INDEX

Abbasides, [110]
'Abd el hamīd Bey, [104], [133]
Abdallah, [182], [191]
Abisha, [198]
Abraham, [24], [177], [202], [209], [222]
Abu-dis, [5]
Acacias, [22], [253], [311] (farnesiana, tortilis, seyal)
Academy of France, [61], [62]
Acre or Akko, [247], [252], [256]
Acropolis, [238], [308]
Adam Smith, Professor George, [72], [202], [204], [235]
Adonis, [253]
Adummim, [9]
Adwân, [118]
Ægean, [234]
Agriculture, elementary, [125], [146]
— English, [227]
— German, [248]
— scientific, [38]
Ahab, [204], [205], [215]
Ahaziah, [235]
Ain Es-Shech, [160], [167]
Ain Es-Sultan, [14]
Ain El-Mastaba, [146]
Ain et Tâbigha, [287] (see Bethsaida)
Ain Fesail, [341]
'Ajlûn, [100], [127]
Akal, [4], [24], [48]
Al Chirnik, [66]
Alexander, [199]
Alexander the Great, [207]
Algeria, [279]
Allah, [31], [76]
Almonds, [171], [253]
Altar, [232], [233], [239]
Ammân, [94], [101], [105], [106], [107], [113], [116], [118], [119], [124], [125], [128], [129], [131], [132], [138], [139], [140], [141], [148], [301]
Ammon, [126]
Ammoperdix heyi, [33]
Amphitheatre, [308], [315], [316]
Amulets, Jewish, [13]
Anastatica, [36]
Anatolia, [104]
'Anazeh, [96], [100]
Anemones, [203], [228], [245], [253]
Angel, [318]
Animals, wild, [32], [33], [255]
Anthony, [13]
Antiques, [196], [231], [239], [240], [324]
Antoninus Martyr, [271], [276]
Apocynacea, [35]
Apostles' Fountain, [8]
Apples, [204]
"Apple of Sodom," [36]
Apricot-tree, [107], [108], [204]
Aqueduct, [8], [235], [239], [286], [297], [329]
Arabia, [43], [54]
— Central, [7], [40]
— Roman, [69]
Arab steed, [5], [6]
Arabs, [17], [48], [66]
— characteristics, [112], [181], [182], [213], [251], [325], [333]
Arabs, customs, [122], [296], [299]
— effect of climate upon, [12]
— good cooking among, [114], [237]
— superstitions of, [66]
— their dress, [24]
— their indifference to surroundings, [47]
— their lack of initiation, [12]
— traditions and sayings of, [71], [75], [76], [82], [127], [284], [326], [332]
Arak, [311]
Arbutus, [253]
Archæologist, [54], [55], [62], [80], [86], [101], [230], [232]
Archelais, [338], [344]
Archelaus, [338]
Architecture, domestic, [16]
— ecclesiastical, [68], [72]
— Byzantine, [83]
— Greek, [205], [282]
— Sassanian, [84]
Arculf, [258]
Ard' Abdallah, [46]
Arimathea, [104]
Ark of the Covenant, [188]
Arnon, [108], [126]
Arrow-head, [91]
Artemesium, [99]
Artemisia, [128]
Artist, the, [179]
Arums, [91], [98], [253]
Arvanitaki, M., [60]
Ascalon, [199]
Ashkenazim, [305]
Asia Minor, [63], [84], [103]
Asparagus, [278]
Asphodel, [254]
Asplenium-trichomanes, [253]
Asses, [24]
Assumptionist Order, [62]
Assyrians, [206]
Astarte, [233], [314]
Augusta, [207]
Augustus, [207], [343]
Azalea, [253], [306]
Azedarach (Pride of India), [311]

Baal, [46], [68], [207], [216], [233]
Ba'albek, [108], [127]
Baana, [233]
Bab-el Allah, [76]
Babylon, [234]
Bacilli (of tetanus), [9]
— (cholera), [13]
Backsheesh, [2], [22], [23], [31], [169], [193], [196], [201], [213]
Baedeker, [55], [80], [140]
"Baedeker," [179]
Balak, [46]
Balaam, [46]
Balm, [127]
Balsams, [13], [329]
Balsamum Gileadense, [127]
Bananas, [11], [19], [306]
Baptism, [12]
Barak, [266]
Bar Cochba, [304]
Barley, [278]
Barnabé d'Alsace, P., [273]
Basalt, [42], [71], [311]
Bashan, [128]
Basilica, [106], [208]
Bas-reliefs, [84]
Baths, [129], [209], [297], [305], [316]
Battlefields, [227], [266], [279]
Bawâbet Allâh, [76]
Bean, [294]
Bears, [185]
Bedu cemetery, [119]
— characteristics of, [23], [24], [55], [56], [67], [80], [164], [177], [291], [294], [296]
— versus Circassians, [106], [129]
— customs, [135], [166]
— funeral, [121], [122]
— and Hosea, [152], [153]
— pipe, [5]
Bedu songs, poems, and folklore, [96], [97], [118], [292]
— stories of, [291], [319]
— superstitions among, [66]
— traditions, [101]
— women's dress, [120]
(See also Beni Sakr, Shech Muhammed, Beni Hasan)
Beersheba, [202]
Beitin, [183], [185], [187]
Belad-er-Ruah, [228]
Belka, [104]-108, [111], [126], [127], [128], [155], [163], [170], [176], [334]
Benedictine convent, [8], [255], [276]
Beni Hasan, [135], [312]
Beni Jafn, [85]
Beni Sakr, [71], [83]
Benjamin, [179], [183]
— of Tudela, [199]
Besan, [284], [306], [310], [314], [315], [316], [317], [324], [325], [326], [327], [328], [329]
Bethabara, [312]
Bethany, [5], [8]
Bethel, [185], [194], [220]
Bethlehem, [45], [160], [194]
Bethsaida, [287], [301]
Bethshan, [227]
Beth-shean, [314], [315]
Biever, Father, [55], [287], [288], [292]
Bint Shech Luth, [10]
Birds, [11], [17], [18], [33], [34], [43], [191], [227], [246], [254], [296], [331], [332], [341]
Bir es Zet, [185], [192]
Bishlik, [337]
Bishopric, [54], [55], [158], [210], [304]
Blackberries, [125]
Blackbirds, [17], [34]
Bliss, Dr, [53], [55], [57], [87]
Blue (colour used as protection against Evil One), [4], [66]
Boar, [32], [255]
Boaz, [239]
Bones of babies, [232], [239]
Boniface of Ragusa, [226]
Bosphorus, [63]
Bougainvilea, [252], [285]
Bowen, [195] (Bishop of Sierra Leone)
Box Colony, [197]
Box-tree, [23]
Bridge, [22], [23], [28], [31], [141], [164], [168], [170], [307]
Brook Cherith, [15], [34], [175]
Brothers of St John the Divine, [263], [269]
Browning, [51], [78]
Brünnow, Professor, [54], [85]
Bulbul, [296]
Bulrushes, [331]
Burckhardt, [108], [109], [110], [111], [155]
Burial monument, [46]
Burton, Sir Richard, [87]
Byzantine architecture, [83]
— churches, [70], [110]
— priest, [63]

