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 350 KESOUllCES OBTAINED FROM CHAPTER XXIII. CHAP. When the people of the neighbouring district ■^^"^' came to see the strength of the armies descend- Deputations j^-jf^ upon their coast, the head men of the villages from 111 e Tar- ir> I ' c [S'the En- hegan to present themselves at the qnarters of "uartera ° ^^^^ Allics. The fiist of these deputations was received by Lord Eaglan in the open air. The men were going up to headquarters when they passed near a group of officers on foot in blue frock-coats, and they learned that the one whose maimed arm spoke of other wars was the English General. They approached him respectfully, but without submissiveness of an abject kind. Neither in manner, dress, appearance, nor language, would these men seem very strange to a traveller ac- quainted with Constantinople or any of the other cities of the Levant. They wore the pelisse or long robe, and although their head-gear was of black lamb-skin, it was much of the same shape as the Turkish fez. They spoke with truthfulness and dignity, allowing it to appear that the invasion was not distasteful to them, but abstaining from all affectation of enthusiastic sympathy. They