INDEX

Abbasides, 110

'Abd el hamīd Bey, 104, 133

Abdallah, 182, 191

Abisha, 198

Abraham, 24, 177, 202, 209, 222

Abu-dis, 5

Acacias, 22, 253, 311 (farnesiana, tortilis, seyal)

Academy of France, 61, 62

Acre or Akko, 247, 252, 256

Acropolis, 238, 308

Adam Smith, Professor George, 72, 202, 204, 235

Adonis, 253

Adummim, 9

Adwân, 118

Ægean, 234

Agriculture, elementary, 125, 146

— English, 227

— German, 248

— scientific, 38

Ahab, 204, 205, 215

Ahaziah, 235

Ain Es-Shech, 160, 167

Ain Es-Sultan, 14

Ain El-Mastaba, 146

Ain et Tâbigha, 287 (see Bethsaida)

Ain Fesail, 341

'Ajlûn, 100, 127

Akal, 4, 24, 48

Al Chirnik, 66

Alexander, 199

Alexander the Great, 207

Algeria, 279

Allah, 31, 76

Almonds, 171, 253

Altar, 232, 233, 239

Ammân, 94, 101, 105, 106, 107, 113, 116, 118, 119, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 132, 138, 139, 140, 141, 148, 301

Ammon, 126

Ammoperdix heyi, 33

Amphitheatre, 308, 315, 316

Amulets, Jewish, 13

Anastatica, 36

Anatolia, 104

'Anazeh, 96, 100

Anemones, 203, 228, 245, 253

Angel, 318

Animals, wild, 32, 33, 255

Anthony, 13

Antiques, 196, 231, 239, 240, 324

Antoninus Martyr, 271, 276

Apocynacea, 35

Apostles' Fountain, 8

Apples, 204

"Apple of Sodom," 36

Apricot-tree, 107, 108, 204

Aqueduct, 8, 235, 239, 286, 297, 329

Arabia, 43, 54

— Central, 7, 40

— Roman, 69

Arab steed, 5, 6

Arabs, 17, 48, 66

— characteristics, 112, 181, 182, 213, 251, 325, 333

Arabs, customs, 122, 296, 299

— effect of climate upon, 12

— good cooking among, 114, 237

— superstitions of, 66

— their dress, 24

— their indifference to surroundings, 47

— their lack of initiation, 12

— traditions and sayings of, 71, 75, 76, 82, 127, 284, 326, 332

Arak, 311

Arbutus, 253

Archæologist, 54, 55, 62, 80, 86, 101, 230, 232

Archelais, 338, 344

Archelaus, 338

Architecture, domestic, 16

— ecclesiastical, 68, 72

— Byzantine, 83

— Greek, 205, 282

— Sassanian, 84

Arculf, 258

Ard' Abdallah, 46

Arimathea, 104

Ark of the Covenant, 188

Arnon, 108, 126

Arrow-head, 91

Artemesium, 99

Artemisia, 128

Artist, the, 179

Arums, 91, 98, 253

Arvanitaki, M., 60

Ascalon, 199

Ashkenazim, 305

Asia Minor, 63, 84, 103

Asparagus, 278

Asphodel, 254

Asplenium-trichomanes, 253

Asses, 24

Assumptionist Order, 62

Assyrians, 206

Astarte, 233, 314

Augusta, 207

Augustus, 207, 343

Azalea, 253, 306

Azedarach (Pride of India), 311

Baal, 46, 68, 207, 216, 233

Ba'albek, 108, 127

Baana, 233

Bab-el Allah, 76

Babylon, 234

Bacilli (of tetanus), 9

— (cholera), 13

Backsheesh, 2, 22, 23, 31, 169, 193, 196, 201, 213

Baedeker, 55, 80, 140

"Baedeker," 179

Balak, 46

Balaam, 46

Balm, 127

Balsams, 13, 329

Balsamum Gileadense, 127

Bananas, 11, 19, 306

Baptism, 12

Barak, 266

Bar Cochba, 304

Barley, 278

Barnabé d'Alsace, P., 273

Basalt, 42, 71, 311

Bashan, 128

Basilica, 106, 208

Bas-reliefs, 84

Baths, 129, 209, 297, 305, 316

Battlefields, 227, 266, 279

Bawâbet Allâh, 76

Bean, 294

Bears, 185

Bedu cemetery, 119

— characteristics of, 23, 24, 55, 56, 67, 80, 164, 177, 291, 294, 296

— versus Circassians, 106, 129

— customs, 135, 166

— funeral, 121, 122

— and Hosea, 152, 153

— pipe, 5

Bedu songs, poems, and folklore, 96, 97, 118, 292

— stories of, 291, 319

— superstitions among, 66

— traditions, 101

— women's dress, 120

(See also Beni Sakr, Shech Muhammed, Beni Hasan)

Beersheba, 202

Beitin, 183, 185, 187

Belad-er-Ruah, 228

Belka, 104-108, 111, 126, 127, 128, 155, 163, 170, 176, 334

Benedictine convent, 8, 255, 276

Beni Hasan, 135, 312

Beni Jafn, 85

Beni Sakr, 71, 83

Benjamin, 179, 183

— of Tudela, 199

Besan, 284, 306, 310, 314, 315, 316, 317, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329