Caccabis saxatilis, [33]
Cactus, [226]
Cæsar, [207]
Cæsarea, [199]
Caifa, [247]
Cairns, [90]
Calcium, [10]
Calf, [185]
Callirhoe, [45], [306]
Calotropis procera, [36]
Camels, [12], [24], [38], [64], [66], [146], [263]
— in their natural surroundings, [65]
— droppings, [41], [75]
Camel's hair, [4], [24], [293]
Campanulas, [278]
Campus Legionis, [235]
Cana, [270], [271], [272] (see Kefr Kennâ)
Canaan, [232]
Canaanites, buildings of, [233]
Candlestick, seven-branched, [187]
Capernaum, [297], [298], [301]
Capers, [278]
Capitals, [56], [87], [119], [120], [142], [189], [211], [214], [298], [305], [316]
Capoéta, [290]
Caravans, [23], [74], [75], [76], [149]
Carmel, Mount, [190], [202], [228], [237], [244], [246], [247], [248], [249], [251], [252], [255], [266]
Carmelites, [249], [257]
Carnelian, [212]
Carobs, [204], [253]
Carpets, [156]
Carts, [104], [105]
Casale St Giles, [186]
Castal, [70], [71], [94]
Castle, Arab, [278]
— Arabian, [233]
— Belvoir, [310]
— at Castal, [95]
— of Crusaders, [12], [185], [264]
— of Es-Salt, [158]
— mediæval, [9]
— of Mshatta, [79]
— of Lazarus, [8]
— Saracenic, [70]
Cat, [25], [32], [251]
Cathedral, [57], [207], [210]
Caucasus, [103], [104]
Cave, [16], [101], [203], [285]
Cemetery, [119], [224], [272], [274]
Cenotaph, [101]
Censer, [240]
Centaureas, [254], [332]
Central Arabia, [7], [40]
Central Asia, [76]
Central Palestine, [219]
Chameleons, [278]
Chapel (Rijal el-'Amud), [190]
— of St Simon Stock, [25]
Charcoal-burners, [150], [153]
Chariot, [205], [314]
Chariton, St, [15]
Chats, [227], [331] (saxicola libanotica)
Cheetahs, [32]
Cherith, [15], [34], [175]
Cheilanthes-fragrans, [253]
Chiff-chaffs, [227]
Chlorides, [330]
Chloride of calcium, [10]
— of magnesium, [10]
Cholera, [2], [13], [75], [76], [157], [160], [169], [212], [284]
Chorazin, [301]
Chosroes II., [53], [83], [84], [85], [125]
Christian Brothers, [262]
Chromis paterfamilias, [290]
Chromis simonis, [290]
Chrysanthemum, [253], [254], [332]
Chub, [108]
Church, Christian, [71], [158], [298]
— Greek, [57], [58], [148], [195], [210]
— Latin, [148], [149], [270], [271]
Churches, [55], [60], [195], [202], [275]
— Byzantine, [70], [110]
Church of the Annunciation, [264], [265], [268]
— of Mount Carmel, [257]
— of Crusaders, [12], [264]
— of St Elias, [275]
— mediæval fortress, [189]
— of Knights of St John, [181]
— of St Louis, [255]
— of St Margaret, [255]
— of the Sovereign Mother of God, [57]
— of the Holy Sepulchre, [211]
Cinnyris oseæ, [34]
Circassians, [24], [76], [90], [97], [102], [103], [105], [110], [111], [118], [125], [127], [129], [134], [137], [138], [147], [158], [277]
Circle, stone, [45], [46]
Circus, [129], [143], [216]
Cistern, [14], [68], [81], [219], [285]
Cities, [67], [235], [236], [238], [282]
Civilisation, [45], [80], [110], [176]
Clay, [10]
Clarias macracanthus, [290]
Clematis cirrhosa, [253]
Clermont-Ganneau, Mons, [59], [61]
Cléopas, Père, [58], [60], [61], [62]
Cleopatra, [13]
Climate, [12]
Cock, [187]
Codex, Samaritan, [198]
Coffee, [111], [133], [136]
Coins, [196], [212], [315]
College, [196]
Colocynth, [228]
Colonies, [47], [83], [95], [104]
Colonists (German), [12], [105], [247], [252], [259]
Columns, [45], [109], [110], [119], [129], [130], [141], [142], [143], [185], [189], [205], [207], [209], [216], [298], [305], [316], [344]
Commerce, [13], [159]
Conder, [236]
Conduits, [14], [110]
Confessors, [315]
Constantinople, [63]
Constantine, [264]
Consuls, [248], [257], [313]
Convent, Benedictine, [8]
— at Mount Carmel, [252], [255]
— at Es-Salt, [153]
— at Nablûs, [193], [201]
— at Nazareth, [260]
— of St Pierre, [292]
— at Tiberias, [297]
Coracinus, [290]
Corinthian architecture, [56], [95], [109], [142], [143], [189], [298], [311]
Corn, [329]
Corn-crakes, [227]
Corvus affinis, [33]
Cotton, [195]
Cranes' bills, [227]
Crocuses, [91], [227], [253]
Cromlech, [148]
Crosses, [71], [211]
Crusades, [158], [315]
Crusaders, [12], [15], [104], [175], [181], [186], [207], [211], [252], [264], [303], [304]
Crystal, [212]
Cuckoo, [34]
Cufic inscriptions, [70], [71]
— coins, [196]
Cultivation, [43], [45], [55], [252], [279]
Curtiss, the late Professor, [223]
Cyclamen, [253]

