"Listen, oh lady," said Mikhāil, "and I will make it clear to you. Men are short of vision, and they see but that for which they look. Some look for evil and they find evil; some look for good and it is good that they find, and moreover some are fortunate and these find always what they want. Praise be to God! to that number you belong. And, please God! you shall journey in peace and return in safety to your own land, and there you shall meet his Excellency your father, and your mother and all your brothers and sisters in health and in happiness, and all your relations and friends," added Mikhāil comprehensively, "and again many times shall you travel in Syria with peace and safety and prosperity, please God!"

"Please God!" said I.

[INDEX]

ABĀDEH tribe, the, [23]
Abana River, the, [152]
'Abdul 'Aziz ibn er Rashīd, [146]
Ḥamed Pasha Druby, [189],
[194]
Hamid Rafi 'a Zādeh, [201],
[339]
Ḳādir, the great Algerian,
[145]
Ḳādir el Aẓam, [224],
[237]
Mejīd, Kurdish zaptieh, [210]
Wahhāb Beg, [182]
'Abdullah Pasha, the Amīr, [145]
'Abd ur Raḥmān Pasha, [239]
Abraham, George, [335]
Abrash River, the, [210]
Abu Kbesh, castle of, [218]
Zreik, village of, [101]
'l Fīda, sarcophagus of, [230]
Acropolis, Athens, [167]; Antioch,
[322], [324]
Adana, [271]
Aden, [265]
'Adwān tribes, [16]
Afrīn, valley of the, [288]
Agha, Muḥammad 'Ali, [311]
Reshīd, [339]
Rifa't, collection of, [322], [325]
Rustum, [311]
Aḥmed, son of Ghishghāsh, [111], [128]
'Ain esh Shems, [7], [217]
'Aintāb, missionary schools at, [334]
Ajlūn hills of, [16]
'Akabah, Gulf of, [14]
Al Ḥerdeh, village of, [233]
'Ala, Jebel el, [276], [302],
[305], [309], [310]
Alāni, [314]
Aleppo, [66], [222]n., [232],
[244], [250], [251],
[256], [270],
[311], [314];
description, [260]
Alexander the Great, [242], [336]
Alexandretta, [262], [265],
[270], [324], [336]
Alexandria, [240]
Ali id Diāb ul 'Adwān, Sultān ibn, [16]
Muḥammad, Pasha of Aleppo,
[148], [268]
Pasha, Amīr, [145], [149]
Allāt, [95]
'Alya, Jebel el, [51], [64]
Amanus, Mount, [336]
Amereh, mound of, [26]
American College, Beyrout, [208], [230]
Survey, the, [77], [171],
[276], [297]
'Ammān, [13], [20], [27], [56], [164]
'Anazeh tribe, the, [24], [25], [65], [127], [152],
[172], [197]
Anglo-Japanese alliance, [229]
'Antara, poetry of, [59]
Anti-Libanus, [111], [121], [159], [167]
Antioch, [175], [270], [277], [278],
[281], [310];
description and relics, [318], [336]
Apamea, [242], [327]
Apostles' Well, the, see 'Ain esh
Shems
Arabic inscriptions, [122], [242]
Arabs, [14], [16], [23] et seq., [56],
[66]
hospitality, [32], [37], [55];
customs, etc., [36], [42], [49],
[67];
poetry, [60]; inter-tribal relations, [65]
'Areh, village of, [81], [85]
'Arjārmeh, the, [14]
Armenians, [140]; the Armenian question, [328]
Asad Beg, [171]
Asbā 'i, Muṣṭafa el, [148]
'Asī, swamp of the, [242]
Assassins, sect of the, [196]
At Tabari, history of, [80]
Athens, 297; the Acropolis, [167]
Awād, the Arab, [121], [127]
'Awais, Yūsef el, [160]
Aẓam Zādeh family at Ḥamāh, [223]
Azrak, Kala 'at el, [84]