Bethabara, 312

Bethany, 5, 8

Bethel, 185, 194, 220

Bethlehem, 45, 160, 194

Bethsaida, 287, 301

Bethshan, 227

Beth-shean, 314, 315

Biever, Father, 55, 287, 288, 292

Bint Shech Luth, 10

Birds, 11, 17, 18, 33, 34, 43, 191, 227, 246, 254, 296, 331, 332, 341

Bir es Zet, 185, 192

Bishlik, 337

Bishopric, 54, 55, 158, 210, 304

Blackberries, 125

Blackbirds, 17, 34

Bliss, Dr, 53, 55, 57, 87

Blue (colour used as protection against Evil One), 4, 66

Boar, 32, 255

Boaz, 239

Bones of babies, 232, 239

Boniface of Ragusa, 226

Bosphorus, 63

Bougainvilea, 252, 285

Bowen, 195 (Bishop of Sierra Leone)

Box Colony, 197

Box-tree, 23

Bridge, 22, 23, 28, 31, 141, 164, 168, 170, 307

Brook Cherith, 15, 34, 175

Brothers of St John the Divine, 263, 269

Browning, 51, 78

Brünnow, Professor, 54, 85

Bulbul, 296

Bulrushes, 331

Burckhardt, 108, 109, 110, 111, 155

Burial monument, 46

Burton, Sir Richard, 87

Byzantine architecture, 83

— churches, 70, 110

— priest, 63

Caccabis saxatilis, 33

Cactus, 226

Cæsar, 207

Cæsarea, 199

Caifa, 247

Cairns, 90

Calcium, 10

Calf, 185

Callirhoe, 45, 306

Calotropis procera, 36

Camels, 12, 24, 38, 64, 66, 146, 263

— in their natural surroundings, 65

— droppings, 41, 75

Camel's hair, 4, 24, 293

Campanulas, 278

Campus Legionis, 235

Cana, 270, 271, 272 (see Kefr Kennâ)

Canaan, 232

Canaanites, buildings of, 233

Candlestick, seven-branched, 187

Capernaum, 297, 298, 301

Capers, 278

Capitals, 56, 87, 119, 120, 142, 189, 211, 214, 298, 305, 316

Capoéta, 290

Caravans, 23, 74, 75, 76, 149

Carmel, Mount, 190, 202, 228, 237, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 255, 266

Carmelites, 249, 257

Carnelian, 212

Carobs, 204, 253

Carpets, 156

Carts, 104, 105

Casale St Giles, 186

Castal, 70, 71, 94

Castle, Arab, 278

— Arabian, 233

— Belvoir, 310

— at Castal, 95

— of Crusaders, 12, 185, 264

— of Es-Salt, 158

— mediæval, 9

— of Mshatta, 79

— of Lazarus, 8

— Saracenic, 70

Cat, 25, 32, 251

Cathedral, 57, 207, 210

Caucasus, 103, 104

Cave, 16, 101, 203, 285

Cemetery, 119, 224, 272, 274

Cenotaph, 101

Censer, 240

Centaureas, 254, 332

Central Arabia, 7, 40

Central Asia, 76

Central Palestine, 219

Chameleons, 278

Chapel (Rijal el-'Amud), 190

— of St Simon Stock, 25

Charcoal-burners, 150, 153

Chariot, 205, 314

Chariton, St, 15

Chats, 227, 331 (saxicola libanotica)

Cheetahs, 32

Cherith, 15, 34, 175

Cheilanthes-fragrans, 253

Chiff-chaffs, 227

Chlorides, 330

Chloride of calcium, 10

— of magnesium, 10

Cholera, 2, 13, 75, 76, 157, 160, 169, 212, 284

Chorazin, 301

Chosroes II., 53, 83, 84, 85, 125

Christian Brothers, 262

Chromis paterfamilias, 290

Chromis simonis, 290

Chrysanthemum, 253, 254, 332

Chub, 108

Church, Christian, 71, 158, 298

— Greek, 57, 58, 148, 195, 210

— Latin, 148, 149, 270, 271

Churches, 55, 60, 195, 202, 275

— Byzantine, 70, 110

Church of the Annunciation, 264, 265, 268

— of Mount Carmel, 257

— of Crusaders, 12, 264

— of St Elias, 275

— mediæval fortress, 189

— of Knights of St John, 181

— of St Louis, 255

— of St Margaret, 255

— of the Sovereign Mother of God, 57

— of the Holy Sepulchre, 211

Cinnyris oseæ, 34

Circassians, 24, 76, 90, 97, 102, 103, 105, 110, 111, 118, 125, 127, 129, 134, 137, 138, 147, 158, 277

Circle, stone, 45, 46

Circus, 129, 143, 216

Cistern, 14, 68, 81, 219, 285

Cities, 67, 235, 236, 238, 282

Civilisation, 45, 80, 110, 176

Clay, 10

Clarias macracanthus, 290

Clematis cirrhosa, 253

Clermont-Ganneau, Mons, 59, 61

Cléopas, Père, 58, 60, 61, 62

Cleopatra, 13

Climate, 12

Cock, 187

Codex, Samaritan, 198

Coffee, 111, 133, 136

Coins, 196, 212, 315

College, 196

Colocynth, 228

Colonies, 47, 83, 95, 104

Colonists (German), 12, 105, 247, 252, 259

Columns, 45, 109, 110, 119, 129, 130, 141, 142, 143, 185, 189, 205, 207, 209, 216, 298, 305, 316, 344

