In a Syrian Saddle

by A. Goodrich-Freer

By the clear rill and palmy shade!"

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]