In a Syrian Saddle

by A. Goodrich-Freer

• 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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