Commerce, 13, 159

Conder, 236

Conduits, 14, 110

Confessors, 315

Constantinople, 63

Constantine, 264

Consuls, 248, 257, 313

Convent, Benedictine, 8

— at Mount Carmel, 252, 255

— at Es-Salt, 153

— at Nablûs, 193, 201

— at Nazareth, 260

— of St Pierre, 292

— at Tiberias, 297

Coracinus, 290

Corinthian architecture, 56, 95, 109, 142, 143, 189, 298, 311

Corn, 329

Corn-crakes, 227

Corvus affinis, 33

Cotton, 195

Cranes' bills, 227

Crocuses, 91, 227, 253

Cromlech, 148

Crosses, 71, 211

Crusades, 158, 315

Crusaders, 12, 15, 104, 175, 181, 186, 207, 211, 252, 264, 303, 304

Crystal, 212

Cuckoo, 34

Cufic inscriptions, 70, 71

— coins, 196

Cultivation, 43, 45, 55, 252, 279

Curtiss, the late Professor, 223

Cyclamen, 253

Daisies, yellow, 227, 278

Damascéna, capoéta, 290

Damascus, 72, 74, 76, 84, 87, 101, 125, 177, 199, 314

Dames de Nazareth, 262

Dancing, 166, 294

Dates, 29, 39, 329

David, 222

Dead Sea, 9, 10, 17, 32, 163, 173, 216, 328

Dead Sea fruit (calotropis procera), 36

Dead Sea valley, 43

Deborah, 181, 232

Decapolis, 127, 128, 129, 301, 315

Decius, 315

"Decline and Fall," 83

Deerhound, 291

Derwish, 75, 76, 162, 317

Dhaher, 247

Dieb, 294, 301

Diocletian, 315, 329

Diseases, 221, 306

Divorce (documents of), 1

Doctor, the, 2

Documents (divorce), 13

Dog, 25, 94, 205

Dog-bane (apocynacea), 35

Dolmen, 45, 46, 273

Dolomite, 42

Dominican, 53, 55, 61

Donkey, 5, 8, 30, 45, 49, 107, 159

Dor, 227

Doric origin, 68

Dôtân, 218

Dothan, 218

Doura, 278

Dove, Indian turtle-(turtur risorius), 33

Drake, Tyrwhitt, 87

Droppings, 41, 75, 128

Druses, 255, 292, 294, 295, 296

Durand, Père Germer, 62

Dyeing-sheds, 297

Eagles, 331

Ebal, Mount, 191, 192, 194, 201

Ebenezer, 220

Edinburgh Medical Mission, 263

Egypt, Lower, 58

El Aujeh, 344

El Bireh, 179, 180, 183

Elders, 253

El-Ghor, 328, 329, 331

El Hammâm, 316

Eli, 188

Elijah, 17, 171, 256, 266

— Fountain of, 14, 15

— hiding-place of, 15, 16

Elisha, 185, 204, 208, 275

El Lubban, 192

Emir Nūh Bey, 103, 139

Emperor, German, 212, 297

Emperor Heraclius, 85

Endor, 228, 269

En-gannim, 224

Engedi, 36

Ephesus, 63

Ephraim, 183, 187, 208

Epiphany, 13, 292

Epistle of an Arab Physician, 78

Er-Rashid, 88

Eryngo, 278

Escort, 5, 6, 95, 118, 138, 340

Esdraelon, 227, 228, 266

Es-Salt, 50, 145, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159

Essenes, 16

Es Sumrah, 344

Et Tâbigha, 284, 297

Et-tayyibeh, 187

Eusebius, 95, 235

Evil One, 4, 66

Excavation, 236, 238, 297, 316

— Austrian, 231

— German, 230, 231

Excavations, 215, 227

Ezekiel, 47

Ezra, 198

Ez-Zerka 126

Falcon, Lanner-, 99

Farnesiana, 22

Fauna, 11

Felis caligata, 32

Felis-mas, 253

Fellahin, 23, 24, 49, 80, 106, 119, 135, 140, 292, 293

Fennel, 278

Feral cat, 25

Fergusson, 83

Ferhad, 84

Ferns, 253

Ficus sycomorus, 14 (mulberry fig)

Figs, 17, 29, 39, 287

Fig-tree, 160, 187

Firearms, 213

Fish, 108, 286, 289, 290

Flax, 329

Flint arrow-head, 91

Flintlock, 213

Flora, 11, 12, 35, 43, 91, 98, 99, 203, 227, 228, 245, 252, 253, 273, 278, 288

Folklore, 186, 292

Fords, 21

Forests, 127, 149

Fortress, 158, 209, 211, 217, 227, 234, 238, 239, 316, 327

Forts, Roman, 68, 83, 94

Forum, 110, 129, 141, 142, 209, 216, 282

Fountain, Apostles', 8

— Elijah's, 14, 15

Foxes, 32 (canis niloticus, canis variegatus)

