Hamath, entrance of, 354, 362.
Hamathites, 243.
Hands, washing of, 183.
Harbors, Phoenician, want of, 143.
Hart, 251.
Harvest among thorns, 537.
Hasbany, River, Upper Jordan, 319.
Hawk, migration of, scr. all. to, 506.
Hazor, city destroyed by Joshua, 322;
site of, 439-440.
Heber the Kenite, 419.
Hermon seen from Sarepta, 232; view
of, from plain of Tyre, 260.
Hero-worship, 508-509.
Jackals, wailing of, 133-134.
Jebaah, vill., 211.
Jebel Canaan, 425.
Jebel Jermuk or Zebûd, 424.
Jebel Rihan, southern termination of
Lebanon, 292.
Jebile, plain of, 245.
Jebusites, location of, 240.
Jefat, Jotapata, 512.
Jerjua, vill., 211; Greek statue and in-
scription at, 212.
Jermuk, valley and vill., 205.
Jeth, vill. and ancient site, 463.
Jewels, Oriental, 171, 185–186.
Jews of Safed, superstitions of, 426;
Jewesses do not wear the veil, 34.
Jezzar Pasha, destroys Tibnîn, Hunîn,
etc., 312.
Jezzin, vill. and cataract of, cave of
Fukhr ed Dîn beneath, 120-121.
Hibbariyeh, temple at, Greek inscrip- Jish, Giscala, destroyed by earthquake,
tion, 350.
Hidden treasure at Sidon, 194-198; at Jisr Benat Yacobe described, 402.
Safed, 419; existence of, accounted Jisr Burghús, 255.
for, 197; infatuation of seekers for, Jisr K'ak'aiyeh, 315.
Hoopoe, Hedhood, 105.
Horned ladies, Tantour, 101.
Horns, scr. all. to, 102.
House on the city wall, 139; windows of,
139; summer and winter houses, 478.
Household furniture, 180-183; suitable
to the character of Oriental life, 182.
House-top, proclamation from, 51; scr.
all. to, 51-52.
Hul, land of, 386.
Hula, wady and vill., 315.
Jisr Khurdileh, 205.
Jisr Kuraone, 254.
Jisr el Owely, built by Fukhr ed Dîn,
Jiyeh, Porphyreon, 94.
Job, country of, 386.
Jonah, shrine of, 94; whale of, dis-
cussed, 95; gourd of, 97; preaching
at Nineveh, effects of, 100; fleeing to
Tarshish, 98-99.
Joppa, Jaffa, mentioned in the inscrip-
tion of Ashmunazar, 201.
Jordan, Upper, source and tributaries
of, 319; junction of the tributaries at
Tell Sheikh Yusef, 320, 388; typical
character of the Jordan, 382-383.
Joshua, battle of, at Merom, 322.
Jubb Jenin, vill. and bridge of, 254.
June, plain of, 246.
June, vill. of Lady H. Stanhope, 115.
Hûleh, marsh and plain, 319; battle- Kabery, vill. and aqueduct from, de-
ground of Abraham, 321; ditto of
Joshua, 322; ditto of the Danites, Kadesh Naphtali, city of refuge, 404–
323; ditto of Joab against Sheba, 329;
beauty of the plain of, 338.
Hûleh, lake of, 398-401; wild fowls on,
405; ancient ruins at, 412.
Kadisha, river and gorge, 292.
Kadmonites, location of, 242.
Kafür, wady, 205.
Kamua Hermel, monument of, 362-366.
Kanah of Asher, ancient figures in rocks
at, 298.
Kasimieh, Litany River, bridge and
khan of, 253; source, course, and
scenery of, 254-259.
Kedes, ancient city on the Orontes, 159.
Kefr Buri'am, Jewish ruins at, 436.
Kefr Milky, vill., 211.
Kefr Yusif, vill., 463.
Khaifa and Haifa, city, 492.
Khan Jisr el Owely, scene at, 122-124.
Khan Mohammed
Lock and key, Oriental, scr. all. to, 493–
494.
'Aly, Greek inscrip- Machpelah, cave, purchase of, 151.
Khan en Nakûra and vill., 469.
Khan Minieh, 543.
Magic mirror of ink described, 228-
Kharub-tree, 20; pods of, "husks which Mais el Jebel, vill. and pool, 316.
the swine did eat," 21-22.
