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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS UPON LEBANON ITS RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CONDITION. I Doubt not it will be thought that, having recurred so frequently of late to these mountains and their inhabitants, I must shortly be about to branch off upon other topics. But no, patient reader! (for pu deserve the Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS UPON LEBANON ITS RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CONDITION. I Doubt not it will be thought that, having recurred so frequently of late to these mountains and their inhabitants, I must shortly be about to branch off upon other topics. But no, patient reader! (for pu deserve the title if you have followed me thus far), I have intended what little has been said merely as an introduction to a somewhat graver disquisition upon the same subject: for, let me assure you, it is upon this that every thing of interest in the country hinges. Whether you follow me in 78 LEBANON AND ITS TRIBES. search of incident, or, mayhap, in hope of some new gleam on a dark page of history, or, if with a still higher bent, would reach to a correct political opinion upon that important portion of the East-whatever of these be your motives, I invite you, as the best means of realising such postulata, to accompany me in this proposed further digression Upon Lebanon And Its Tribes. Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, Whiten'd with eternal sleet; While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping, rosy, at its feet. It would afford us no small interest, did it come within our province to trace, even in outline, the history of this important range, including, as do its annals, almost every era of the world, and preserving its Canaanitish title (Leben-white, from the snow upon its extreme summits) through every successive gradation of Phoenician, MOUNTAIN INDEPENDENCE. 79 Persian, Greek, Roman, and Arabian dynasties. The mere enumeration of these separate stages of its history renders its prolonged consideration impracticable, but must serve to impress us with an interest in the locality. There is not, I should think, a spot on earth better adapted. Books, History~~General, Narrative-Of-The-Late-Expedition-To-Syria~~W-Patison-Hunter, 999999999, Narrative Of The Late Expedition To Syria (V. 2), W. Patison Hunter, 021726168X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. EXCURSIONS IN LEBANON--A VISIT TO THE EMIR CASSIM. The last chapter concluded rather abruptly with the story of the reconnaissance on the enemy at Zahle. I must add a few words of explanation as to the unfavourable light in which that account may seem to place the mountaineers, in respect to moral courage. There are two points which, when recited, go far to remove such impressions. The one, that the Emir Abdallah feared the responsibility of exposing his men to conflict in the absence of the Emir Beschir; and the other, that, in common with the bravest of their class, such men feel a want of nerve THE MOUNTAINEERS. 29 when away from their own hills. They had besides experienced many severe lessons of the discipline and superiority of organised cavalry in the plain--and Ibrahim''s cavalry was the most effective portion of his army. The former reckless severities, also, practised by Ibrahim, when he maintained a large standing army in the country without foreign foe, had still left ill-defined traits of fear in their minds. And now, although Ibrahim had in reality fallen, his mere name was associated with the same exaggerated notions of power and evil design. But these mountaineers, when the rest of Syria was resistless under the iron rule of the Egyptian Pacha, had waged war against him; and though many thousand troops were at different times collected in the Boccah, in order only to make harassing incursions into their mountains--though their villages were frequently pillaged and burnt--their intercourse with the markets of the country 30 AN EXCURSION. interrupted--their chiefs bought over to side with their oppressor--under every disadvantage they still had defied, and defied successfully, the power of Ibrahim. On these grounds, therefore, I b... W. Patison Hunter, Books, History, Narrative Of The Late Expedition To Syria (volume 2); Under The Command Of Admiral The Hon. Sir Robert Stopford. Comprising An Acc Books>History, General Books LLC<

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