Franciscans, 61, 195, 226, 260, 262, 264, 265, 268, 270, 272, 275, 276, 289, 291, 297

Francolin, 33

Frenjy, the, 196, 201, 259, 280

Fruit, 125, 156, 170, 204, 228

Fruit, Dead Sea (calotropis procera), 36

Fulke, King, 310

Funeral, 121

Gabinius, 207

Gadara, 307, 308

Galingale, 253

Galilee, 126, 167, 220, 227, 228, 269, 281, 286

Gardens, 20, 204, 205, 217, 224, 225, 226, 252, 264, 288

Gazelle, 12, 32, 90, 93, 98, 128, 292

Genista, 253

Gennesaret, plain of, 285

Geraniums, 91, 254

Gerasimos, Patriarch, 60

Gerizim, Mount, 191, 192, 194, 202

— Temple of, 202

Germans, 215, 248

Gethsemane, Garden of, 8, 284

Ghassanides, 85, 129

Gibbon, 83

Gideon, 125, 266

Gilboa, 228, 237

Gilead, 127, 128, 145, 265, 315, 328

Giovanni of Frascati, Brother, 256

Gladioli, 253

Goats, 25, 56, 123

Goat's hair, 4, 293

Good Samaritan, Khan of, 6, 9, 176, 345

Gorge of brook Cherith, 15, 16, 17, 18, 146, 147, 159

Gothic cathedral, 207

Government, the, 195

Grakle, 17, 34

Grapes, 156, 158

Gravel limestone, 42

Graves, 119, 152, 221 (see also Wely)

Great Plain, 272

Greeks, 53, 199, 249, 260, 262

Greenstone, 42

Griffon-vulture, 99, 331

Grottoes, 101, 344

Grouse, sand, 33

Grove, Sir George, 198

Guelder-roses, 253

Guide, 51, 214, 323, 324, 326, 327

Guy de Lusignan, King, 279

Hadramat, 90

Haifa, 72, 244, 246, 247, 248, 252, 255, 256, 258, 259

Haj, 75, 99, 100, 175, 340, 342

Haji, 172

Haj road, 74

Hannah, 188

Haram, 28

Haroun-er-Raschid, 233

Harvest, 48

Haurân, 7, 85, 100, 111, 135

Hawkweeds, 332

Hawthorns, 253

Hayil, 89

Hebrides, Outer, 186, 295

Hebron, 177, 194, 222, 270, 303

Heesh, 157

Hêhl, 133, 136

Helena, 271, 275

Henna, 4

Heraclius, Emperor, 85

Herbs, balsamic, 278

Hermitages, 15, 18, 285

Hermon, 188, 191, 280, 281, 284, 306, 334

Herod, 13, 126, 207, 216, 281, 282, 285, 338, 343

— palace of, 14

Heshbon, 45, 47

Hierapolis, 84

High places, 68

Highwaymen, 49

Hill of the Cock (Jebel ed deek), 187

Hill—Tel'at ed-Dam, 9

Hills, 31, 43, 128, 147, 163, 191, 228, 265, 269, 310, 328

Hippodrome, 207, 209, 216, 316

"Historical Geography," 202, 204

Holofernes, 315

Hornstone, 253

Horses, 4, 6, 24

Hosea, 152, 223

Hospice, Franciscan, 283

— German Catholic Palæstina Verein, 287, 289, 291

— at Haifa, 248, 249

— of the Knights of St John, 181

— Nazareth, 261, 263

Hospital, Austrian, 269

— at Carmel, 256

— at Haifa, 248

— Nazareth, 263

— of the Templars, 195

— at Tiberias, 283, 303, 323

Hospitality, 51, 119, 131, 153, 156, 171, 172, 176, 255, 260, 287

Hospitallers, 279

Hotels, 20, 260, 283

Hûsh or Hûshi, 104

Hyacinths, 253

Hyæna, 12, 32, 151, 255

Hyrcanus, 54, 202, 207

Hypnotic suggestion, 221

Ibex, 32

Ibn Rashid, 89

Idol, 239

Ignatius, 276

Incense, Israelitish altar of, 233

Indian turtle-dove, 33 (turtur risorius)

Inn of the Apostles' Fountain, 8

— of the Good Samaritan, 9, 176

Inscription, 57, 70, 71, 275

Institute of British Architects, 84

Institutions, 186, 263

Invocation, 231

Ionic capitals, 142

Irises, 253

Isaac, 74, 202

Isaiah, 208

Ishmaelites, 127

Israel, 46, 189

Israelites, 54, 223, 224, 235

Issachar, 224

"Italian, the," 229, 237, 238

Itineraries, 95

Jabbok, 108, 116, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 146, 312, 334

Jachin, 239

Jackals, 11, 32, 151, 255

Jacob, 124, 125, 185, 192

Jael, 245

Jaffa, 45, 202, 270

Jahwe, 233

Jalûd, 310, 325

Jar, 85, 240, 271

Jaulân, 85, 104

Jeba, 217

Jebel es-Shech, 306, 334

Jebel Osha, 152, 173, 334

Jehonadab, 204

Jehu, 204, 216

Jenin, 203, 217, 224, 226, 227

Jerash, 105, 106, 118, 139, 145, 148, 210, 216, 301

Jerboa, 34, 331

Jeremiah, 47, 189

Jericho of crusading times, 14

Jericho, 8, 11, 13, 19, 20, 50, 127, 164, 175, 312, 344

— plain of, 12, 21

— road to, 5, 6

— Roman, 13, 14

Jericho-roses, 35 (anastatica)