Khubbazy, Hebrew Khubbazly, the mal- Mameluk dress, 169.
va, discussion concerning, 161.
Maniacs, Moslem reverence for, 213.
Khudr Abu Abbas, shrine of, at Sarep- Manners and customs, Oriental, 135-
ta, 235.
Khuldeh, khan, ruins and sarcophagi at, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, 80.
Khûrbet el Bussal, ruins, 444.
Khurdileh, bridge over the Litany, 205.
Khyam, vill., 337.
Kibby, Arab dish, 135.
Kid in his mother's milk," 135.
Kishon River, Nahr Mukkuttah, danger-
ous crossing at, 492.
Kubkobs, 173; Damascene, 191.
Kubrikha, ruined temple, 315.
Kul'aet Jiddin, 472; Kurn, described,
Marône, vill., probable Meroz, 424;
tombs of rabbis, 433; feast of burn-
ing at, 433-434.
Maronites, origin of, 248; population
and distribution, 247.
Marsh of the Hûleh, 395.
Marten, animal, 473.
Mash, land of, 386.
M'asuba, ruins at, 476.
Matrimonial alliances, Oriental, 450-
457-459; Shem'ah, 445; Shukîf, or Mazars, shrines, described, 203-204.
Castle Bellefort, 332.
Kuleiyeh, vill., scene at, 329-330.
Kúra, ancient ruined town, 439.
Kurdany, Cendevia, lake and mills,
Kuseir, ruined towers, 445.
Mejdel Kroom, vill. and plain of, 512.
Mejdel Shems, Druse vill., 371.
Mellaha, fountain, fishery of, 398.
Mending roads, 106.
Merj Aiun, Ijon, plain of, described,
332-335.
Kusr 'Átra, ruined castle on the Jordan, Merj Bisry, temple of, 121.
403.
Ladakiyeh, city, tombs at, 151, 247.
Laish, Leshum, Dan, Tell el Kady, bat-
tles at, 320-323; character of its an-
cient inhabitants, 323.
Language, devout use of, by Orientals,
99-100.
Lapwing, bird, 104.
Leaking roofs, scr. all. to, 453.
Merom, Lake Huleh, Samechonitis, 320.
Meshún, brook, 205.
Metawelies, origin of, 248; customs of,
concerning defilement, 286-287; re-
semblance to the Jews, 287.
Migration of birds, scr. all. to, 503-506.
Mineralogy, Biblical, gems, precious
stones, 437-438.
Mishrephoth-maim, Musheirifeh, place,
Lebanon, Mount, seen from Cyprus, 18; Mizpeh, place east of the Jordan, 322.
appearance of, from the sea, 41; land Moorish treasure-seekers, 196.
slides of, 82-83; bad roads in, 105- Mortar and pestle, 134; braying a fool
106; "high places" on, 205; towns, in, with wheat, 135.
villages, and population of, 247; pas- Moses's view of the Promised Land, 17.
sage of Litany through, 254-258; ce- Moslems, attitudes of, in prayer, 26-27.
dars of, 292-297; temples of, 361.
Lily of the Hûleh described, scr. all. to, Mugharet er Rahib, source of the Oron-
393-394.
Lime-kilns, scr. all. to, 81.
Litany River, Leontes, described, 254-
256; nutural bridge of (Kuweh), 254;
passage through south end of Lebanon
(Khutweh), 254; northern boundary
of Palestine, 259.
Muhaibeeb, ruins at, 260.
Mukhtarah, vill., seat of Jemblat fami-
ly, 115, 120.
Munarah, ruin above the Hûleh, exten-
sive view from, 319-320.
Munterah, ruins at, view from, 159.
Musherrifeh, Mishrephoth-maim, 469; in-
scription at, 470.
Mushgharah, vill. and fountains in Leb-
Mutaleih, peak and temple on, 349.
Mutyar Abeih, view from, 82.
Nahr 'Azziyeh, 467; N. el Kelb, 57; scen-
ery of, 60; N. Naaman, Belus, 486.
Names, Oriental, manner of conferring,
178; significant, 179.
Naphtali, land of, 441; wadies and scen-
ery of, 441; wild beasts in, 442.
