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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