Jeroboam, 185, 188

Jerome, St, 189, 208, 235, 276, 304

Jerusalem, 5, 11, 45, 102, 122, 175, 183, 194, 197, 303, 304

Jessamine, 252

Jezebel, 215, 216

Jezreel, 227, 310

Jifna, 185, 186, 192

Jisr el Mujamia, 307

Job or Joab, 123

Jochanan, Bishop, 317

John the Baptist, 171, 202, 208, 216

Jonah, 270

Jonquils, 245, 253

Jordan, 11, 13, 31, 32, 45, 56, 124, 126, 127, 145, 165, 167, 171, 220, 307, 308, 325, 329

— East, 90, 103, 120, 128, 257, 294, 312

— valley, 9, 21, 32, 35, 36, 265

Joseph, St, 264

Joseph, 192, 219

Josephus, 36, 207, 274, 285, 290, 303, 315

Joshua, 54, 188, 199, 314

Josiah, 235

Jotham, 223

Judah, 235

Judæa, 11, 12, 163, 328

Jujube-tree 21, 23, 37, 164 (zizyphus lotus)

— zizyphus spina Christi, 21

Julia Livia, 343

Juniper, 253

Justinian, 86, 195, 202

Kafr Sabt, 279

Kaimmakâm, 155

Kamnimotsk or Kakupschi, 103

Karâwa, 340

Karn Hattîn, 279

Karn Sartabeh, 340

Keats, 64

Keble, 286

Kedron, valley of, 8, 123

Keffeeye, 4

Kefr Kennâ, spring of, 270

Kerak, 53, 56, 169

Kerosene, 196, 197

Khalil, 30

Khan, 160, 180, 190, 224, 225, 278, 287, 300, 311

Khan of the Good Samaritan, 6, 9

Khans, Saracenic, 68

Kings, Three, 292, 294

Kingfisher, 332

Kinnerôt, 280

Kinnor (a lute), 280

Kirbet el-Herri, 68

Kishon, 235, 244, 245, 259

Klein, 71

Knights of St John, 181, 211

Kôkab el-Hawa, 310

Koziba, 16

Kubâtîyeh, 220, 222

Kumbaz, 166, 172

Lady, the, 2

Lagos, Ptolemy, 206

Lake of Galilee, 167, 284, 286, 289

Lagrange, Père, 62

"Land and the Book," 82

Language, 25, 51

Lanner-falcon, 99

Lapis-lazuli, 212

Larks, 99, 227, 331

Latin Patriarch, 51

Latins, 12, 52, 53, 199, 249, 260

Law, 196, 198

Lazarus, Castle of, 8

Lebanon, 255

Leeches, 8

Lehaf, 137, 312

Lejjun or Legio, 235, 236, 237, 242

Lemons, 3, 17, 252

Lepers, 195, 206, 226

Levi, 200

Libations, 240

Lightfoot, 274

Limestone, 10, 42, 43, 203, 253, 298

Linen, 329

Lintel, 56, 189

Lions, 32

Lizard, 43, 93, 98, 278, 331

Looms, 196

Lot, Shech, 10

Louis, St, 255, 271

Lower Egypt, 58

Lubban, 190, 192

Lupin, 254

Lusignan, King Guy de, 279

Lychnis, 254

Maccabees, 266

Machærus, 216

Madaba, 32, 38, 46, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 62, 95, 102, 138, 139, 148, 287, 291

