[29] Genesis 23:11.
[30] Proverbs 20:14.
[31] This includes the American, for all who speak the English language are ordinarily classed as Ingleezy.
[32] Some years ago, our minister to Turkey, who had been promised an audience with Abdul Hamid, was made to wait half a day in an anteroom of the palace without being offered coffee. So far as I know, that fact was never published; for the American newspapers seem to have quite missed the significance of the omission, and our representative himself apparently did not realize that he had been publicly insulted. But the experienced diplomat who was then in charge of our Department of State cabled the minister, in case of further affront, to leave Constantinople immediately.
[33] Isaiah 8:4.
[34] According to the most strict Moslem teachers, the commandment of the Prophet (the Koran, sura 5:92, etc.) would prohibit the use of even the carved figures of the chess knights.
[35] The Koran, sura 4:38.
[36] In this effete generation, however, those who have the inclination and the money may take the sacred railway as far as Medina, and for many years the majority of the pilgrims from outside of Syria have traveled by steamer to Jeddah, the seaport of Mecca—under the direction of an English tourist agency!
[37] See further the author’s The Real Palestine of To-day, chapter VII.
[38] Acts 9:11. The ancient name has survived, or possibly has been revived, and the thoroughfare is still called Derb el-Mustakîm or “Straight Street.” Its more common name, however, is Suk et-Tawîleh, the “Long Bazaar.”