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Through
Achmad Djizer’s unexampled severity and fearful cruelty, which he exercised
everywhere, in all relations, and for the smallest trifle, such fear and anxiety
were excited among the Arabs, that the whole country was quiet and secure, and
the robber Arabs and Bedouins conducted themselves as peaceably as lambs. You
could travel by night through the whole country without being molested by any
one. A respectable citizen of Akko went one evening to take a walk outside the
town, and met at a great distance from it, an Arab woman, who was pursuing her
way quite alone. He asked her, whether she had no fear to walk alone at so great
a distance from the town; to which she replied, “Thanks be to Alla, so long as
he keeps alive our Efendi (Lord), one is safe everywhere.” The citizen had the
next day some business at the Pacha’s, and anxious to compliment him upon his
being so generally feared throughout the country, he related to him the answer
of the Arab woman. “What!” he exclaimed, in a rage, “thou venturest to
terrify the poor woman to ask her whether she has any fear to walk alone! since
she must have felt some little fear in the moment when thou didst put the
question to her.” And he had him executed on the spot, out of a tender
compassion and pity for the poor Arab woman, who must have experienced some
fear.
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