Haim’s career, romantic as it was, derives a peculiar interest from one of its incidents, which makes the _Pasha_ appear as a monster of barbarity and madness. The story sounds like the invention of a wild imagination, but is a real, indisputable fact. We mentioned with regard to Jazzár’s activities in Damascus that living monuments of his cruelty remained behind in the shape of the noseless faces and earless heads of the Damascenes. This passion for maiming and mutilating seems to have grown with him in Acre. The Rev. John Wilson¹ (1804‒1875) tells us: “Almost every one in his domestic establishment was maimed. Some wanted a hand, some a foot; others mourned over the loss of a toe, a finger or an ear, according as the rage of the tyrant happened to be directed. Haim Farhi was an able man and withal of fine figure and prepossessing address. He enjoyed the confidence of the _Pasha_, and grew rich in his employment. One day Ahmad (Jazzár) said to him: ‘Haim, you have a fine person, you are very beautiful, you are the most athletic of men; when visitors come, it is you, not me, they admire; every one seems to say how happy is the _Pasha_ to have such a man: Now, because of this I had some thoughts of dismissing you from your office; but my great love to you prevents that; you cannot, however, have any objection to my putting out one of your eyes.’ The barber was instantly sent for; and Haim Farhi lost his eye. He continued in his office, and faithfully discharged its duties, and the _Pasha_ continued to heap favours upon him. The Jew, however, was attentive to his appearance, and dexterously contrived to edge down his turban so skilfully that his visual defect was not much observed. Jazzár noticed this, and said to him one day, ‘All I have done has been of no use, you have become as beautiful and as attractive as ever; I must cut off your nose.’ The barber was again sent for, and Haim lost his nose. He still continued in the service of the _Pasha_, and discharged his duties faithfully, and even presided over the obsequies of his tyrannical benefactor.” ¹ Land of the Bible ... Edinburgh, 1847. Vol. ii., _pp._ 341‒342. Note 1. CHAPTER XIII. NAPOLEON IN PALESTINE Bonaparte approaching _Jerusalem_――Anti-Jewish accusations ――Bonaparte and the Christians――Suleiman _Pasha_――Abdallah _Pasha_――Haim Farhi’s martyr death――The Farhi family ――Generations of martyrs. THROUGH the primitive but excellent channels of information of the Eastern caravans, Bedouins and Dervishes, Bonaparte must have heard of this treatment of the Jewish minister by the “Butcher,” and of the other atrocities committed by him. The expulsion of the French from Acre, Sidon and Beyrout by this _Pasha_ in 1791 was still fresh in his memory as an insult to France.