Daisies, yellow, [227], [278]
Damascéna, capoéta, [290]
Damascus, [72], [74], [76], [84], [87], [101], [125], [177], [199], [314]
Dames de Nazareth, [262]
Dancing, [166], [294]
Dates, [29], [39], [329]
David, [222]
Dead Sea, [9], [10], [17], [32], [163], [173], [216], [328]
Dead Sea fruit (calotropis procera), [36]
Dead Sea valley, [43]
Deborah, [181], [232]
Decapolis, [127], [128], [129], [301], [315]
Decius, [315]
"Decline and Fall," [83]
Deerhound, [291]
Derwish, [75], [76], [162], [317]
Dhaher, [247]
Dieb, [294], [301]
Diocletian, [315], [329]
Diseases, [221], [306]
Divorce (documents of), [1]
Doctor, the, [2]
Documents (divorce), [13]
Dog, [25], [94], [205]
Dog-bane (apocynacea), [35]
Dolmen, [45], [46], [273]
Dolomite, [42]
Dominican, [53], [55], [61]
Donkey, [5], [8], [30], [45], [49], [107], [159]
Dor, [227]
Doric origin, [68]
Dôtân, [218]
Dothan, [218]
Doura, [278]
Dove, Indian turtle-(turtur risorius), [33]
Drake, Tyrwhitt, [87]
Droppings, [41], [75], [128]
Druses, [255], [292], [294], [295], [296]
Durand, Père Germer, [62]
Dyeing-sheds, [297]

Eagles, [331]
Ebal, Mount, [191], [192], [194], [201]
Ebenezer, [220]
Edinburgh Medical Mission, [263]
Egypt, Lower, [58]
El Aujeh, [344]
El Bireh, [179], [180], [183]
Elders, [253]
El-Ghor, [328], [329], [331]
El Hammâm, [316]
Eli, [188]
Elijah, [17], [171], [256], [266]
— Fountain of, [14], [15]
— hiding-place of, [15], [16]
Elisha, [185], [204], [208], [275]
El Lubban, [192]
Emir Nūh Bey, [103], [139]
Emperor, German, [212], [297]
Emperor Heraclius, [85]
Endor, [228], [269]
En-gannim, [224]
Engedi, [36]
Ephesus, [63]
Ephraim, [183], [187], [208]
Epiphany, [13], [292]
Epistle of an Arab Physician, [78]
Er-Rashid, [88]
Eryngo, [278]
Escort, [5], [6], [95], [118], [138], [340]
Esdraelon, [227], [228], [266]
Es-Salt, [50], [145], [153], [154], [155], [156], [157], [158], [159]
Essenes, [16]
Es Sumrah, [344]
Et Tâbigha, [284], [297]
Et-tayyibeh, [187]
Eusebius, [95], [235]
Evil One, [4], [66]
Excavation, [236], [238], [297], [316]
— Austrian, [231]
— German, [230], [231]
Excavations, [215], [227]
Ezekiel, [47]
Ezra, [198]
Ez-Zerka [126]

Falcon, Lanner-, [99]
Farnesiana, [22]
Fauna, [11]
Felis caligata, [32]
Felis-mas, [253]
Fellahin, [23], [24], [49], [80], [106], [119], [135], [140], [292], [293]
Fennel, [278]
Feral cat, [25]
Fergusson, [83]
Ferhad, [84]
Ferns, [253]
Ficus sycomorus, [14] (mulberry fig)
Figs, [17], [29], [39], [287]
Fig-tree, [160], [187]
Firearms, [213]
Fish, [108], [286], [289], [290]
Flax, [329]
Flint arrow-head, [91]
Flintlock, [213]
Flora, [11], [12], [35], [43], [91], [98], [99], [203], [227], [228], [245], [252], [253], [273], [278], [288]
Folklore, [186], [292]
Fords, [21]
Forests, [127], [149]
Fortress, [158], [209], [211], [217], [227], [234], [238], [239], [316], [327]
Forts, Roman, [68], [83], [94]
Forum, [110], [129], [141], [142], [209], [216], [282]
Fountain, Apostles', [8]
— Elijah's, [14], [15]
Foxes, [32] (canis niloticus, canis variegatus)
Franciscans, [61], [195], [226], [260], [262], [264], [265], [268], [270], [272], [275], [276], [289], [291], [297]
Francolin, [33]
Frenjy, the, [196], [201], [259], [280]
Fruit, [125], [156], [170], [204], [228]
Fruit, Dead Sea (calotropis procera), [36]
Fulke, King, [310]
Funeral, [121]

