On roaming the camp of the 8th Infantry Regiment a certain captain found an outsider in the quarters of his company. He asked him where he was from, and the stranger answered that he was a fellah from Egypt who had been visiting a relative of his, a sergeant-major in the same company, and had been staying with him for fifteen days. This was at the height of the siege of Acre when the entire army was supposed to be on high alert and when civilians, Egyptians or not, were forcibly refused entry to the camp unless they carried a stamped certificate stating explicitly the reason for and nature of their visit. Alarmed, the captain summoned one of his lieutenants to order the sergeant-major in question to ask his friend to leave the camp, since, as he said, "there is no business for strangers here (barrani adamin işi yoktur)." When later it was discovered that the fellah was still on the premises, the captain summoned the fellah again and asked him why he had still not left. The fellah answered that he had nothing to do in the camp but had come to see his relative and now that this had been done he would be moving out. The captain then threatened him that if he did not leave at once, he would arrest him and have him beaten. When the sergeant-major heard this he went to the captain and complained of the way his friend was being treated. He explained that he and the fellah were from the same village and added that he would not order his friend out unless there were a ship available and ready to take him back to Egypt. The captain then arrested the fellah and beat him. In addition, he also arrested the sergeant-major and had him imprisoned. While in prison, and from behind bars, the sergeant-major shouted at his captain that it was only because the captain had recently been moved from another company that they could not get along together and that if they had been serving together in the same company, all this could have been avoided, and "I would have been accepted by you (senin yaninda makbul olurdum)."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1108