[45]. See Levant Papers, Part III., p. 272.
[46]. Ibid., p. 276.
[47]. “The latter,—by the bye,—being no pass at all, but an open place in the plains to the eastward of Gaza.”
[48]. Although these instructions from Sir Charles Smith were so termed,—and Colonel Napier has documents from his successor, General Michell, to prove that they were satisfactorily executed,—it appears strange that this mission of the Colonel’s should never have been publicly made known.
[49]. “Moïadjumah, literally meaning the ‘meeting of the waters.’”
[50]. “He had lately succeeded Sir Charles Smith.”
[51]. “Mr. Wood, in one of his official reports, gives General Jochmus the credit of this reconnoissance, whereas I am not aware that the latter was, at this period, ever across the Jordan.”
[52]. This title was conferred in consequence of a promise made by the Sultan, through Lord Ponsonby, that Colonel Napier should receive the nishan or order of that rank—which promise has as yet been kept with true “Turkish faith.”
[53]. See Levant Papers, Part III., pp. 203, 268.
[54]. Letter to the Seraskier and Hussein Pacha, dated January 21, 1841. Levant Papers, Part III., pp. 275, 276.