ABĀDEH tribe, the, 23 Abana River, the, 152 'Abdul 'Aziz ibn er Rashīd, 146 Ḥamed Pasha Druby, 189, 194 Hamid Rafi 'a Zādeh, 201-219, 339 Ḳādir, the great Algerian, 145-46 Ḳādir el Aẓam, 224-27, 237 Mejīd, Kurdish zaptieh, 210-11 Wahhāb Beg, 182 'Abdullah Pasha, the Amīr, 145-49 'Abd ur Raḥmān Pasha, 239 Abraham, George, 335 Abrash River, the, 210 Abu Kbesh, castle of, 218 Zreik, village of, 101 'l Fīda, sarcophagus of, 230 Acropolis, Athens, 167; Antioch, 322, 324-25 Adana, 271 Aden, 265 'Adwān tribes, 16 Afrīn, valley of the, 288 Agha, Muḥammad 'Ali, 311-14 Reshīd, 339 Rifa't, collection of, 322-23, 325 Rustum, 311-12 Aḥmed, son of Ghishghāsh, 111-12, 128 'Ain esh Shems, 7, 217 'Aintāb, missionary schools at, 334 Ajlūn hills of, 16 'Akabah, Gulf of, 14 Al Ḥerdeh, village of, 233 'Ala, Jebel el, 276, 302, 305, 309, 310 Alāni, 314-16 Aleppo, 66, 222_n._, 232, 244, 250, 251, 256, 270-72, 311, 314; description, 260-69 Alexander the Great, 242, 336 Alexandretta, 262, 265, 270, 324, 336 Alexandria, 240 Ali id Diāb ul 'Adwān, Sultān ibn, 16 Muḥammad, Pasha of Aleppo, 148, 268 Pasha, Amīr, 145-47, 149 Allāt, 95 'Alya, Jebel el, 51-52, 64 Amanus, Mount, 336 Amereh, mound of, 26 American College, Beyrout, 208, 230 Survey, the, 77, 171, 276, 297 'Ammān, 13, 20, 27, 56, 164 'Anazeh tribe, the, 24, 25, 65, 127, 152, 172, 197 Anglo-Japanese alliance, 229 'Antara, poetry of, 59-60 Anti-Libanus, 111, 121, 159, 167 Antioch, 175, 270, 277, 278, 281, 310; description and relics, 318-27, 336 Apamea, 242, 327 Apostles' Well, the, _see_ 'Ain esh Shems Arabic inscriptions, 122, 242 Arabs, 14, 16, 23 _et seq._, 56-58, 66-67; hospitality, 32-33, 37, 55-57; customs, etc., 36-37, 42, 49, 67; poetry, 60-63; inter-tribal relations, 65-66 'Areh, village of, 81, 85 'Arjārmeh, the, 14 Armenians, 140; the Armenian question, 328-29 Asad Beg, 171 Asbā 'i, Muṣṭafa el, 148 'Asī, swamp of the, 242 Assassins, sect of the, 196 At Tabari, history of, 80 Athens, 297; the Acropolis, 167 Awād, the Arab, 121-23, 127 'Awais, Yūsef el, 160 Aẓam Zādeh family at Ḥamāh, 223-24 Azrak, Kala 'at el, 84
BA'ALBEK, 159-160; Temple of The Sun, 164-169; Temple of Jupiter, 172, 176; Basilica of Constantine, 183; Ras ul 'Ain, 187; Christian church at, 214 Bāb el Hawa, the, 297, 301 Bābiska, village, 297-98 Babylonia, 241 Baghdad, 66, 111; the railway to, 261-62 Baghrās, castle of, 336 Bailān, Pass of, 336 Baitocaicē, 214 Bāḳirḥa, ruins of, 278, 298-303 Balad, Sheikh el, 58 Barād, village of, 287-89 Barada, the Wādi, 159 Barāzi family, Ḥamāh, 224 Barāzi, Muṣṭafa Pasha el, 147, 148, 236 Bārisha, Jebel, 276, 298, 301, 302 Bashan, 84 Basilica of Constantine, Ba'albek, 183 Bāsufān, church at, 288, 291 Bathaniyyeh, 131 Bawābet Ullaḥ, the, Damascus, 133 Bedouins, 10, 23, 56, 122, 197, 256 Bedr, battle of, 62 Behā'is, religion of the, 150, 193 Beiḍa, Ḳal'at el, 34, 123-28 White Land, 108, 121 Belḳa plain, 19, 23-24; tribes of the, 23-26, 56-58 Beni 'Atiyyeh, the, 239, 240 Awājeh tribe, the, 66 Ḥassan tribe, the, 65, 68, 96 Ṣakhr, 24, 33, 38, 41, 43 Sha 'alān, the, 25 Beyrout, 99, 198, 208, 230, 231, 262 Birijik, railway at, 261-62 Birket Umm el 'Amūd, the, 25-26 Bizzos, Tomb of, 253-54, 277-78 Bḳei'a, the plain, 198 Black Sea, 8 Stone at Mecca, 96 Blunts, the travellers, 84 Boer War, the, 229 Bologna, 254 Boṣrā, 20, 74, 81 el Harīr, 229 Brāk, village of, 132 Brünnow, "Die Provincia Arabia," 34_n._, 52_n._ Būkhālih, 125 Burj el Kās, 282 Ḥeida, 292 Burjkeh, village of, 280-81 Busān, the Wādi, 107 Butler, Mr., 75, 244, 276-78, 286