rtue of the agreement made on this occasion by me, and returned without
molestation from these people.
{332} This I repeat after having travelled at different times on most
parts, north, west, and south of the lake, and read all that has been
printed about the eastern side. (1867.)
{339} Since writing the above, we learn from Lieutenant Warren's very
interesting letters that the Turkish Government have sent a large force
into the trans-Jordanic region, with a view of chastising the Arabs: it
remains to be seen whether this measure will leave any permanent
effects.--(_Nov._ 1867.)
{405} Especially in a book probably little known, but published as
"Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess. By (herself) Marie Therese Asmar,"
who was in London in 1845, and supported for a time by fashionable
patronesses of romantic Orientalism.
{408} The events of 1860-61 led to a tragical termination of the career
of this young chieftain.
{419} Mr Tristram has since done this, but on foot, the rugged road
being impassable in any other way.
{432} Bait Zacari and Zecariah lie far away among the mountains in the
south-west. Neither of them would command the road which Judas desired
to intercept--neither of them therefore answers to the Bath Zacharias of
the history any more than Baitzur near Hebron does to Bethsura--all are
equally out of the question by reason of their distance.
{440} Very common in Oriental Christendom, and called by the Greeks the
[Greek text] (semantron.)
The ancient Britons used to summon the congregation to church service by
means of "sacra ligna," is it not likely that these were the same as the
above, seeing that the Celtic nations were derived from the East?
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