The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63 |
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Or , be they European or native , Syrian wayfarers stray rather than ramble from the right direction , like the caravan of three thousand camels , with six hundred men , which perished in 1858 , near Hara Iji Sheham .
Or , be they European or native , Syrian wayfarers stray rather than ramble from the right direction , like the caravan of three thousand camels , with six hundred men , which perished in 1858 , near Hara Iji Sheham .
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The whole province of Syria is intrusted to the safe - keeping of a body of two thousand mounted police , similar to Hájí Batrán and his myrmidons . Their pay is always in arrear , and , as if the temptations to plunder a defenseless ...
The whole province of Syria is intrusted to the safe - keeping of a body of two thousand mounted police , similar to Hájí Batrán and his myrmidons . Their pay is always in arrear , and , as if the temptations to plunder a defenseless ...
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... thousand , still live as in the time of Burckhardt , " they taste flesh only upon extraordinary occasions . " Yet these are professional robbers ; and partly by plundering , partly by legitimate traffic , are in a position of luxury ...
... thousand , still live as in the time of Burckhardt , " they taste flesh only upon extraordinary occasions . " Yet these are professional robbers ; and partly by plundering , partly by legitimate traffic , are in a position of luxury ...
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These places were destroyed by fire , and three thousand six hundred Maronites were slain in them . The same scenes of horror that occurred at Aleppo nine years and a half before , when for three weeks the Christian quarter was given up ...
These places were destroyed by fire , and three thousand six hundred Maronites were slain in them . The same scenes of horror that occurred at Aleppo nine years and a half before , when for three weeks the Christian quarter was given up ...
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But Russia has an efficient fleet of merchant steamers in the Black Sea , and before defensive measures could be adopted , might land thirty thousand men in the neighborhood of Constantinople , where they would find thousands of Greeks ...
But Russia has an efficient fleet of merchant steamers in the Black Sea , and before defensive measures could be adopted , might land thirty thousand men in the neighborhood of Constantinople , where they would find thousands of Greeks ...
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Página 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...