Gabinius, [207]
Gadara, [307], [308]
Galingale, [253]
Galilee, [126], [167], [220], [227], [228], [269], [281], [286]
Gardens, [20], [204], [205], [217], [224], [225], [226], [252], [264], [288]
Gazelle, [12], [32], [90], [93], [98], [128], [292]
Genista, [253]
Gennesaret, plain of, [285]
Geraniums, [91], [254]
Gerasimos, Patriarch, [60]
Gerizim, Mount, [191], [192], [194], [202]
— Temple of, [202]
Germans, [215], [248]
Gethsemane, Garden of, [8], [284]
Ghassanides, [85], [129]
Gibbon, [83]
Gideon, [125], [266]
Gilboa, [228], [237]
Gilead, [127], [128], [145], [265], [315], [328]
Giovanni of Frascati, Brother, [256]
Gladioli, [253]
Goats, [25], [56], [123]
Goat's hair, [4], [293]
Good Samaritan, Khan of, [6], [9], [176], [345]
Gorge of brook Cherith, [15], [16], [17], [18], [146], [147], [159]
Gothic cathedral, [207]
Government, the, [195]
Grakle, [17], [34]
Grapes, [156], [158]
Gravel limestone, [42]
Graves, [119], [152], [221] (see also Wely)
Great Plain, [272]
Greeks, [53], [199], [249], [260], [262]
Greenstone, [42]
Griffon-vulture, [99], [331]
Grottoes, [101], [344]
Grouse, sand, [33]
Grove, Sir George, [198]
Guelder-roses, [253]
Guide, [51], [214], [323], [324], [326], [327]
Guy de Lusignan, King, [279]

Hadramat, [90]
Haifa, [72], [244], [246], [247], [248], [252], [255], [256], [258], [259]
Haj, [75], [99], [100], [175], [340], [342]
Haji, [172]
Haj road, [74]
Hannah, [188]
Haram, [28]
Haroun-er-Raschid, [233]
Harvest, [48]
Haurân, [7], [85], [100], [111], [135]
Hawkweeds, [332]
Hawthorns, [253]
Hayil, [89]
Hebrides, Outer, [186], [295]
Hebron, [177], [194], [222], [270], [303]
Heesh, [157]
Hêhl, [133], [136]
Helena, [271], [275]
Henna, [4]
Heraclius, Emperor, [85]
Herbs, balsamic, [278]
Hermitages, [15], [18], [285]
Hermon, [188], [191], [280], [281], [284], [306], [334]
Herod, [13], [126], [207], [216], [281], [282], [285], [338], [343]
— palace of, [14]
Heshbon, [45], [47]
Hierapolis, [84]
High places, [68]
Highwaymen, [49]
Hill of the Cock (Jebel ed deek), [187]
Hill—Tel'at ed-Dam, [9]
Hills, [31], [43], [128], [147], [163], [191], [228], [265], [269], [310], [328]
Hippodrome, [207], [209], [216], [316]
"Historical Geography," [202], [204]
Holofernes, [315]
Hornstone, [253]
Horses, [4], [6], [24]
Hosea, [152], [223]
Hospice, Franciscan, [283]
— German Catholic Palæstina Verein, [287], [289], [291]
— at Haifa, [248], [249]
— of the Knights of St John, [181]
— Nazareth, [261], [263]
Hospital, Austrian, [269]
— at Carmel, [256]
— at Haifa, [248]
— Nazareth, [263]
— of the Templars, [195]
— at Tiberias, [283], [303], [323]
Hospitality, [51], [119], [131], [153], [156], [171], [172], [176], [255], [260], [287]
Hospitallers, [279]
Hotels, [20], [260], [283]
Hûsh or Hûshi, [104]
Hyacinths, [253]
Hyæna, [12], [32], [151], [255]
Hyrcanus, [54], [202], [207]
Hypnotic suggestion, [221]

Ibex, [32]
Ibn Rashid, [89]
Idol, [239]
Ignatius, [276]
Incense, Israelitish altar of, [233]
Indian turtle-dove, [33] (turtur risorius)
Inn of the Apostles' Fountain, [8]
— of the Good Samaritan, [9], [176]
Inscription, [57], [70], [71], [275]
Institute of British Architects, [84]
Institutions, [186], [263]
Invocation, [231]
Ionic capitals, [142]
Irises, [253]
Isaac, [74], [202]
Isaiah, [208]
Ishmaelites, [127]
Israel, [46], [189]
Israelites, [54], [223], [224], [235]
Issachar, [224]
"Italian, the," [229], [237], [238]
Itineraries, [95]

Jabbok, [108], [116], [123], [124], [125], [126], [127], [128], [146], [312], [334]
Jachin, [239]
Jackals, [11], [32], [151], [255]
Jacob, [124], [125], [185], [192]
Jael, [245]
Jaffa, [45], [202], [270]
Jahwe, [233]
Jalûd, [310], [325]
Jar, [85], [240], [271]
Jaulân, [85], [104]
Jeba, [217]
Jebel es-Shech, [306], [334]
Jebel Osha, [152], [173], [334]
Jehonadab, [204]
Jehu, [204], [216]
Jenin, [203], [217], [224], [226], [227]
Jerash, [105], [106], [118], [139], [145], [148], [210], [216], [301]
Jerboa, [34], [331]
Jeremiah, [47], [189]
Jericho of crusading times, [14]
Jericho, [8], [11], [13], [19], [20], [50], [127], [164], [175], [312], [344]
— plain of, [12], [21]
— road to, [5], [6]
— Roman, [13], [14]
Jericho-roses, [35] (anastatica)
Jeroboam, [185], [188]
Jerome, St, [189], [208], [235], [276], [304]
Jerusalem, [5], [11], [45], [102], [122], [175], [183], [194], [197], [303], [304]
Jessamine, [252]
Jezebel, [215], [216]
Jezreel, [227], [310]
Jifna, [185], [186], [192]
Jisr el Mujamia, [307]
Job or Joab, [123]
Jochanan, Bishop, [317]
John the Baptist, [171], [202], [208], [216]
Jonah, [270]
Jonquils, [245], [253]
Jordan, [11], [13], [31], [32], [45], [56], [124], [126], [127], [145], [165], [167], [171], [220], [307], [308], [325], [329]
— East, [90], [103], [120], [128], [257], [294], [312]
— valley, [9], [21], [32], [35], [36], [265]
Joseph, St, [264]
Joseph, [192], [219]
Josephus, [36], [207], [274], [285], [290], [303], [315]
Joshua, [54], [188], [199], [314]
Josiah, [235]
Jotham, [223]
Judah, [235]
Judæa, [11], [12], [163], [328]
Jujube-tree [21], [23], [37], [164] (zizyphus lotus)
— zizyphus spina Christi, [21]
Julia Livia, [343]
Juniper, [253]
Justinian, [86], [195], [202]

