text:  Its subsequent discontinuance is said to have been owing to an insult then offered by the guild of _emirs_ (or descendants of the Prophet) to the Austrian Internuncio who was detected in witnessing incognito the procession of the Sandjak-Shereef deemed too sacred for the eyes of an infidel--and a tumult ensued in which many Christians were maltreated and murdered and which had nearly led to a rupture with the court of Vienna