Magdala, 285, 286, 301

Magnesium, 9

Maiden-hair, 253, 260

Maimonides, 304

Maize, 278

"Majnoon," 162

Makhrûd, 334

Maktoub, 37

Mâlih, 334

Manasseh, 198, 232, 235

Mandrakes, 203, 253

Manuscripts, 200

Map, mosaic, of Madaba, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63

Marble, 56, 95, 264, 298

Mares, 25, 27, 291

Margaret of Provence, 271

Margaret, St, 255

Mariamne, 216

Marl, 21

Marriage, 13, 52

Martyrs, 189, 190

Masada, 36

Mastaba, 146

Maundeville, Sir John, 178, 247, 258, 277

Maundrell, Henry, 194

Mausoleum, 158

Mezeba, 239

Meadow of Sinking In (Merj-el-Gharak), 218

Measurement (by time), 31

Mecca, 72, 74, 75, 172

Medal, 196

Mediterranean, 32, 202, 204, 280

Megiddo, 227, 232, 235, 236, 259

Meidân, 76

Mejdel, 286

Melissa officinalis, 128

Mémoire, by Mons. Clermont-Ganneau, 59

Menhirs, 239

Merj-el-Gharak, 218

Mesha, 54

Meshalcha, Bedu, 312, 325

Michaud, 265, 271

Midianites, 125, 219

Milestones, 45

Mill, 71, 124, 148, 235, 297

Minaret, 226, 246, 281

Minyeh, Khan, 287, 300

Mishna, 304

Missionaries, 186, 249, 289

Missions, Scottish and American, 303

— medical, 249, 263, 287

— Jerusalem and the East, 249

Moab, 11, 22, 43, 47, 116, 117, 126, 128, 173, 202, 208

Moabite sparrow, 34

Moabite stone, 68, 71

Moabites, 54

Monastery, 15, 16, 85, 256

Monks, Greek, 16, 59

Monogamy, 56

Monograph, by Père Séjourné, 53

— by Schumacher, 55, 140

— by Père Lagrange and Père Cléopas

Mongols, 158

Monolith, 189, 214

Monument, burial, 46, 72, 130

"Le Mont Thabor: Notices Historiques et Descriptives," 273

Morality, 56

Moravians, German, 195

Mosaics, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 271, 275

Moses, 42, 44, 46, 199, 222

Mosque, 70, 110, 172, 189, 195, 207, 210, 255

Mshatta, or Mashita, or Meshita, 71, 79, 80, 84, 93, 98, 128

Mount Ebal, 191, 192, 194, 201

Mount Gerizim, 191, 192, 194, 202

— Gilboa, 228, 237

— of Moab, 202

— Nebo, 42, 44, 45

— of Olives, 8, 164

— of Precipitation, 269

— Scopas, 179

Mountain of the Shech, 306

Mountains of Es-Salt, 157

— Quarantana, 15

Mourner, 121

Muchtar, 106, 111

Mudir, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 310, 311, 313, 323, 324

Mulberry fig, 14

Mulberry-trees, 222

Mujedda, 236

Mukaris, 3

Muquṭṭa, 235

Muscari, 35

Museum, 257

Music, 96, 295

Mutesarrif, 135

Mykenæan pottery, 234

Myrrh, 127

Myrtle, 253

Naaman, 204

Nabateans, 54

Nablûs, 179, 183, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199, 202, 217, 219, 312

Nahallal, 272

Nain, 228, 269

Napoleon, 256

Narghile, 30

Nathaniel, 272

Nawa, 106

Naumachia, 143

Nazareth, 228, 258, 260, 261, 262, 266

Nebk, 21

Nebo, Mount, 42, 44, 45

Negro, 20, 171, 338, 339

Nets, 289

Nightingale, 34

Nile, 84, 125, 246

Nimr, 96, 118

Notitia, Roman, 69, 95

Notre Dame d'Amerique, 260

Nysa, 315

Oaks, 11, 105, 120, 149, 150, 157, 204, 222, 223, 253, 259

Obadiah, 208

Odeum, 109

Officials, 24, 248

Oleander, 23, 35, 123, 126, 286, 306, 332

Oliphant, Hans, 248

Oliphant, Laurence, 244

Olives, 148, 187, 204

Olives, Mount of, 8

Omar, 312

Omri, 54, 206

Orabs, 17

Orange, 19, 20, 127, 252

Orchis, 253

Origen, 276

Ornithogalums, 332

Orphanage of Dames de Nazareth, 262

— English, 263

— Salesian Fathers, 260

Oshr, 36

Oxen, 25, 104

Palace, 86, 87, 88, 142, 215

Palace of Herod, 14, 207, 282

Palestine, 58, 63, 219

— Eastern, 126, 129

— Exploration Fund, 62, 71, 87

Palmer, Paul, 62

Palms, 11, 13, 127, 181, 224, 226, 246, 252, 281, 284, 306

Panther, 255

Pariah dog, 25

Partridge, 33

— (Hey's) ammoperdix heyi, 33

— (Greek) caccabis saxatilis, 33

Pasha, the, 95

— of Acre, 217, 256

— of Damascus, 156

Passover, The, 198, 200

Patriarch, Gerasimos, 60

— Greek, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62

— Latin, 51, 155

Patriarchate in Jerusalem, 193, 195

Paul, St, 268

Paula, 271, 276

Peacock, Thomas Love, 112

Pears, 204

Pella, 306, 312, 326

Pentateuch, 199

Peræa, 7, 125, 126

Periwinkle, 35, 253

Père Cléopas, 58, 60, 61, 62

Père Germer Durand, 62

Père Séjourné, 53, 55, 57

Père Vincent, 61

Persian art, 81

Persian Gulf, 76

— king, 83

Personage, the Royal, 2, 40

Peter, St, 276

Phasælis, 342, 343

Philadelphia, 116

Phinehas, 198

Phœnicians, 246

Piasters, 31, 50, 52, 157, 337

Piedmontese, 51

Pigeons, 33

— rock, 18

Pilasters, 87, 95

Pilgrims, 13, 14, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 256, 263, 298