Kafr Sabt, [279]
Kaimmakâm, [155]
Kamnimotsk or Kakupschi, [103]
Karâwa, [340]
Karn Hattîn, [279]
Karn Sartabeh, [340]
Keats, [64]
Keble, [286]
Kedron, valley of, [8], [123]
Keffeeye, [4]
Kefr Kennâ, spring of, [270]
Kerak, [53], [56], [169]
Kerosene, [196], [197]
Khalil, [30]
Khan, [160], [180], [190], [224], [225], [278], [287], [300], [311]
Khan of the Good Samaritan, [6], [9]
Khans, Saracenic, [68]
Kings, Three, [292], [294]
Kingfisher, [332]
Kinnerôt, [280]
Kinnor (a lute), [280]
Kirbet el-Herri, [68]
Kishon, [235], [244], [245], [259]
Klein, [71]
Knights of St John, [181], [211]
Kôkab el-Hawa, [310]
Koziba, [16]
Kubâtîyeh, [220], [222]
Kumbaz, [166], [172]

Lady, the, [2]
Lagos, Ptolemy, [206]
Lake of Galilee, [167], [284], [286], [289]
Lagrange, Père, [62]
"Land and the Book," [82]
Language, [25], [51]
Lanner-falcon, [99]
Lapis-lazuli, [212]
Larks, [99], [227], [331]
Latin Patriarch, [51]
Latins, [12], [52], [53], [199], [249], [260]
Law, [196], [198]
Lazarus, Castle of, [8]
Lebanon, [255]
Leeches, [8]
Lehaf, [137], [312]
Lejjun or Legio, [235], [236], [237], [242]
Lemons, [3], [17], [252]
Lepers, [195], [206], [226]
Levi, [200]
Libations, [240]
Lightfoot, [274]
Limestone, [10], [42], [43], [203], [253], [298]
Linen, [329]
Lintel, [56], [189]
Lions, [32]
Lizard, [43], [93], [98], [278], [331]
Looms, [196]
Lot, Shech, [10]
Louis, St, [255], [271]
Lower Egypt, [58]
Lubban, [190], [192]
Lupin, [254]
Lusignan, King Guy de, [279]
Lychnis, [254]

Maccabees, [266]
Machærus, [216]
Madaba, [32], [38], [46], [49], [50], [51], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [60], [62], [95], [102], [138], [139], [148], [287], [291]
Magdala, [285], [286], [301]
Magnesium, [9]
Maiden-hair, [253], [260]
Maimonides, [304]
Maize, [278]
"Majnoon," [162]
Makhrûd, [334]
Maktoub, [37]
Mâlih, [334]
Manasseh, [198], [232], [235]
Mandrakes, [203], [253]
Manuscripts, [200]
Map, mosaic, of Madaba, [57], [58], [59], [60], [62], [63]
Marble, [56], [95], [264], [298]
Mares, [25], [27], [291]
Margaret of Provence, [271]
Margaret, St, [255]
Mariamne, [216]
Marl, [21]
Marriage, [13], [52]
Martyrs, [189], [190]
Masada, [36]
Mastaba, [146]
Maundeville, Sir John, [178], [247], [258], [277]
Maundrell, Henry, [194]
Mausoleum, [158]
Mezeba, [239]
Meadow of Sinking In (Merj-el-Gharak), [218]
Measurement (by time), [31]
Mecca, [72], [74], [75], [172]
Medal, [196]
Mediterranean, [32], [202], [204], [280]
Megiddo, [227], [232], [235], [236], [259]
Meidân, [76]
Mejdel, [286]
Melissa officinalis, [128]
Mémoire, by Mons. Clermont-Ganneau, [59]
Menhirs, [239]
Merj-el-Gharak, [218]
Mesha, [54]
Meshalcha, Bedu, [312], [325]
Michaud, [265], [271]
Midianites, [125], [219]
Milestones, [45]
Mill, [71], [124], [148], [235], [297]
Minaret, [226], [246], [281]
Minyeh, Khan, [287], [300]
Mishna, [304]
Missionaries, [186], [249], [289]
Missions, Scottish and American, [303]
— medical, [249], [263], [287]
— Jerusalem and the East, [249]
Moab, [11], [22], [43], [47], [116], [117], [126], [128], [173], [202], [208]
Moabite sparrow, [34]
Moabite stone, [68], [71]
Moabites, [54]
Monastery, [15], [16], [85], [256]
Monks, Greek, [16], [59]
Monogamy, [56]
Monograph, by Père Séjourné, [53]
— by Schumacher, [55], [140]
— by Père Lagrange and Père Cléopas
Mongols, [158]
Monolith, [189], [214]
Monument, burial, [46], [72], [130]
"Le Mont Thabor: Notices Historiques et Descriptives," [273]
Morality, [56]
Moravians, German, [195]
Mosaics, [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [62], [64], [271], [275]
Moses, [42], [44], [46], [199], [222]
Mosque, [70], [110], [172], [189], [195], [207], [210], [255]
Mshatta, or Mashita, or Meshita, [71], [79], [80], [84], [93], [98], [128]
Mount Ebal, [191], [192], [194], [201]
Mount Gerizim, [191], [192], [194], [202]
— Gilboa, [228], [237]
— of Moab, [202]
— Nebo, [42], [44], [45]
— of Olives, [8], [164]
— of Precipitation, [269]
— Scopas, [179]
Mountain of the Shech, [306]
Mountains of Es-Salt, [157]
— Quarantana, [15]
Mourner, [121]
Muchtar, [106], [111]
Mudir, [131], [132], [133], [134], [135], [136], [139], [310], [311], [313], [323], [324]
Mulberry fig, [14]
Mulberry-trees, [222]
Mujedda, [236]
Mukaris, [3]
Muquṭṭa, [235]
Muscari, [35]
Museum, [257]
Music, [96], [295]
Mutesarrif, [135]
Mykenæan pottery, [234]
Myrrh, [127]
Myrtle, [253]