Narrow paths, 63, 106, 109.
Natural bridge over Dog River, 62;
over Litany, 254.
Ornithon, city of, see 'Adlûn.
Orontes River, Nahr el 'Asy, 366.
Othman el Hazûry, mazar, grove and
ruin at, 372.
Owely, Bostrenus River, source, course,
and scenery of, 120; cataract of, at
Jezzîn, 120; bridge of, 121; khan at,
121-122.
Ox-goad, scr. all. to, 501; ox goring a
man, scr. all. to, 518.
Palm-trees, 65; scr. all. to, 66-67.
Pan, temple of, at Baneas, 349.
Parable of the sower, 115-118; of the
king's feast, 178; of the fig-tree, 537.
Partridge, Syrian, 308-309; hunted by
falcons, 310.
Neb'a Baniasy, source of Jordan, 320;
el Blata, 320; Derdāra, 320; Fûarr, Passports, anecdote concerning, 64.
319; Leddan, fountain of the Lesser Pelican described, scr. all. to, 403.
Jordan, 320; Luisany, 319, 339; Ru- Perizzites, location of, 242.
ahiny, ruins at, 338; el Mellahah, Petrified wood and cane, 536.
source of the Jordan, 371; full of
leeches, 368.
Philip of Macedon, coin of, 195.
Phoenicia, boundaries and plains of, 245--
246.
320; el Lebn and el 'Asil, 61; Sureid, Phiala, Lake, Birket Rām, 367-371; not
a fountain of the Jordan, 319; er Ra-
hib, fountain and aqueduct, 211; et
Tasy, source of Zahrany River, 210.
Nebatiyeh, vill., 205.
Neby Husha, Joshua, 397; Muhaibeeb,
Metawely mazar, 315; Shit, tomb of
Seth, 353; Seijud, 205; Yahyeh, ma-
zar of John the Baptist, 159; Yunas,
Jonah, 94.
Necklace, 185.
Necromancer, 214.
Night with the governor of Tibnîn, 313-
314; night at Khan Jisr el Owely,
121-124; bridal party at, 124.
Nihah, vill. and temples at, 361.
Nineveh, repentance of, at preaching of
Jonah, 99-100.
Noah, tomb of, at Kerak in the Buk'ah,
Phanician harbors, 143; sarcophagus
and inscription upon, 199-201.
Phoenicians, origin of, according to He-
rodotus, 239; according to Josephus,
239; according to the Bible, 240–244;
not from the Red Sea, 243.
Pigeon-houses, 415.
Pine groves of Beirût, 63.
Pipes, Arab, 163.
Pits, ancient cisterns in Belad Beshara,
442-443.
Platoneum, Nukkar es S'adiat, 88.
Plowing in winter, 207; many plows in
same line, 208; plowing in compa-
nies, 209.
Politeness, Oriental, 123.
Pools, scr. all. to, 316; nauseous char-
acter of the water, 316; fail in dry
weather, 316.
Porphyreon, ruined city, 94.
Prayer, Moslem, attitudes of, 26-27; on
a river bank, 206.
Precious stones, scr. all. to, 437-438.
Promontorium Album, Ladder of Tyre,
Oil, olive, ancient presses of, 70, 71, 307;
modern presses of, 523-524; villages Purpura, shell of Tyrian purple, 157,
celebrated for, 524.
Olive-tree, 69; grove of, beauty of the
tree, 70; grafting of, 71; wild and Quails, hunting of, 310.
tame, 71-72; flower of, 73; value of Quarries, ancient, at 'Adlûn, 236.
the olive, gathering and gleaning, 74–
75; slow growth of the tree, 73; aged Rains, winter, prayed for, 130; descrip-
tree surrounded by young ones, scr. tion of, 130-131.
all. to, 77; olive orchards choked Rakhleh, temples at, 350.
with thorns, 514-515; treading of ol- Rameh, Rama of Naphtali, 513, 515.
ives, 524; blight of, 525.
Ram's skins dyed red, 139.
Ramy, Rama of Asher, 444.
Ras es Shukkah, Theoprosopon, 44.
Ras il 'Ain at Tyre, pools at, 276-280;
aqueducts from, 279.
Rash'iat el Fukhar, 350.
Raven and Noah's ark, 68.
Refuge, cities of, 404-405.
