Excerpt from The Holy War in Tripoli For the material of the story related in the following pages I am chie y indebted to the tolerance of the Turkish military authorities, who, though knowing me for an outspoken critic of the Government which they served, yet permitted me not only to see all that I wished to see, but also to carry away my notebooks, without even exacting a promise that I should not make improper use of their contents. I was deeply touched by this implicit trust in my honour, and I have done my best to prove worthy of it. It is not a very easy task for anyone who takes his functions of chronicler seriously to combine discretion with candour, and to reconcile the obligations of hospitality with the demands of historic impartiality. I have endeavoured to perform this difficult task by withholding from publication any details, military or topographical, that might be of advantage to the enemy, while, in all other matters, reserving to myself full freedom of Speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."