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Contents.
CHAPTER X.
The Environs of Damasous ... ... ... ••• ••• 100
CHAPTER XI.
The Hammam, or Turkish Bath—A Friendly Evening at a Harim- ... 105'
CHAPTER XII.
The Darwaysh Dance—The Great Mosque—The Houses of Lisbona and Ali Beg—The Jerid—Burial-Grounds—Post-office—Church and Money matters ... ... ... ... ... 124
CHAPTER XIII.
Revival of Christianity ... ... ... ... ... 137
CHAPTER XIV.
Palmyra, or Tadmor in the Wilderness ... ... ... ... 157
CHAPTER XV.
Palmyra* ancient Tadmor—Stables at Home and in Camp ... 176
CHAPTER XVI.
Zahran’s end—Chapels—Dragomans—Village Squabbles—Pariah Dogs
—Humane Society ... ... ... ... ... 196
CHAPTER XVII.
Moslem Wedding—Sickness—Beyrout—Excursions—Society, Schools,
and Missions—Return home—I fall in love with Damascus ... 210
CHAPTER XVIII.
Summer Quarters—Bludan in the Anti-Lebanon—Life- in the Anti- Lebanon—Lord Clarendon’s Death—Visitors—Mr. Palmer and Mr. Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake join us—We go Gipsying—Ba’albak and the Lebanon ... ... ... ... ... ... 222
CHAPTER XIX.
Disagreeables in Damascus—My Patients—Conscription—Village Squabbles—Mountain Life again—Vineyard Harvest—Moslems and Christians ... ... ... ... ... ... 241
