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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ber of the party said, I w^s with Khalid onthat expédition, and we had to follow the guide. Ihad a pair of leather shoes with Yemen soles, ofwhich I was very proud, and which I fancied wouldlast me for years. On that night nothing remainedof them but the uppers on my legs. I was afraid ofthe results of the rough and difficult mountain paththat we had traversed, and perceived that the otherswere complaining and wishing that the guide hadkept to the beaten track. However, before night wasover we had got over the worst part, and emergedinto the main road, where the guide hoped that weshould hâve come up with the fugitives; but whenwe had reached it, we saw their track, and found thatthey had got in front of us, by forced marches appar-ently. Khalid said, ^ They hâve escaped us. But theguide Jonas said, ^ I hâve hopes that God Almightywill detain them till we can come up with them, ifHe will. So let us hasten. Khalid accordinglybade the men bestir themselves. The Moslems said, ( 428 )
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SCENES FROM HISTORY OF DAMASCUS * Commander, the difficult path has worn us out, solet us rest and give our horses food and rest also.But he said, ^ Move on in the name of God, for it isGod who bids you march; hasten in pursuit of yourenemies. So they hastened, the guide showing the way, andalso acting as our interpréter, and whatever villagewe entered, the people there thought us ChristianArabs of the tribes Ghassan, Lakhm, or Judham.He took us past Gibili and Latakieh, and brought usat last within sight of the sea, still following the trail.And then we saw that the fugitives had passed byLatakieh without entering it for fear of the EmperorHeraclius. Jonas was amazed at this, and going toa village near asked some of the proprietors v^hathad happened; and they informed him that the Em-peror Heraclius hearing that Thomas and Arabiushad delivered the city of Damascus to the Moslems,w^as exceedingly angry, and had not permitted themto approach him; bis purpose being to collect anarmy an

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