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Title: The Jordan valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William, 1855- Hoskins, Franklin Evans, joint author
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Publisher: New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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enderhands, dressed in desert costume with sword andMowing garments. The Zabit was as good a typeof a brutal Roman soldier, and his chief pleasureseemed to be that of gloating over Deeb andhis followers. He used his tongue like a whip-lash, told us the story of their ineffectual attemptsto hold the castle against the government, anc(ended each paragraph with an invitation to Deebto say : Allah Yansur es Sultan — May Godmake the Sultan victorious. For reasons thatneed no explication here Deeb would make theproper response, and the Zabit would then cursehim, and tell him that it came from his lips onlyand not from his heart. It recalled another Arabsaying that no Anglo-Saxon can fully understand, Kiss the hand that you cannot break and bideyour time. We had difficulty in securing barley at Shobek.The Mecca caravan had passed southward sometwenty days before us, and all these highland townshad been scoured for provisions of all kinds. Thiswas one reason, but a far more powerful one was
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Kerak to Shobek 33 the presence of the eleven government horsemenwhose animals needed barley every day. Ourmuleteers came back in daylight with empty bags,but at sunset some of the people came stealthilyand an hour later we had all the barley we needed.Had they declared in daylight the existence ofbarley in their homes the soldiers would have hadeither barley or the money very soon. In hunting for the meaning of Shobek, the mod-ern name of the castle and town, and in searchingfor some possible connection with the Crusadername, Mons Regalis, we came across a thread ofcoincidence which may some day lead to a solu-tion. We state it for what it is worth. The lastCrusader chief who held Kerak and this out-post of Mons Regalis was Reynald, or Renau deChatillon, the audacious freebooter, whose perfidytowards Saladin brought on the final slaughterwhich ended the Kingdom of Jerusalem at Hattin(see Vol. I., p. 115). Chatillon in French has themeaning of a diminutive for the lamprey eel, and iti

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