text:  There can be no doubt but that if the Arabs had been left to themselves this state of things would have ended in all the contending parties being speedily swallowed up in the dominions of Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt; who under pretence of re-asserting the ancient rights of the Porte to the sovereignty of Yemen had already occupied Mokha and Taaz and was waging war with the tribes in the neighbouring coffee country whom he had exasperated by the treacherous murder of Sheikh Hussein one of their chiefs who having been inveigled by the Egyptian commander into a personal conference was shot dead like the Mamlukes at Cairo in the tent of audience