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HOTIGJES OF BOOKS. 419
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_tiansand those only Emirs , had ever seen any of the . latter ; even the Emir of Beit astonished , Miry , out , but of three all Arab hours gravity from at so a large _silver a European mounted six town -barrelled as JBeyrout revolver , was
with which I was one day practising at a mark on one of the trees near his , beautiful house . He little implored boyhis me with and heir clasped to - see hands the to siht wait and while then he when fetched I had a
, son , g , to refired whether it for the his edification came he from solemnl Sheit y app _& n ? lauded I am his convinced little son ' that s question the Emir ; , as weapon
himself believed that Satan reloaded it for nie ad _irifiriitum . « the "It Druzes is an unque against stionable the Christians fact that : the they Turks hate do both , and equall have always : but their encouraged object
y the is plain Christians , —the Druzes weak are in exceeding war but ly strong warlike in numbers and dexterous —and they in fig ther hting efore , —
are try have to done make the use hard of the work Druzes for them to exterminate they will come the Christians in with a — strong and when , hand they and believe that at least
< of get juite the the willing Druz small es to bod understand be y assisted of Druzes their into into game getting their , perfectl rid power of their y . , and I hereditary see throug enemies h it ; they , whom some are _,
th the Turks think are th always will take representing care of themselves as the authors afterwards of all : ill it wil against l not them be a , v and ery _•« asy ey thing to ey exterminate the Druzes . "
To the land of David and Saulto the wilderness of Jndea , and , to the supposed cave of Adullam itself we are led : — -
except "It is for scarcel the association y worth encountering of David and and the his certainl peril mighty of men the if this way with is to it Adullam . see Adullam the there cave is ,
is another said no to road mean Bedoueen at — all 'to to quit joined it . the Whe us true n demanding we road had , ' made baksheesh our y way , as well back as to those the who horses , had ,
refused helped in and gettin rode g off us a few to the , cave when and the had disappointed held the Arab horses rode , & c , . wrenched ; this we paces
the Bedoueens a bag others from , gave pursued our him maid him a ' s drubbing , saddle the dragoman ,. and , ; while ran succeeded , to down impress the in ravine them knocking with with him a when it sense ; , down the he of other , and our
power back that , I fire I could d thre fire e shots six shots over their all at heads once , at and bad told men Sheepskin ; he looked grave came and . astoundedas well he mightfor I soon remembered I had told him sixty
instead of , six in my bad Arabic , , and doubtless he thought my little revolver a gift from Sheitan ( Satan ) himself . "
Diniculties were not allowed to stand in the way of any object to be attainedas witness the ascent of Masada , the stronghold of
, -Simon _Maccabaeus . . i " We naet a couple of goatherds , whose shining astonishment bodies were nearl not y merely black ,
at and the almost unusual naked siht : th of ey traveller were overwhelmed sbut at their wi being th ladies ! Sheikh , Hamzeh of them g guideand , he led to a little spring at the foot _of
the engaged mountain one now called as Sebbeh , , once crowned us with the famous . Jewish ' fortress of Masada , . He told the goatherd to show foot us the could way up , but mount for
. some time the only answer he got was that woman ' s never that " The rock the rock ! It on certainl it which projects y Masada looked from rather stands the line appalling is a perpendicular of cliffs . and would of 1 , 500 be feet entirel high y ,
climb narrow facing separated connecting Sheikh from sea _^— them Hamzeh neck by of the and smooth deep the Bedoueens chasm sloping which rock took — runs - , up off behind this their neck it sandals , we but were for and to a
. neve abbahs r . the , and less in p rags inned when up our we descended riding _habitis )—an closel d then y , around we slowl us y —( crept they up were the ,
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Hotigjes Of Books. 419
_HOTIGJES OF BOOKS . 419
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/59/
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