from Assouan, who had
tina, "there cannot be many of them, then"
w HCh tuCJ WCiO ISICt SdIu Tue Aldu-
lin, "there was no scarcity of them, they
were forty thousand strong in Scanderia
alone"
"Do not talk of thousands" exclaimed
the priest, "caLlam miLLiouni, the word is
millions; were they not like locusts from
Scanderia to Assouan ?"
"Wih Ten thousand Arnaouts," said the
young soldier, 81 would have driven them
into the sea, every Cafre of them. How
many thousands of English did we not tram
pie on, in Raschid few years ago."
NThey were five and twenty thousand
strong in Rosetta" said the lawyer, "and
they were all slain"
"Not ALL" answered the Efendi, "the
General got his life, but there were only
five thousand of them altogether"
give thousand or twenty" cried the
lawyer, "is it not the same thing were
they not all infidels, and were they not
vanquished with the sword of Islam %
"Allah karim," cried the priest, "God is
most merciful; such be the fate of all who
believe not in the true prophet, to whose
name be eternal glory"
eff the Sultan" said the Effendi chad
taken off the heads of the Janissaries hun
uieu years dSO; law Vi 1oluill NOUlu HOW
be spread over the whole earth"
AS it Isl" replied the priest, "are not
the true believers like the stars of heaven?
who can count them? is not their empire
over the whole earth from the rising even
TO the setting place of the sun ?"
sit is not in the Frozen Ocean, however,"
said the Levantlne, "there are no Moslems
there"
sit is lie," said the priest, "they are
every where, the prophet has said it"
"What, in America ?" asked the Levar-
tine, "it was only discovered few years
ago."
"Well, then, if it was not known to the
prophet" replied the priest, "of course he
had nothing to say to it."
"But," continued the Levantine, in low
voice, "the law of the prophet could not be
intended for all mankind"
alt was meant for the universe" said the
priest, "and hell's fire is the portion of him
who rejects it."
"If every man is bound to fast the Ram
azan, from sunrise to sunset" replied the
Levantine, " on the pain of Reproduction, the
Moslems Of the Frozen Ocean, where the
days are six months long, would feel some
what exhausted"
81 do not believe it," cried the priest in
fury, "who ever saw day six months
long? who could sleep an entire night of
six months long ?-no man."
But l read it in book" said the Lee
vantine, "written by the famous Volney."
"What is written in the perspicuous VOL
ume of TRUTH" replied the priest, "admits
neither of doubt or disputation there is not
a word in the Koran concerning the days of
six months duration, neither of the nights,
and therefore | dsbslieve it, because it is
impossible"
"Kaf," said the Levantine, edo as you
please, but truth is one ;" very common
expression of the Arabs, and is generally
the ne plus ultra in an argument"
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