ircumstances highly detrimental to his reputation. Nor
were the other governors of the city, who had dealt unjustly with the
exalted Prisoner in their charge and His fellow-exiles, spared a like
fate. "Every pa_sh_a," testifies Nabil in his narrative, "whose conduct in
Akka was commendable enjoyed a long term of office, and was bountifully
favored by God, whereas every hostile Mutisarrif (governor) was speedily
deposed by the Hand of Divine power, even as 'Abdu'r-Rahman Pa_sh_a and
Muhammad-Yusuf Pa_sh_a who, on the morrow of the very night they had
resolved to lay hands on the loved ones of Baha'u'llah, were
telegraphically advised of their dismissal. Such was their fate that they
were never again given a position."

_Sh_ay_kh_ Muhammad-Baqir, surnamed the "Wolf," who, in the strongly
condemnatory Lawh-i-Burhan addressed to him by Baha'u'llah, had been
compared to "the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain-top," witnessed
the steady decline of his prestige, and died in a miserable state of acute
remorse. His accomplice, Mir Muhammad-Husayn, surnamed the "She-Serpent,"
whom Baha'u'llah described as one "infinitely more wicked than the
oppressor of Karbila," was, about that same time, expelled from Isfahan,
wandered from village to village, contracted a disease that engendered so
foul an odor that even his wife and daughter could not bear to approach
him, and died in such ill-favor with the local authorities that no one
dared to attend his funeral, his corpse being ignominiously interred by a
few porters.

Mention should, moreover, be made of the devastating famine which, about a
year after the illustrious Badi had been tortured to death, ravaged Persia
and reduced the population to such extremities that even the rich went
hungry, and hundreds of mothers ghoulishly devoured their own children.

Nor can this subject be dismissed without special reference being made to
the Arch-Breaker of the Covenant of the Bab, Mirza Yahya, who lived long
enough to witness, while eking out a miserable existence in Cyprus, termed
by the Turks "the Island of Satan," every hope he had so maliciously
conceived reduced to naught. A pensioner first of the Turkish and later of
the British Government, he was subjected to the further humiliation of
having his application for British citizenship refused. Eleven of the
eighteen "Witnesses" he had appointed forsook him and turned in repentance
to Baha'u'llah. He himself became involved in a scan