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id: 44122
author: Nelson, William S.
title: Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences
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  It was a practice with us for many years to arrange a special evangelistic medical trip in the spring of the year. The Orontes is quite wide and deep near its mouth and we crossed it on just such a wire ferry as I had seen many years before on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts.


id: 19378
author: Pickthall, Marmaduke William
title: Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
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  But the experience of other, older men must weigh with me.' 'Let other men judge people as they find them, and do thou likewise,' said Suleymân.


id: 38319
author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb
title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad
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  Are they wicked men, then? No, they are good men as a rule, but in our country we do not understand the people who do not do what others do. They were partners mostly of city men, who provided the seed and the stock and took two-thirds of the produce in payment.


id: 17278
author: Jessup, Henry Harris
title: The Women of the Arabs
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  Until recently in Syria women were poisoned, thrown down wells, beaten to death, or cast into the sea, and the government made no inquisition into the matter. Paradise is thus held up to the women as the reward of obedience to their husbands, and this is about the sum and substance of what the majority of Moslem women know about religion.


id: 8884
author: Burckhardt, John Lewis
title: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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  Proceeding a little farther, we came to the high borders of a broad valley, called El Ghoeyr (Arabic), (diminutive of Arabic El Ghor) to the S. of Wady Dhana. [p.149]direction came in an hour and a half to the Christian village Kefrbehoun Arabic]; and in two hours, to a hillock in the plain called Tel Afyoun [Arabic], i.e. the opium-hill, with an ancient well.