Pillar, 120, 239

Pines, 11, 105, 150

Pipes, native, 5, 40

Pistachios, 171

Plague, 75

Plain of Esdraelon or Jezreel, 227, 228

— of Sharon, 228

— of Gennesaret, 285

— of El-Makhna, 191

Plateau, 64, 126

— of Ard 'Abdallah, 46

— of Ard el Hammâ, 280

Plough, 45, 119, 191, 221, 227

Plovers, 227

Poem, 66

Poet, 96, 118

Polygamy, 56

Pomegranate, 253

Pompey, 207, 315

Pool, 14, 55, 205

Poor Clares, 260

Poplars, 223, 332

Population, 23, 107, 155, 195, 249

Potteries, 297

Pottery, 234

Presbytery, 51, 53, 148, 272

Pride of India, 311

Priest, high, 200

— Byzantine, 63

— Greek, 58, 180

— parish, 51, 55, 56, 155, 157

Priests, 51, 52

"Primitive Semitic Religion To-Day," 223

Professor, the, 2

Prophet, the, 74, 125, 189

Prophets, Jewish, 190, 256

Propylæa, 141, 142

Proscenium, 142

Psalms, 116, 117

Pseudo-platanus, 14

Ptolomais, 247

Ptolemy Lagos, 207

Ptolemy Philadelphus, 116

Pudding-stone, 42

Quakers, 186

Quarantana mountain, 15

Quarantine, 2, 31, 160, 165, 169

Quercus ægilops, 149

Rab Jochanan Ben Sakai, 304

Rabbath Ammân, 116

Rabbi Akiba, 304

— Meîr, 304

Rags, 220, 228

Rahab, 15

Rahwân, 5, 27

Railway, 72, 73, 88, 99, 108, 211, 229, 236, 246, 249, 307, 308

Raisins, 29, 156, 158

Rakkath, 282

Ramah, 179

Ramleh, 104, 189

Ranunculus, 254

Rat, 125

Ravens, 17, 331

Raven, wedge-tailed (corvus affinis), 33

Rebecca, 185

Rechab, 205

Recueil d'Archéologie Orientale, 59

Red Sea, 76

Reservoirs, 55, 69, 185, 316

"Rischân" or "Rischi," 292

Road, 44, 67, 74, 83, 95, 118, 141, 183, 186

Robinson, 235

Rocks, 42, 43, 253

Rock garden, 252

— rose, 253

— pigeons, 18

Rolls of the Law, 196

Roman Catholics, 12, 196

— colonies, 83, 99

— Arabia, 69

— forts, 68, 83, 94

— forum, 110

— marches, 85

— Notitia, 69

— province, 86

— remains, 70, 119, 235, 297, 308, 316

— road, 44, 67, 83, 95, 118, 125, 141, 144

— soldiers, 47

— tiles, 87

— toparchies, 186

Rooks, 191, 227

Roots, 149

Rosaries, 157

Rose bushes, 225, 288

Roses, Jericho-(anastatica), 36

Rotunda, 141, 142

Ruins, 53, 54, 67, 68, 71, 106, 108, 109, 140, 141, 148, 181, 186, 207, 247, 273, 275, 278, 297, 298, 338, 340