BA'ALBEK, 159-160; Temple of The
Sun, [164]; Temple of Jupiter,
[172], [176], Basilica of Constantine,
[183]; Ras ul 'Ain, [185]; Christian
church at, [214]
Bāb el Hawa, the, [297], [301]
Bābiska, village, [297]
Babylonia, [241]
Baghdad, [66], [111]; the railway to,
[261]
Baghrās, castle of, [336]
Bailān, Pass of, [336]
Baitocaicē, [214]
Bāḳirḥa, ruins of, [278], [298]
Balad, Sheikh el, [58]
Barād, village of, [287]
Barada, the Wādi, [159]
Barāzi family, Ḥamāh, [224]
Barāzi, Muṣṭafa Pasha el, [147], [148], [236]
Bārisha, Jebel, [276], [298], [301], [302]
Bashan, [84]
Basilica of Constantine, Ba'albek, [183]
Bāsufān, church at, [288], [291]
Bathaniyyeh, [131]
Bawābet Ullaḥ, the, Damascus, [133]
Bedouins, [10], [23], [56], [122],
[197], [256]
Bedr, battle of, [62]
Behā'is, religion of the, [150], [193]
Beiḍa, Ḳal'at el, [34], [123]
White Land, [108], [121]
Belḳa plain, [19], [23]; tribes of the,
[23], [56]
Beni 'Atiyyeh, the, [239], [240]
Awājeh tribe, the, [66]
Ḥassan tribe, the, [65], [68],
[96]
Ṣakhr, [24], [33], [38],
[41], [43]
Sha 'alān, the, [25]
Beyrout, [99], [198], [208], [230],
[231], [262]
Birijik, railway at, [261]
Birket Umm el 'Amūd, the, [25]
Bizzos, Tomb of, [253], [277]
Bḳei'a, the plain, [198]
Black Sea, [8]
Stone at Mecca, [96]
Blunts, the travellers, [84]
Boer War, the, [229]
Bologna, [254]
Boṣrā, [20], [74], [81]
el Harīr, [229]
Brāk, village of, [132]
Brünnow, "Die Provincia Arabia,"
[34]n., [52]n.
Būkhālih, [125]
Burj el Kās, [282]
Ḥeida, [292]
Burjkeh, village of, [280]
Busān, the Wādi, [107]
Butler, Mr., [75], [244], [276], [286]

CALCUTTA, [227]
Calycadnus River, the, [241]
Cassius, Mount, [330]
Cave villages, in
Caves, Namrūd's, [31]
Chamberlain, Mr., [105]
Chaulīk, [329]
Circassians, [56], [132], [238]
Coffee, customs, [19]
Coins, Roman, 27; Seleucid, [322]
Constantine, coins of, [27]
Constantinople, [48], [104]
Crete, Moslems of, [152]
Cromer, Lord, [58], [105], [229]
Crown of Thorns, the, [11]
Crusaders, [205]
Cufic inscriptions, [80], [122]
Curzon, Lord, [229]
Cyprus, [229], [328], [335]

DA'JA tribe, the, [24], [40], [51], [96]
Damascus, [77], [99], [128], [198],
[231]
History, [134]; houses of,
[136], [227]; the Great
Mosque, [142], [150], [153]
Friday in, [152]
Dāna, [297]; tomb at, [31], [254], [259],
[298]
Danīdisheh family, [207]
Daphne Road, Antioch, [322]; shrine, [326]
Dār Kīta, [286]
Dark Tower, Ḳal'at el Ḥuṣn, [201]
Dead Sea, 10; Dead Sea Fruit, [11]
Decimus of the Flavian Legion, [214]
Deḥes, [297], [302]
Deir es Sleb, [219]
Deiret 'Azzeh, village of, [97]
Dera'a, cave village, [111]
Derwīsh, soldier, [171], [172]
Dīn, Sheikh ed, [58]
Drekish, village of, [211]
Drusūra, [95]
Druze, the Jebel, [20], [43], [64], [70],
[164]
Druzes, the, [38], [43], [51], [58],
[67], [70]
Habits and customs, [79], [82],
[83], [86], [128];
the fight against
the Ṣukhūr, [88]; dread
of the Mohammadans, [306]
Dussaud, Monsieur, [75], [84], [102],
[122], [125], [175]

EFFENDI, Dervish, [227]
Yūsef, [85], [135]
Effendim, [219]
Egypt, English rule in, [57]
Ej Jeita, village of, in
El, the God, [124]
Ajlāt, [111]
Bahra, lake of, [310]
Bārah, village of, [245], [246],
[249]
Ḥayyāt, mosque of, [230]
Khuḍr, Well of, [94], [96]
Mughāra, village of, [255]
Muwaggar, [52], [126]
Emesa, Roman city, [181], [186]
Epiphaneia, fortress of, [221]
Ethreh, [84]
Euphrates, the, [268]
Euting, M., [84]

FĀFERTĪN, village of, [274], [282]
Fāiz, nephew of Muḥammad en
Nassār, [107], [111], [128],
[339]
el Aṭrash, Sheikh of Kreyeh, [77], [81]
Talal ul, [24], [25]
Fāris, muleteer, [270] et seq., [302], [310]
Ḥabīb, [19], [22], [339]
Fayyād, Agha of Karyatein, [152]
Fedhāmeh, village of, [111]
Fellahīn, the, [56]; social condition,
[206], [217]
Bank, the, [58]
Fendi, guide, [77], [78], [88]
Fīda, Abu 'l, [22]
France, Baghdad railway scheme, [261]