Rehob, identification with Banias, 391.
Relic worship, scr. all. to, 509-510.
Rephaims, giants, 242.
Retaliation, law of, 447-449.
Roads, character of, mending of, 65;
Roman, 103.
Robbers at Bay of Acre, scr. all. to rob-
bers, 487.
Roman mile-stone near Sidon, 203.
Roofs, flat, 48; battlements of, 48;
of, 49; sleeping upon, scr. all. to,
uses Shefa 'Amar, town, 502.
50-Sheikh 'Aly el Mughraby, Moslem re-
former, 461.
Rose, Hebrew Khubbazleh, 161.
Rubudiyeh, wady and ruins, 516.
Rumeish, vill., 439; destroyed by earth-
quake, 429.
Rump of sheep, 138.
S'aary, brook at Banias, 366.
Sabbatic River identified and described,
Sheikh el Mujahid, mazar, 462.
Shepherds, 87, 300; going before sheep,
301; dogs of the flock, 301; encoun-
tering wild animals, 302; feeding the
flock, 303; life of, on the mountains,
304-305; scr. all. to shepherds and
flocks, 301-305.
Shepherd's staff, 305; shepherd's tent,
Safed, 198; castle of, 420; not Betheu- Shiites, Persian Moslems, 248.
lia, possibly the "city set on a hill," Shoes, Oriental, 173.
420; prospect from, 420; perhaps cas- Shrines, reverence for, 509.
tle of Seph, 423; villages surrounding Shuf, district of, 115.
it, 423-425; manners and supersti- Shukif, castle, Bellefort, 206, 332.
tions of the Jews there, 426; strings Shwoifat, olive grove of, 68;
stretched on poles made to represent
walls of a city, 426; destroyed by Shwoizirieh, ruins of, 474.
earthquake in 1837, 427–432.
S'ated Bey Jimblat, 115.
Salemia, Salamin, ruins, 516.
Salutations, Oriental, character of, 534.
Samechonitis, Greek name of Lake Hû-
leh, 320.
Sanchoniatho, chronicles of, 42.
Sand desert of Beirût, 76-78; origin,
ripples of, 77-78.
Sandy downs at head of the Bay of
Acre, 487.
Sidon, view of, from the North, 127;
gardens, 159, 161; history, 128; an-
cient manufactures, 143; allusions to,
in Homer, 144; cemeteries of, 150;
harbor, 143, 154; modern statistics,
154; ancient remains of, 156-157; an-
cient wall of, 157; castles of, 157;
fruits of, 161; colonies of, 128.
Sinites, 243, 245.
Sinsilet el Hiyeh, ridge, 394.
Sirocco, wind, described, 454.
Sitting at work, 191.
Sarafend, Sarepta, 232; ruins of, 235; Sleeping on the ground, stone pillows,
widow of, 232; Elijah at, 235.
Scanderuna, Alexandroschene, ruins
84; whole families in one room, 180.
Sluggard, scr. all. to, Arab. anecdotes
of, 519-522.
Smoking Arab pipes, argela, 163.
Sogane, 516.
Sowing seed, parable of, 115-118, sow-
ing in tears, 118-119; sowing late,
Sparrow, scr. all. to, 53-54; field spar-
row, nests of, 397.
Sects and tribes of Syria, statistics of, 327-328.
246; distribution of, 247.
Seddan, temple on Hermon, 349.
Seed, destruction of, 116; rotting under
clod, 119.
Seid Yehuda, mazar, 389; temples at,|
Stanhope, Lady Hester, residence of,
110; history, character, burial, and
tomb of, 110-114.
Stewards, Wakeels, dishonesty of, scr.
St. George, Bay of, 45; St. George and
the dragon, 45.
St. Helen's Towers, 79, 209.
purchase of tombs, 151; tombs of the
judges, plan of, 152-153; tombs in
the clefts of rocks, 308.
Toron, castle of the Crusaders, Tibnin,
Stork, migrations of, anecdotes of, 503- Tortosa, town, 151.
505.
Transfiguration of Christ, scene of, 348–
Storms, 129; Euroclydon, 132; descrip- 349.
tion of a storm, 194; fatal, on the plain Traveling in winter, difficulties of, 330-
of Ijon, 337.
