[We explore Portugal]—[I rejoin him at Rio de Janeiro]—[Arrival at Santos and São Paulo]—[Life in Brazil—Brazilian life]—[Life at Rio]—[The Barra for contrast]—[To the mines in Minas Gerães]—[We go down the big mine]—[Below]—[Chico and I start on a fifteen days' ride alone]—[The landlord of the hotel is mystified]—[Richard dangerously ill]—[Mesmerizing]—[Regatta]—[We leave Brazil—Richard goes south]—[Lord Derby gives Richard Damascus]—[His carbine pistol]—[Pleasant days in Vichy and Auvergne]—[The Fell Railway]—[Geographical disagreeables]—[Work]—[The Nile]—[Still the Nile]—[I sail for Damascus].
[CHAPTER XX.]
DAMASCUS—HIS THIRD CONSULATE.
[I find Richard has had a cordial reception]—[We go to Palmyra, or Tadmor in the desert]—[We go without an escort]—[Tadmor]—[Camp life—Our travelling day—Night camps]—[Return home after desert]—[Native life]—[The Arabic library at Damascus—The library]—[The environs of Damascus]—[How our days were passed]—[Our reception day]—[A most interesting and remarkable woman]—[A romantic history]—[Richard's love for children]—[Richard's notes on our wilder travels]—[The Tulúl el Safá]—[Our home in the Anti-Lebanon]—[Our day]—[With Drake and Palmer in the Lebanon]—[Religious disturbances]—[Holo Pasha gives us a panther]—[The Druzes—Their stronghold]—[We camp at the Waters of Merom]—[Richard is stung by a scorpion]—[Explorations of unknown tracts]—[I prevent Rashíd Pasha's intentions taking effect]—[Rashíd's intrigue about the Druzes]—[The manner in which we are received in villages]—[Remarks on the journey]—[Kurdish dogs]—[Excursions to unknown tracts]—[Troubles from a self-appointed zealot]—[Usurers very troublesome]—[A Jehád threatened]—[Jews]—[Usurers try to remove Richard]—[Letters of indignation and sympathy]—[Jews]—[Omar Bey's fine mare—Horse-breeding]—[The Holy Land].
[CHAPTER XXI.]
RELIGION.
[Shádilis—Sufis becoming Catholics]—[They are tried and condemned]—[And persecuted]—[The Protestant converts]—[The Shádilis]—[Richard quotes Mr. Gladstone]—[Letters approving his conduct]—[Richard's answer and remarks]—[He leaves]—[I take a night ride across country]—[We were stoned at Nazareth]—[General information]—[Salih's description of Richard]—[Letters showing the state of Syria after his recall]—[The interval I remained as a hostage]—[I leave the Anti-Lebanon—Wind up at Damascus]—[I get fever]—[Eventually reach home]—[He gets an amende]—[We become penniless]—[Small jottings]—[Death of my mother]—[Richard accepts Trieste]—[The old story of shooting people, and a newer one]—[The truth]—[Difficulty of English officials doing their duty]—[Conclusion of his Damascus career].