Naaman, [204]
Nabateans, [54]
Nablûs, [179], [183], [190], [191], [193], [194], [195], [197], [199], [202], [217], [219], [312]
Nahallal, [272]
Nain, [228], [269]
Napoleon, [256]
Narghile, [30]
Nathaniel, [272]
Nawa, [106]
Naumachia, [143]
Nazareth, [228], [258], [260], [261], [262], [266]
Nebk, [21]
Nebo, Mount, [42], [44], [45]
Negro, [20], [171], [338], [339]
Nets, [289]
Nightingale, [34]
Nile, [84], [125], [246]
Nimr, [96], [118]
Notitia, Roman, [69], [95]
Notre Dame d'Amerique, [260]
Nysa, [315]

Oaks, [11], [105], [120], [149], [150], [157], [204], [222], [223], [253], [259]
Obadiah, [208]
Odeum, [109]
Officials, [24], [248]
Oleander, [23], [35], [123], [126], [286], [306], [332]
Oliphant, Hans, [248]
Oliphant, Laurence, [244]
Olives, [148], [187], [204]
Olives, Mount of, [8]
Omar, [312]
Omri, [54], [206]
Orabs, [17]
Orange, [19], [20], [127], [252]
Orchis, [253]
Origen, [276]
Ornithogalums, [332]
Orphanage of Dames de Nazareth, [262]
— English, [263]
— Salesian Fathers, [260]
Oshr, [36]
Oxen, [25], [104]

Palace, [86], [87], [88], [142], [215]
Palace of Herod, [14], [207], [282]
Palestine, [58], [63], [219]
— Eastern, [126], [129]
— Exploration Fund, [62], [71], [87]
Palmer, Paul, [62]
Palms, [11], [13], [127], [181], [224], [226], [246], [252], [281], [284], [306]
Panther, [255]
Pariah dog, [25]
Partridge, [33]
— (Hey's) ammoperdix heyi, [33]
— (Greek) caccabis saxatilis, [33]
Pasha, the, [95]
— of Acre, [217], [256]
— of Damascus, [156]
Passover, The, [198], [200]
Patriarch, Gerasimos, [60]
— Greek, [57], [59], [60], [61], [62]
— Latin, [51], [155]
Patriarchate in Jerusalem, [193], [195]
Paul, St, [268]
Paula, [271], [276]
Peacock, Thomas Love, [112]
Pears, [204]
Pella, [306], [312], [326]
Pentateuch, [199]
Peræa, [7], [125], [126]
Periwinkle, [35], [253]
Père Cléopas, [58], [60], [61], [62]
Père Germer Durand, [62]
Père Séjourné, [53], [55], [57]
Père Vincent, [61]
Persian art, [81]
Persian Gulf, [76]
— king, [83]
Personage, the Royal, [2], [40]
Peter, St, [276]
Phasælis, [342], [343]
Philadelphia, [116]
Phinehas, [198]
Phœnicians, [246]
Piasters, [31], [50], [52], [157], [337]
Piedmontese, [51]
Pigeons, [33]
— rock, [18]
Pilasters, [87], [95]
Pilgrims, [13], [14], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [256], [263], [298]
Pillar, [120], [239]
Pines, [11], [105], [150]
Pipes, native, [5], [40]
Pistachios, [171]
Plague, [75]
Plain of Esdraelon or Jezreel, [227], [228]
— of Sharon, [228]
— of Gennesaret, [285]
— of El-Makhna, [191]
Plateau, [64], [126]
— of Ard 'Abdallah, [46]
— of Ard el Hammâ, [280]
Plough, [45], [119], [191], [221], [227]
Plovers, [227]
Poem, [66]
Poet, [96], [118]
Polygamy, [56]
Pomegranate, [253]
Pompey, [207], [315]
Pool, [14], [55], [205]
Poor Clares, [260]
Poplars, [223], [332]
Population, [23], [107], [155], [195], [249]
Potteries, [297]
Pottery, [234]
Presbytery, [51], [53], [148], [272]
Pride of India, [311]
Priest, high, [200]
— Byzantine, [63]
— Greek, [58], [180]
— parish, [51], [55], [56], [155], [157]
Priests, [51], [52]
"Primitive Semitic Religion To-Day," [223]
Professor, the, [2]
Prophet, the, [74], [125], [189]
Prophets, Jewish, [190], [256]
Propylæa, [141], [142]
Proscenium, [142]
Psalms, [116], [117]
Pseudo-platanus, [14]
Ptolomais, [247]
Ptolemy Lagos, [207]
Ptolemy Philadelphus, [116]
Pudding-stone, [42]

Quakers, [186]
Quarantana mountain, [15]
Quarantine, [2], [31], [160], [165], [169]
Quercus ægilops, [149]