Streets, Oriental, narrow, 38.
Treasure-seekers, infatuation of, 196.
Subeiba, Arabic name of the castle of Tribes, boundaries of, 483-485.
Banias, 377.
Sukhnin, Sogane, 516.
Sulemia, wady of, 513-515.
Sunnites, orthodox Moslems, 247.
Sunrise at Banias, 381.
Swallows, migration of, 506.
Sycamore-tree, 23; figs of, 23; Zacche-
us in, 22; type of faith, 24; wood of,
25.
Syria and Palestine, population of, 246-
247.
Syro-Phænician woman, 236.
Tubloon, caves of, 198; sarcophagi at,
199; temples at, 203.
Tyre, Sur, plain of, ruins round the bay
of, 260; insecurity of its present har-
bor, 260; prophecies concerning Tyre,
261; area of the island, 262; Alex-
ander's causeway, 262; great stone
in north wall, 265; granite columns,
266; ancient edifices excavated, 266;
fountains and supply of water, 267;
Tyrian purple, 157, 268; origin of
Tyre, site of continental Tyre, 270;
Tell Hubbeish the acropolis of it, 270;
Tabiga, fountains of, 540; origin of the siege of Nebuchadnezzar, 261; de-
name, 547.
Talismans, writing of, 140–141.
Tamra, ford over the Litany, 205.
Tamyras, River Damûr, 81.
Tantours, horns of ladies' head-dress,
101.
Tantúra, Dor, 210.
Tarshihah, town, 461.
Tarshish and Tarsûs, site of, discussed,
98-99.
Tattooing, Oriental, scr. all. to, 91-93.
Taxes and tax-gatherers, 498.
Tear-bottles, 147.
Tell el Burak, 206, 209; Birweh, 497,
511; Daûk, 497; Dibbîn, Ijon, 335;
Haruthieh, 497; Hubbeish, 205
Hûm, Capernaum, ruins of, 540; el
Kady, Dan, Laish, 320; described,
381-384; Khaizeran, 236; Kezan,
496; M'ashûk, 279.
Temples in Anti-Lebanon and Hermon,
349-361.
Temples in Lebanon, 361.
Tent-dwelling peasants, 455-456.
Tent-life, 83-84.
Tents of Kedar, 251.
Terebinth, 373-375; described, 413-414.
Thorns cut up for burning lime, 81.
Thorns burned, scr. all. to, 527-529.
Tiberias destroyed by earthquake, 432-
433.
Tibnin, Toron, vill. and castle, 311-312.
Tilthatha, temple of, Neby Sufah, 350.
Time, Oriental notation of, 91.
Tombs, ornamented with myrtle and
palm branches, 148; women mourn-
ing at, 145; tombs in the rocks, 151;
struction by Alexander, 271; com-
merce of Tyre according to Ezekiel,
274-276; cathedral of Tyre described
by Eusebius, 282-283; Paul departing
from Tyre, 283; remains of the east-
ern wall under the causeway of Alex-
ander, 288.
Upper chamber, 235.
Uz, land of, 386.
Veils, scr. all. to, 33-35.
Waar, Hebrew yaar, rocky woods, 473.
Wady Aiûn, 306, 439; 'Amûd, 424;
Benna, 457; Farah, 366; Habis, 308;
Hajeir, 314; Hamûl, 468; Hamam,
535; Jelo, 308; Hendaj, 404; el Kurn,
457; Kutamone, ruins in, 471; beau-
tiful scenery of, 471; Kuzrōne, mar-
tens in cliffs of, 473; Leimûny, 424,
536; Sulemia, 513-515; es Sh'ab, 511;
et Teim, 242, 322; Mu'adummîyeh,
397; el Wukk'as, 404; Yafury, 321.
Wakeels, stewards, scr. all. to, 517.
Washing of hands, 183; of feet, 174.
Water-spouts, 499.
Wells, uncovered, scr. all. to, anecdotes
of, 518-519.
Whales in the Mediterranean, 95-96.
Witches and witchcraft, 214.
Women, Oriental, dress, seclusion, so-
cial state, 174-176; desire for chil-
dren, 177; social degradation of, 187.
Wood of Ephraim, Hebrew yaar, Ara-
bic waar, 374.
Wrecks in the Bay of Acre, 488.
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