Category: Biographies
Damascus--Ramazán--Visit to the Jews--House of the Hayms, brothers of him of Acre--Visit to the Pasha--Compliment of Hadj Mohammed to Lady Hester--Curiosity of the women to see her Ladyship--Their dress--Inefficacy of personal restraints upon women--Fanaticism of the inhabitan...
Damascus--Ramazán--Visit to the Jews--House of the Hayms, brothers of him of Acre--Visit to the Pasha--Compliment of Hadj Mohammed to Lady Hester--Curiosity of the women to see...
2. CHAPTER II.Lady Hester’s intended journey to Palmyra--Objections to it--Hanah Fakhah--Difficulties of a journey to Palmyra--Illness of Mr. B. on his road from Aleppo to Damascus--The Autho...
3. CHAPTER III.Precautions against riots--Emir Nasar visits Lady Hester--He dissuades her from going to Palmyra with an escort--Description of Nasar--How entertained--Lady Hester quits Damascu...
4. CHAPTER IV.The author enters the Desert--Hostile tribes of Bedouins--Beni Khaled Arabs--Their tents, manners, &c.--Arabian hospitality--Tels or Conical mounds--Aspect of the Desert--Want o...
5. CHAPTER V.Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra--Wood and Dawkins’s plates--Fountain of Ephca--Castle--Tombs--Cottage selected for Lady Hester--Visit to a curious cave--Justinian’s wall--Cl...
6. CHAPTER VI.Hamah--Inclemency of the weather--Preparations made by Lady Hester for her journey to Palmyra--Conical cisterns--Nazyf Pasha--Abdallah Pasha--Muly Ismael--The governor of Hamah-...
7. CHAPTER VII.Departure from Palmyra--Suspicions of Nasar--Encampment in a beautiful valley--Tribe of the Sebáh and their Shaykh Mnyf--Assembly of Bedouins at Lady Hester Stanhope’s tent--The...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Departure from Hamah--Encampment on the bank of the Orontes--Transformation of aquatic to winged animals--Vale of the Orontes--Calât el Medyk--Bridge and village of Shogre--Topa...
9. CHAPTER IX.Residence at Latakia--Remains of Antiquity--Port--Gardens--Sycamore--Birdlime tree--Vegetables and fruit--Tobacco--Salt tanks--Sponge fishery--Hanah Kûby--Fanaticism of the Turk...
10. CHAPTER X.Mode of Life of Lady Hester Stanhope--Imaginary treasures of Gezzàr Pasha--Road to the Convent of Mar Elias--Description of the Convent--Village of Abra--Interior of a cottage--...
11. CHAPTER XI.Plague at Abra--Terror occasioned by it--Peasants forsake the village--Alarm of Lady Hester--Imaginary virtues of bezoar and serpent stone--Funerals--Embarrassment of the Author...
12. CHAPTER I.Damascus--Ramazán--Visit to the Jews--House of the Hayms, brothers of him of Acre--Visit to the Pasha--Compliment of Hadj Mohammed to Lady Hester--Curiosity of the women to see...
13. CHAPTER II.Lady Hester’s intended journey to Palmyra--Objections to it--Hanah Fakhah--Difficulties of a journey to Palmyra--Illness of Mr. B. on his road from Aleppo to Damascus--The Autho...
14. letter I wrote him from Dayr el Kamar. Hope will tell you howI got on upon the coast, and if he could make anything of the Pasha of Acre, his ministers, or the rest of them, who were all at my feet. I was even admitted into the library of...
15. CHAPTER III.Precautions against riots--Emir Nasar visits Lady Hester--He dissuades her from going to Palmyra with an escort--Description of Nasar--How entertained--Lady Hester quits Damascu...
16. CHAPTER IV.The author enters the Desert--Hostile tribes of Bedouins--Beni Khaled Arabs--Their tents, manners, &c.--Arabian hospitality--Tels or Conical mounds--Aspect of the Desert--Want o...
17. CHAPTER V.Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra--Wood and Dawkins’s plates--Fountain of Ephca--Castle--Tombs--Cottage selected for Lady Hester--Visit to a curious cave--Justinian’s wall--Cl...
18. CHAPTER VI.Hamah--Inclemency of the weather--Preparations made by Lady Hester for her journey to Palmyra--Conical cisterns--Nazýf Pasha--Abdallah Pasha--Muly Ismael--The governor of Hamah-...
19. CHAPTER VII.Departure from Palmyra--Suspicions of Nasar--Encampment in a beautiful valley--Tribe of the Sebáh and their Shaykh Mnyf--Assembly of Bedouins at Lady Hester Stanhope’s tent--The...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Departure from Hamah--Encampment on the bank of the Orontes--Transformation of aquatic to winged animals--Vale of the Orontes--Calât el Medýk--Bridge and village of Shogre--Topa...
21. CHAPTER IX.Residence at Latakia--Remains of Antiquity--Port--Gardens--Sycamore--Birdlime tree--Vegetables and fruit--Tobacco--Salt tanks--Sponge fishery--Hanah Kûby--Fanaticism of the Turk...
22. ill. The prevailing maladies were bilious remittent, terminating inMadame Lascaris, shut up in Damascus, in the midst of a raging plague, lost her young companion. The Greek patriarch, a worthy prelate, known to almost all English travellers in...
23. CHAPTER X.Mode of Life of Lady Hester Stanhope--Imaginary treasures of Gezzàr Pasha--Road to the Convent of Mar Elias--Description of the Convent--Village of Abra--Interior of a cottage--...
24. CHAPTER XI.Plague at Abra--Terror occasioned by it--Peasants forsake the village--Alarm of Lady Hester--Imaginary virtues of bezoar and serpent stone--Funerals--Embarrassment of the Author...