text:  But no sooner was the semblance of tranquillity restored than the Kaimakam Ismail Pasha an unscrupulous agent of the merciless decrees of the vizir was sent into Asia under the new title of Moufetish or inquisitor; and an unsparing proscription almost utterly exterminated all the remaining partizans of Abaza-Hassan without distinction of rank; while the suppression of numerous _timars_ or fiefs and the removal of the occupants of others from their ancient abodes to remote districts so effectually loosened the bands which had hitherto united the spahis like the janissaries into a compact fraternity that this once powerful body was divided and broken; and they no longer occupy as a separate faction their former conspicuous place in the troubled scene of Ottoman history