AMONG

THE ARAB TRIBES

INHABITING THE COUNTRIES

EAST OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE,

INCLUDING A JOURNEY

FROM NAZARETH TO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE DEAD SEA,

AND FROM THENCE THROUGH THE

PLAINS OF THE HAURAN

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BOZRA, DAMASCUS, TRIPOLY, LEBANON, BAALBECK,

AND BY THE VALLEY OF THE ORONTES

TO SELEUCIA, ANTIOCH, AND ALEPPO.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING A REFUTATION OF CERTAIN UNFOUNDED CALUMNIES
INDUSTRIOUSLY CIRCULATED AGAINST THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK, BY MR. LEWIS BURCKHARDT,
MR. WILLIAM JOHN BANKES, AND THE QUARTERLY Review.

By J. S. BUCKINGHAM,

AUTHOR OF TRAVELS IN PALESTINE AND THE COUNTRIES EAST OF THE JORDAN;
MEMBER OF THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF BOMBAY AND MADRAS,
AND OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

LONDON:

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LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSter-row.

IAN

30-C1936

BRARY

LONDON:

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ΤΟ

BENJAMIN BABINGTON, Esq.

THIS

VOLUME OF TRAVELS

IS

GRATEFULLY DEDICATED,

AS

A TOKEN OF THE SINCERE ESTEEM AND REGARD

OF

HIS AFFECTIONATE AND FAITHFUL FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.