At length the rebels within the city somehow let in their friends outside, and it was an hour of terror when they took possession of the mission house, which was near the castle, dug loopholes through its walls, and began to fire on the soldiers of the fortress.

The fire was of course returned, and the building, already shattered by the earthquake, was torn by the Egyptian cannon; while both it and the garden were filled with a multitude of lawless and angry rebels.

The families found refuge in a lower room of the house, where the walls were thick, and there listened to the cannon balls as they whistled above them.

The arrival of Ibrahim Pasha at length quieted the city.
Able to return to his family on the 11th of July, Mr.Thomson found his wife suffering from ophthalmia, with high inflammatory fever.
Two days afterwards, Mr.Nicholayson was attacked with a fever, and the children were all sick.

The case of Mrs.Thomson baffled all their skill.