Travels In Syria And The Holy Land By John Lewis Burckhardt


























































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The Wife Of The Latter, It Appeared, Had Been Carried Off By Another Arab, Who Fearing The Vengeance Of The Injured Husband, Had Gone To The Druse Sheikh Of Khabeb, And Having Secured His Dakhil [Arabic], Or Protection, Returned To The Woman In The Ledja.

The Sheikh sent word to the husband, cautioning him against taking any violent measures against his enemy.

The husband, whom we here met with, wished to persuade the Druses that the Dakhil of the Sheikh was unjust, and that the adulterer ought to be left to his punishment. The Druse not agreeing with him, he swore that nothing should prevent him from shedding the blood of the man who had bereft him of his own blood; but I was persuaded that he would not venture to carry his threat into effect; for should he kill his enemy, the Druses would not fail to be revenged upon the slayer or his family.

The outer Ledja is to be distinguished from the inner, on this side as well as on that by which we entered it, the former being much less rocky, and more fit for pasturage than the latter. On the borders of the inner Ledja we passed several places where the mill-stones are made, which I have mentioned in a former part of my journal. The stones are cut horizontally out of the rocks, leaving holes of four or five feet in depth, and as many in circumference; fifty or sixty of these excavations are often met with in the circumference of a mile.

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