Rab Jochanan Ben Sakai, [304]
Rabbath Ammân, [116]
Rabbi Akiba, [304]
— Meîr, [304]
Rags, [220], [228]
Rahab, [15]
Rahwân, [5], [27]
Railway, [72], [73], [88], [99], [108], [211], [229], [236], [246], [249], [307], [308]
Raisins, [29], [156], [158]
Rakkath, [282]
Ramah, [179]
Ramleh, [104], [189]
Ranunculus, [254]
Rat, [125]
Ravens, [17], [331]
Raven, wedge-tailed (corvus affinis), [33]
Rebecca, [185]
Rechab, [205]
Recueil d'Archéologie Orientale, [59]
Red Sea, [76]
Reservoirs, [55], [69], [185], [316]
"Rischân" or "Rischi," [292]
Road, [44], [67], [74], [83], [95], [118], [141], [183], [186]
Robinson, [235]
Rocks, [42], [43], [253]
Rock garden, [252]
— rose, [253]
— pigeons, [18]
Rolls of the Law, [196]
Roman Catholics, [12], [196]
— colonies, [83], [99]
— Arabia, [69]
— forts, [68], [83], [94]
— forum, [110]
— marches, [85]
— Notitia, [69]
— province, [86]
— remains, [70], [119], [235], [297], [308], [316]
— road, [44], [67], [83], [95], [118], [125], [141], [144]
— soldiers, [47]
— tiles, [87]
— toparchies, [186]
Rooks, [191], [227]
Roots, [149]
Rosaries, [157]
Rose bushes, [225], [288]
Roses, Jericho-(anastatica), [36]
Rotunda, [141], [142]
Ruins, [53], [54], [67], [68], [71], [106], [108], [109], [140], [141], [148], [181], [186], [207], [247], [273], [275], [278], [297], [298], [338], [340]

Sa'b-el-Meshak, [6]
Sacrifice, [91], [250], [319]
Sadowi, [27], [28], [161], [162], [182], [258], [325], [335], [342], [343]
Sæwulf, [302]
Safsaf, [22]
Saint, [221], [223], [318]
Saint Chariton, [15]
— Moslem, [120], [189]
— Old Testament, [220]
Saladdin, [158]
Salesians, [260], [262]
Salisbury, Bishop of (1192), [265]
Sallah ed-din, [279], [287], [310], [315]
Salome, [343]
Salt, [10], [14], [21]
Saltana, [156]
Samaria, [191], [203], [204], [206], [219], [228], [328]
Samaritan, Good, Khan of, [6], [9], [176], [345]
Samuel, [188]
Samovar, [136], [139]
Samaritans, [198], [199], [201], [226]
Sanatorium, [248]
Sand-grouse, [33]
Sand-stone, [42], [344]
Sanhedrin, [304]
Sandwort, [43]
Sanīye, [135]
Sânûr, [217]
Sâra, [158]
Saracens, [85]
Saracenic khans, [68]
Sarcophagi, [71], [101], [110], [119], [216], [270], [308]
Sargon, [315]
— bas-reliefs, [84]
Sassanian dynasty, [84]
Saul, [266], [314]
Saxicola libanotica, [331]
Scarabs, [234]
Schools, [195], [196], [226], [262], [263], [305]
Schumacher, [55], [56], [72], [90], [96], [100], [104], [135], [140], [249], [257], [312]
Scopas, Mount, [179]
Scrolls of the Law, [198]
Sculpture, [70], [71], [81], [142], [189], [211], [214], [316]
Scythopolis, [315]
Sea-birds, [246]
Sea, Dead, [9], [10], [17], [32]
Seal, [196], [234], [240]
Sebaste, [203], [205], [207], [210], [211], [213], [215]
Sect, esoteric, [16]
Sedge-grass, [331]
Seetzen, [111]
Séjourné, Père, [53], [55], [57]
Selim Effendi Khuri, [252]
Sellin, Doctor, [233]
Semûniyeh, [259]
Sepulchre, Holy, [195]
Serai, [224], [313], [318], [327], [337], [338]
Sesame, [278]
Settlements, Greek, [12]
— Russian, [12]
— Samaritan, [196], [197]
Seyal, [22]
Sharon, [104], [228], [255]
Shech, [51], [56], [71], [74], [120], [209], [211], [291], [300], [319], [330]
Shech Abdallah, [46]
Shech Goblan, [118]
Shech Lot, [10]
Shech Shadli, [313]
Shech Muhammed, [100]
Shechem, [194], [219]
Shelley, [93]
Shiloh, [188], [189], [194]
Shiraz, [84]
Shireen, [84]
Shop, curiosity, [9]
Shrine, [223]
Shunem, [269]
Sidr, [21]
Silenæ, [35]
Simon Stock, St, [257]
Singing, [96], [97], [99], [166]
Sisera, [245]
Sisters of Charity, [263]
— of St Joseph, [263]
— of the Rosary, [155]
Skylarks, [227]
Smith, Prof. G. A., [72], [202], [204], [235]
Smyrna, [63]
Snails, land-, [99]
Soap, [195]
Soapwort, [43]
Sodom, apple of, [36]
Sœurs de Charité, [195]
Solanum sanctum, [36]
Soldiers, Circassian, [90], [135]
— Egyptian, [12]
— Jewish, [285]
— Roman, [47]
Solomon, [188], [235], [239]
Sparrows, [11], [34], [227]
Sportsmen, [2]
Spring, [158], [181], [185], [190], [205], [270], [279]
Springs, hot, [45], [297], [308]
Squills, [35], [253]
Stallions, [6], [24]
Star of Bethlehem, [253]
Starlings, [11], [227]
Statues, [142]
Stocks, [254], [332]
Stones, [220], [318]
Stone of Abraham, [177]
Stone circle, [45], [46], [185]
Stone, Moabite, [54], [68], [71]
Storks, [332]
Sugar-cane, [329]
Suggestion, hypnotic, [221]
"Sultana," [156]
Sultan's Spring, [14], [15]
Sumach, [156]
Sun-bird, cinnyris oseæ, [34], [254]
Superstitions, [66], [77], [298]
Swallows, [17], [93], [125], [316]
Sycaminium, [247]
Sycomore, [14]
Synagogue, [200], [298], [303]
Syrians, [206]
Syria, [14], [30], [80], [105], [125], [246], [250]
Szaltese, [156]

