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. 1889 Excerpt: ...Jewesses, to bring food and water to the sufferers. It was sad to see those young and strong men abandoned and hopeless. The Turkish pasha of Acre, so far as I could learn, had sent no aid, though he had troops and stores only some ten hours' ride from Tiberias. Such is a specimen of Turkish rule in Syria. I had many ...
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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. 1889 Excerpt: ...Jewesses, to bring food and water to the sufferers. It was sad to see those young and strong men abandoned and hopeless. The Turkish pasha of Acre, so far as I could learn, had sent no aid, though he had troops and stores only some ten hours' ride from Tiberias. Such is a specimen of Turkish rule in Syria. I had many opportunities during my residence in the country of seeing even worse instances of neglect, mismanagement, and tyranny. Two days after visiting the wounded Kurds in Tiberias, when riding over the scene of the conflict to Tabor, I saw several dead bodies, with vultures hovering over them. It was a terrible illustration of the well-known words of our Lord, " Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles or vultures be gathered together" (Matt. xxiv. 28). Some days later I visited the camp of the victorious Hawara, beside the fountain of Harod at the foot of Gilboa. I was invited to a banquet by the chief, and found him and his followers quietly dividing the spoil taken from the Kurds. They seemed to have no fear of the Government, or of being called to account in any way for their attack upon the irregular troops. They said, indeed, that they were safe, for they were under the protection of the English vice-consul of Haifa. Whether this was so or not I cannot now tell; but if so, it is only one of many instances I could give of the unjustifiable interference of foreign consuls in the internal affairs of Turkey. Sometimes interference is necessary and salutary. Everything depends upon the character of the consul. As a rule, however, when native Arabs or Levantines are put into such a position, their object is to make money, and their authority is mischievous. KHAN ET-TUJJAR. r IHE road from Hattin to Tabor runs through delightful, pa...
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