Syria and the Holy Land - their scenery and their people - incidents of travel, &c. from the best and most recent authorities (1844) (14592363498)

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Title: Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &c. from the best and most recent authorities
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Kelly, Walter Keating
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ourselves somewhere else by fair means or by foul, as in time of war;and with this intention the Prince, the Baron, and myself, rode into the village. Just at the entrance we found a house with a forecourt, in which someArab women were standing, but they scampered off the moment they sawus. I jumped from my horse and made after them into the house. WhenI stepped in, a couple of women set up a squall and hid themselves, and anold Arab lying by the fire would no doubt have followed their example, onlyhe happened to be asleep when I popped in upon him; and when he awoke, ROUTE FROM BEYROOT TO DAMASCUS. 179 he could only gaze on me in speechless and motionless surprise, as if I haddropped from the sky. I made signs to him that I wanted shelter for thenight for myself and two companions ; and I found that my pantomimesucceeded to admiration, particularly when I showed the old gentleman afew pieces of money. We called up Giovanni and the mookres, and soonmade ourselves as snug as we could.
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Interior of a House in Antilebanon. Though our present quarters had not a vestige of what we call comfortand convenience in Europe, for there was neither a stool to sit on nor abench to lie down on, still the place was a palace compared to that in whichwe had passed the preceding night. The interior of the house, as usual inthe villages, consisted of two nearly equal portions, of which that next thedoor was occupied by cows, goats, asses, &c, while the other had a floorraised three or four feet higher, and was appropriated to the humaninhabitants. There is usually no party wall between these two portions : thefloor of the platform consists of earth, trodden hard, and is covered with mats,or with cheap carpets, according to the fortune of the proprietor. There wasa fire-place in the corner, with a sloping flue, and the room was lighted bypieces of burning pinewood, supported by irons driven into the wall. The people of the house, as I have said, had all hid themselves on myarrival