Note 15
Chapter 77. Haydée
A Turkish pasha in command of the troops of a province.—Ed.
“Had treated with the Seraskier[15] Kourchid, who had been sent by the sultan to gain possession of the person of my father; it was then that Ali Tepelini—after having sent to the sultan a French officer in whom he reposed great confidence—resolved to retire to the asylum which he had long before prepared for himself, and which he called kataphygion, or the refuge.”
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