The balls sung in the air, the bullets hailed around him, the noise drew blood from the ears of those with him.

Calm and immovable, he gave signals to the soldiers who were still occupying part of the ruins of Janina, and encouraged them by voice and gesture.

Observing the enemy's movements by the help of a telescope, he improvised means of counteracting them.

Sometimes he amused himself by greeting curious persons and new-comers after a fashion of his own.
Thus the chancellor of the French Consul at Prevesa, sent as an envoy to Kursheed Pacha, had scarcely entered the lodging assigned to him, when he was visited by a bomb which caused him to leave it again with all haste.

This greeting was due to Ali's chief engineer, Caretto, who next day sent a whole shower of balls and shells into the midst of a group of Frenchmen, whose curiosity had brought them to Tika, where Kursheed was forming a battery.