Unexplored Syria

By Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Book Id: WPLBN0000624527
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Title:	Unexplored Syria
Author:	Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. CARTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER NOTES ON THE WATERSHED OF THE BA?ALBAK PLAIN, ON THE ?CEDAR BLOCK,? AND ON THE NORTHERN LIBANUS. I ARRIVED on December 31, 1869 why will not travellers be less chary of their dates?p at Damascus, where a bare?walled whitewashed cottage had been hired, and where the usual troubles of settling our? selves awaited me. Everything was to be done: the tenement wanted ?cleaning? and repairing; the stables and outhouses required additions which were often reconstructions; servants were to be engaged; horses and asses were to be bought. I found myself face to face with the difficulties of Arabic; of strange weights and measures, of new ideas; of outlandish manners and customs, which took me back half?a?dozen centuries, and which made me feel six times farther away from home than when living in Brazil. The hardest trial of all was to feel that every soul had a deep design upon my purse, from the little lad who stole my kitten for a khamsah (5 farthings) to the gray?headed dragoman who wore two medals presented to him by her Majesty?s government, and who would rather mulct me in a piastre (2« d.) than not mulct me at all.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: UNEXPLORED SYRIA, 1 -- RICHARD F. BURTON AND CHARLES F. TYRWHITT DRAKE, 1 -- Chapter I. CARTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER NOTES ON THE WATERSHED OF THE BA?A2LBAK PLAIN, PART II. FROM THE CEDARS OF LEBANON TO ZAHLAH TOWN, 40 -- Chapter II. PRELIMINARY TOUR OF THE JEBEL DURUZ HAURAN EXPLORATION O0F THE UMM PART I. PRELIMINARY TOUR IN THE JEBEL DURUZ HAURAN, 50 -- PART II. EXPLORATION OF THE UMM NIRAN CAVE AND THE TUTUL EL SAFA, THE V9OLCANIC