Taanak, [227], [229], [232], [233], [235], [236]
Tabor, [224], [229], [237], [266], [274], [277]
Talmud, [304], [340]
Tamarisk, [23], [34], [253], [332]
Tank, [69], [70]
Tanneries, [297]
Tarafah, [66]
Tarbush, [24], [293], [318]
Taricheæ, [286] (see Magdala)
Tax, road, [45]
— war, [50]
— Tel'at ed-Dam, [9]
Taxes, general, [106], [135]
— horse, [49]
Tell, [203], [214], [229], [232], [301], [316], [341]
— Hûm, [297]
— el Matâba, [45]
— el-Mutesellim, [235], [236], [237], [238]
Templars, [195], [259], [279]
Temple, [68], [129], [141], [142], [185], [199], [202], [207], [209], [239], [314]
Temptation, [15]
Terebinth, [150], [157], [219], [223]
Teskerys (local passports), [165], [193]
Tetanus, [9]
Tetrapylon, [141], [142]
Tfaddalu, [111]
Theatre, [109], [129], [141], [142], [143], [207], [209], [235]
Thermæ, [106], [110]
Thieves, [5]
Thistles, [23]
Thompson, [82]
Thorns, [21], [23], [150]
Thothmes III., [314]
Three Kings, the, [292], [294]
Tiberias, [13], [259], [277], [280], [281], [282], [283], [284], [323]
Tiglath-pileser, [315]
Tithes, [200]
Tobacco, [5], [30], [40], [41], [55], [157], [294], [338]
Tomb of 'Abdallah, [46]
— of Abdel Azziz en-Nimr Shech Adwân, [118], [119]
— of Abu Obeidah Ibn el Jerrâh, [312]
— of Jonah, [270]
— of Joseph, [192]
Tombs, [110], [119], [158], [187], [192], [239], [285], [304], [317], [318]
Tombak, [30]
Tortilis, [22]
Tortoises, [278]
Town of Nablûs (see Nablûs)
— of ancient Jericho, [15]
Towns in ruins, [67], [68], [106], [141], [301]
Traditions, [298]
Tradition, re church at el Bireh, [181]
— re Elijah's Fountain, [14]
— re the horse of Solomon, [299]
— re St John Baptist, [208]
— re ten lepers, [226]
— re the Miracle of turning Water into Wine, [270]
— re Nathaniel, [272]
— re Sermon on the Mount, [279]
— re workshop of St Joseph, [264]
Trajan, [129]
Transfiguration, the, [273], [275]
Tree (sacred), [190], [220], [221], [222], [223], [227]
Trees, [21], [22], [23], [149], [150], [204], [253], [259], [306], [311]
Tristram, [17], [36], [42], [67], [70], [71], [79], [80], [94], [289], [344]
Troughs, stone, [119]
Turtur risorius, [33]
Turban, [293]
Turcomans, [24], [146]
Turtle-dove, Indian, [33] (turtur risorius)

Um el-Kuseir, [67], [68]
Um er-Resâs, [68]
Um Weleed, [67], [68]
Umshita, [79]
University, [303]

Valerian, [254]
Valley, Dead Sea, [43]
— Jezreel, [310]
— Jordan, [9], [36]
— Kedron, [8]
— of the Lubban, [190]
— of Sa'b-el-Meshak, [6]
Vegetation, tropical, [11], [306]
Vespasian, [329]
Village of Abu-dis, [5]
— of Ammân (see Ammân)
— of Bir es Zet, [185]
— of Et-tayyibeh, [187]
— of Gath-Hepher, [270]
— of Jenin, [203], [217], [224], [227]
— of Jerash, [130], [131]
— of Jifna, [185], [186]
— of Kafr Sabt, [279]
— of Kubâtîyeh, [220], [222]
— of Madaba, [53]
— of Mastaba, [146]
— of Er-Rummâna, [146]
— of Sebaste, [213]
— of Seilun, [188]
— of Yâfâ, [260]
Villages of Bedu, [67]
— of Circassians, [106]
Vincent, Père, [61]
Vineyard, [252]
Vogüe, M. de, [211]
Vulture, [99], [331], [341]

Wadi Salihi, [147]
Wady, [122], [334]
— el Abyad, [341]
— Faria, [334], [335], [339]
— Fesail, [341]
— el-Hamman, [119]
— Heshban, [36], [47]
— el-Hor, [149]
— Kelt, [15]
— Mâlih, [334]
— el-Mastaba, [146]
— Osha, [157]
— er-Rumemin, [148]
— er-Rumman, [122]
— Shaib, [159] (see also [160])
— Umm Rabi, [146]
Wages, [23]
Warren, Sir Charles, [71]
Water, [14], [16], [55], [74], [108], [122], [126], [144], [168], [194]
— of Dead Sea, [9]
— Roman system, [14], [69]
— bottles, [44]
Waterfall, [147], [297], [332]
Water-pipe, [30], [112], [114], [330]
Watka, [118], [119]
Weapons, [25], [55]
Wedge-tailed raven (corvus affinis), [33]
Well of Jacob, [192], [202]
Well of Nazareth, [265]
— of Tiberias, [285]
Welys, [120], [121], [152], [160], [202], [221], [317], [318]
Willibald, [271], [276]
Willow, [22], [332] (safsaf)
Wine, [252], [271], [272], [294], [311]
Wolf, [33]
Women, [205]
Wool, [195]
Wordsworth, [20], [116], [323]
Wormwood, [99] (artemesium)
Wren, long-tailed, [254] (drymæca gracilis)

Yafa, [260]
Yakubi, [141]
Yakut, [140]
Yarmuk, [126], [127], [307]
Yemen, [85]
Yujûz, [119]

Zadam, [71]
Zakkum, [23]
Zebedee, [260]
Zebîb, [68]
Ziza, [69], [71]
Zizyphus lotus, [21], [23], [164]
Zizyphus spina Christi, [21]

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