Travels In Syria And The Holy Land
I had intended to sleep at Om Ezzeitoun, but I found the Druses very ill-disposed towards me. It was generally reported that I had discovered a treasure in 1810 at Shohba, near this place, and it was supposed that I had now returned to carry off what I had then left behind. I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village. I had with me an old passport from Soleiman Pasha, who,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-161-48317-8
- EAN: 9781161483178
- Produktnummer: 34569262
- Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 518 S.
- Masse: H26.0 cm x B18.3 cm x D3.2 cm 1'161 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1161
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