Chapter XI

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

the -ing form of “have”

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

A prediction of what will happen in the future, often divinely or magically inspired.

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

Persons who steal from a person or place, especially using violence or threats.

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

for that reason; as a result

From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

up to a particular time

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading Loss of journals--Difficulties in learning Eastern languages--Signor Damiani; his simplicity--Porters--Residence at the Franciscan convent--Lady Hester’s dress--Not distinguishable from a Turk--Description of Jaffa--Buildings--Environs of Jaffa--Orchards--Mohammed Aga: his revenues: his expenditure--Pilgrims: their sufferings--Object of their pilgrimage--Departure for Jerusalem--Mr. Pearce leaves the party--Peasants reaping--Ramlah--Its monastery--Locusts--Lyd--Departure from Ramlah--Sober exhortation of a drunken priest--Mountains of Judæa--Abu Ghosh--Supper--Guards--Selim’s apprehensions--Cold--Brothers’s prophecy--Jerusalem--Lady Hester’s lodgings--Dragomans--Visit to the governor--Kengi Ahmed--Emir Bey; his history--Holy Sepulchre--Mount Calvary--Visit to the Jews’ quarter--Bethlehem--Monastery--Bethlehemites reputed to be robbers--Horses--Accident to Mr. B.--Mufti’s dinner--Memorable places.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading The foregoing pages may therefore be considered in the light of an introduction to our future course of proceeding, and the peculiar mode of life which Lady Hester will hereafter be seen to lead on Mount Lebanon.

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From this reading The plague at that time was making great ravages in Malta; and these cases, having been landed there to be reshipped on another vessel, were lost; and to this cause it is owing that my narrative, up to the period of our arrival at Jaffa, is for the most part written from letters, scattered notes, and memory, and must, consequently, be liable to numerous errors.

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From this reading It was my misfortune, in the year 1813, to ship from Latakia for England two cases of effects, in which were my memorandums and journals from the time of quitting Rhodes until our landing in Syria.

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From this reading It was now two years and three months since her ladyship had quitted England.