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We were set to building the road between Saffêd and Tiberias, on the Sea of Galileea link in the military highway from Damascus to the coast, which would be used for the movement of troops in case the railroad should be cut off.
No mere coincidence brought the Kaiser to Damascus in November, 1898,the same month that Kitchener, in London, was hailed as Gordon's avenger,when he uttered his famous phrase at the tomb of Saladin: "Tell the three hundred million Moslems of the world that I am their friend!"
Damascus from the Anti-LebanonEntering the CityA Diorama of BazaarsAn Oriental HotelOur ChamberThe BazaarsPipes and CoffeeThe Rivers of DamascusPalaces of the JewsJewish LadiesA Christian GentlemanThe Sacred LocalitiesDamascus BladesThe Sword of Haroun Al-RaschidAn Arrival from Palmyra Chapter X. The Visions of Hasheesh.
"The price is a half-piastre in Damascus at the meaner shops.
It was he who broke the power of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Mehemet Ali; it was he who guided Admiral Stopford in the bombardment of Beirut; it was he, again, who brought about the landing of English troops in Syria in 1841; we find him afterwards in Damascus as British Consul, and wherever he went he was always busy spreading English power and prestige.
"I shall start for Damascus by the early trainprobably take an auto as far as Ludd.
Jeremy was supposed to be a travelled Arab intent on guiding me about Damascus for the usual consideration.
I walked the streets of Damascus with a strange consciousness that I was in some other place at the same time, and with a constant effort to reunite my divided perceptions.
"The Emir Feisul is astonished, Jimgrim, that Colonel Lawrence and you should visit Damascus without claiming his hospitality.
It was all over Damascus within the hour that Lawrence had come from England to stand by Feisul in the last ditch.
The next memorable event in the life of Saulat that time probably a member of the Jewish Sanhedrimwas his conversion to Christianity, as sudden and unexpected as it was profound and lasting, while on his way to Damascus on the errand already mentioned.
