text:  The smouldering rancour with which the Arabs had all along regarded the Frank intruders upon their soil had by this time broken out into open hostility; and after some minor acts of violence an attack was made on the night of November 9th on the Turkish wall across the isthmus (which had been additionally strengthened by redoubts and some guns ) by a body of 4000 men collected from the Abdallis the Futhalis and the other tribes in the neighbourhood