omewhat Universal-Peace-Society
one of getting out of the enemy's way. General Jochmus, we guess from
his name, was a Scotch schoolmaster, with a Latin termination--there
being no mistaking the Jock--and in his religious tenets we feel sure
he was a Quaker. The English officers attached to the staff had
immense difficulty in bringing the troops (if they deserve to be
called so) to the scratch; and we trust that, in all future
commentaries on the Art of War, the method adopted by Commodore
Napier, of throwing stones at his gallant army to force them forward,
will not be forgotten. The author before us had no sinecure, and after
the news of Ibrahim's retreat, galloped hither and thither, like the
wild huntsman of a German story, to discover by what route the
vanquished lion was growling his way to his den. With a hundred
irregular horse, furnished him by Osman Aga, he set out on a foray
beyond Jordan; and we do not wonder his two friends, Captain Lane, a
Prussian edition of Don Quixote, and Mr Hunter, who has written an
excellent account of his expedition to Syria, besides his old Beyrout
friend Giorgio, volunteered to accompany him.

"My motley troop, apparently composed of every tribe
from the Caspian to the Red Sea, displayed no less
variety in arms and accoutrements than in their personal
appearance, varying from the sturdy-looking Kourd,
mounted on his strong powerful steed, to the swarthy,
spare, and sinewy Arab, with his long reed-like spear,
his head encircled with the Kefiah, or thick rope of
twisted camels' hair; whilst the flowing 'abbage' waved
gracefully down the shining flanks of the high-mettled
steed of the desert. In short, such an assemblage of
cut-throat looking ruffians was probably never before
seen; and whilst the Prussian military eye of old Lane
glanced down our wide-spread and irregular line, I could
see a curl of contempt on his grey mustaches, though his
weather-beaten countenance maintained all the gravity of
Frederick the Great. The troop appeared to be divided
into two distinct parties--one Arab, the other Turkish;
and, on directing the two chiefs to call the 'roll' of
their respective forces, I found that many were absent
without leave, and the party which should have amounted
to a hundred cavaliers only mustered between seventy and
eighty. However, on the assurance that the rest would
speedily fo