The rain and storm having ceased after some time, the servants that watched without, and whose turn it was to relieve the two others that were on duty, came into the tent, and found Miren with those two unfortunate youths, plunged in the endless sleep of annihilation; and although such a sight did much surprise and frighten them, they recollected their minds enough to awaken some officers and sone other persons, without tumult and without noise. These getting silently into the tent, examined the body, and found that it had no fewer than five or six holes on the head, with six or seven streaks on the belly and back; and these last looked like so many strokes inflicted by an angry whip. On the sabre,* which was close to his pillow, they discovered two or three holes, where the metal seemed to have run; but the wood of his bed towards his head was entirely rotten. This strange event having been reported to His Highness the learned and excellent Sheh-mahmed-aaly-hazin (whom God may place amongst the highest of his elect!) that holy man, who knew Miren’s character, turned to the by-standers and said, See how the lightning from above has, by dint of search, found out its man, in the recess of that small tent.