The answer pleased Bonaparte... and he pressed the man to ask for something... And seeing no way out of asking, he said:

— Then I ask his honor the commander to ease my way to travel to Egypt.

That man was Salameh Hashimeh of Bikfaya.

And a second story:

The armies of the commander Bonaparte had swept away the state of the Mamluks in Egypt and scattered them in every direction... This displeased the Ottoman State, and anxiety over India seized the English, so they concluded with Constantinople an alliance against that adventurous commander; and the consequence of it was his failure at the siege of Acre and his withdrawal from it.

No sooner had he returned to Egypt than the armies of Constantinople advanced upon it and waged against him a war after which he was forced to take ship and return to France.

Now in one of the divisions of the Ottoman army there was a bold Arnaut soldier named Muhammad Ali. Hardly had the French left the valley of the Nile, and the Mamluks returned to spread their dominion over it, than ambition crept into him and the love of adventure awoke in his soul... His devil made it seem fair to him to seize the throne of that country, and he said in his heart: — May I not, like these Mamluks, sit upon this throne?

His complete manliness had won him the affection of many of his fellow soldiers... and these were in constant revolt at the government's delay in paying their wages, so he saw that this was the point he must exploit to attain his desire. But the matter required money, and he had no money. Whence, then, was he to get it?

There was a tavern he was in the habit of frequenting, belonging to a man from Lebanon named Yusuf Kanaan. Yusuf used to receive him warmly in his tavern — perhaps it was his fear of "the Arnaut" that moved him to it — but Muhammad

Ali never thought of that, and took Yusuf's warmth for friendship, and so came to count him among the

foremost of his friends.

And Yusuf noticed that something in his friend had changed... He

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