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Title: With the Turks in Palestine

Author: Alexander Aaronsohn

Release Date: November 30, 2003 [EBook #10338]

Language: English

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WITH THE TURKS IN
PALESTINE

BY

ALEXANDER AARONSOHN

[ILLUSTRATION: DJEMAL PASHA]

1916

TO MY MOTHER

WHO LIVED AND FOUGHT AND DIED
FOR A REGENERATED
PALESTINE

_What have I done, or tried, or said
In thanks to that dear woman dead_?

MASEFIELD

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

To the editors of the _Atlantic Monthly_,
to the publishers, and to the many
friends who have encouraged me, I
am and shall ever remain grateful

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. ZICRON-JACOB

II. PRESSED INTO THE SERVICE

III. THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA

IV. ROAD-MAKING AND DISCHARGE

V. THE HIDDEN ARMS

VI. THE SUEZ CAMPAIGN

VII. FIGHTING THE LOCUSTS

VIII. THE LEBANON

IX. A ROBBER BARON OF PALESTINE

X. A RASH ADVENTURE

XI. ESCAPE

ILLUSTRATIONS

DJEMAL PASHA
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

SAFFED
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

THE AUTHOR ON HIS HORSE KOCHBA
_Photograph by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, in March, 1911_

SOLDIERS' TENTS IN SAMARIA

NAZARETH, FROM THE NORTHEAST
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

HOUSE OF THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, EPHRAIM FISHL AARONSOHN,
IN ZICRON-JACOB

IN A NATIVE CAFE, SAFFED
_Photograph by Mr. Julius Rosenwald_

A LEMONADE-SELLER OF DAMASCUS
_Photograph by Mr. Julius Rosenwald_

RAILROAD STATION SCENE BETWEEN HAIFA AND DAMASCUS
_Photograph by Mr. Julius Rosenwald_

CAMELS BRINGING IN NEWLY CUT TREES, DAMASCUS
_Photograph by Mr. Julius Rosenwald_

THE CHRISTIAN TOWN OF ZAHLEH IN THE LEBANON
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

HAIFA
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

HAIFA AND THE BAY OF AKKA. LOOKING EAST FROM
MOUNT CARMEL
_Photograph by Underwood & Underwood_

THE BAZAAR OF JAFFA O