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Rh lives, probably not more than 1,000 in all, besides those who were killed in the Zeitoon and Sassoun struggles.

For the sake of truth and humanity it must be said that some influential Turks defended their neighborhood and personal friends, and gave them shelter and provision for days; and some of them dared to express their disgust against this unjustifiable bloodshed. Some of the murderers are reported to have felt "pain in their brains" and suffered much in their imagination if not in their conscience; but the great majority were very much pleased, yet not satisfied, and waiting eagerly for other orders of exterminating "giaours," and cleansing the country from the filthiness of "infidel hogs," and plainly expressed their sorrow that they did not use the first chance as they should.