Sa'b-el-Meshak, 6

Sacrifice, 91, 250, 319

Sadowi, 27, 28, 161, 162, 182, 258, 325, 335, 342, 343

Sæwulf, 302

Safsaf, 22

Saint, 221, 223, 318

Saint Chariton, 15

— Moslem, 120, 189

— Old Testament, 220

Saladdin, 158

Salesians, 260, 262

Salisbury, Bishop of (1192), 265

Sallah ed-din, 279, 287, 310, 315

Salome, 343

Salt, 10, 14, 21

Saltana, 156

Samaria, 191, 203, 204, 206, 219, 228, 328

Samaritan, Good, Khan of, 6, 9, 176, 345

Samuel, 188

Samovar, 136, 139

Samaritans, 198, 199, 201, 226

Sanatorium, 248

Sand-grouse, 33

Sand-stone, 42, 344

Sanhedrin, 304

Sandwort, 43

Sanīye, 135

Sânûr, 217

Sâra, 158

Saracens, 85

Saracenic khans, 68

Sarcophagi, 71, 101, 110, 119, 216, 270, 308

Sargon, 315

— bas-reliefs, 84

Sassanian dynasty, 84

Saul, 266, 314

Saxicola libanotica, 331

Scarabs, 234

Schools, 195, 196, 226, 262, 263, 305

Schumacher, 55, 56, 72, 90, 96, 100, 104, 135, 140, 249, 257, 312

Scopas, Mount, 179

Scrolls of the Law, 198

Sculpture, 70, 71, 81, 142, 189, 211, 214, 316

Scythopolis, 315

Sea-birds, 246

Sea, Dead, 9, 10, 17, 32

Seal, 196, 234, 240

Sebaste, 203, 205, 207, 210, 211, 213, 215

Sect, esoteric, 16

Sedge-grass, 331

Seetzen, 111

Séjourné, Père, 53, 55, 57

Selim Effendi Khuri, 252

Sellin, Doctor, 233

Semûniyeh, 259

Sepulchre, Holy, 195

Serai, 224, 313, 318, 327, 337, 338

Sesame, 278

Settlements, Greek, 12

— Russian, 12

— Samaritan, 196, 197

Seyal, 22

Sharon, 104, 228, 255

Shech, 51, 56, 71, 74, 120, 209, 211, 291, 300, 319, 330

Shech Abdallah, 46

Shech Goblan, 118

Shech Lot, 10

Shech Shadli, 313

Shech Muhammed, 100

Shechem, 194, 219

Shelley, 93

Shiloh, 188, 189, 194

Shiraz, 84

Shireen, 84

Shop, curiosity, 9

Shrine, 223

Shunem, 269

Sidr, 21

Silenæ, 35

Simon Stock, St, 257

Singing, 96, 97, 99, 166

Sisera, 245

Sisters of Charity, 263

— of St Joseph, 263

— of the Rosary, 155

Skylarks, 227

Smith, Prof. G. A., 72, 202, 204, 235

Smyrna, 63

Snails, land-, 99

Soap, 195

Soapwort, 43

Sodom, apple of, 36

Sœurs de Charité, 195

Solanum sanctum, 36

Soldiers, Circassian, 90, 135

— Egyptian, 12

— Jewish, 285

— Roman, 47

Solomon, 188, 235, 239

Sparrows, 11, 34, 227

Sportsmen, 2

Spring, 158, 181, 185, 190, 205, 270, 279

Springs, hot, 45, 297, 308

Squills, 35, 253

Stallions, 6, 24

Star of Bethlehem, 253

Starlings, 11, 227

Statues, 142

Stocks, 254, 332

Stones, 220, 318

Stone of Abraham, 177

Stone circle, 45, 46, 185

Stone, Moabite, 54, 68, 71

Storks, 332

Sugar-cane, 329

Suggestion, hypnotic, 221

"Sultana," 156

Sultan's Spring, 14, 15

Sumach, 156

Sun-bird, cinnyris oseæ, 34, 254

Superstitions, 66, 77, 298

Swallows, 17, 93, 125, 316

Sycaminium, 247

Sycomore, 14

Synagogue, 200, 298, 303

Syrians, 206

Syria, 14, 30, 80, 105, 125, 246, 250

Szaltese, 156

Taanak, 227, 229, 232, 233, 235, 236

Tabor, 224, 229, 237, 266, 274, 277

Talmud, 304, 340

Tamarisk, 23, 34, 253, 332

Tank, 69, 70

Tanneries, 297

Tarafah, 66

Tarbush, 24, 293, 318

Taricheæ, 286 (see Magdala)

Tax, road, 45

— war, 50

— Tel'at ed-Dam, 9

Taxes, general, 106, 135

— horse, 49

Tell, 203, 214, 229, 232, 301, 316, 341

— Hûm, 297

— el Matâba, 45

— el-Mutesellim, 235, 236, 237, 238

Templars, 195, 259, 279

Temple, 68, 129, 141, 142, 185, 199, 202, 207, 209, 239, 314

Temptation, 15

Terebinth, 150, 157, 219, 223

Teskerys (local passports), 165, 193

Tetanus, 9

Tetrapylon, 141, 142

Tfaddalu, 111

Theatre, 109, 129, 141, 142, 143, 207, 209, 235

Thermæ, 106, 110

Thieves, 5

Thistles, 23

Thompson, 82

Thorns, 21, 23, 150

Thothmes III., 314

Three Kings, the, 292, 294

Tiberias, 13, 259, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 323

Tiglath-pileser, 315

Tithes, 200

Tobacco, 5, 30, 40, 41, 55, 157, 294, 338

Tomb of 'Abdallah, 46

— of Abdel Azziz en-Nimr Shech Adwân, 118, 119

— of Abu Obeidah Ibn el Jerrâh, 312

— of Jonah, 270

— of Joseph, 192

Tombs, 110, 119, 158, 187, 192, 239, 285, 304, 317, 318

Tombak, 30

Tortilis, 22

Tortoises, 278

Town of Nablûs (see Nablûs)

— of ancient Jericho, 15

Towns in ruins, 67, 68, 106, 141, 301

Traditions, 298

Tradition, re church at el Bireh, 181

— re Elijah's Fountain, 14

— re the horse of Solomon, 299

— re St John Baptist, 208

— re ten lepers, 226

— re the Miracle of turning Water into Wine, 270

— re Nathaniel, 272

— re Sermon on the Mount, 279

— re workshop of St Joseph, 264

Trajan, 129

Transfiguration, the, 273, 275

Tree (sacred), 190, 220, 221, 222, 223, 227

Trees, 21, 22, 23, 149, 150, 204, 253, 259, 306, 311

Tristram, 17, 36, 42, 67, 70, 71, 79, 80, 94, 289, 344

Troughs, stone, 119

Turtur risorius, 33

Turban, 293

Turcomans, 24, 146

Turtle-dove, Indian, 33 (turtur risorius)

Um el-Kuseir, 67, 68

Um er-Resâs, 68

Um Weleed, 67, 68

Umshita, 79

University, 303

Valerian, 254

Valley, Dead Sea, 43

— Jezreel, 310

— Jordan, 9, 36

— Kedron, 8

— of the Lubban, 190

— of Sa'b-el-Meshak, 6

Vegetation, tropical, 11, 306

Vespasian, 329

Village of Abu-dis, 5

— of Ammân (see Ammân)

— of Bir es Zet, 185

— of Et-tayyibeh, 187

— of Gath-Hepher, 270

— of Jenin, 203, 217, 224, 227

— of Jerash, 130, 131

— of Jifna, 185, 186

— of Kafr Sabt, 279

— of Kubâtîyeh, 220, 222

— of Madaba, 53

— of Mastaba, 146

— of Er-Rummâna, 146

— of Sebaste, 213

— of Seilun, 188

— of Yâfâ, 260

Villages of Bedu, 67

— of Circassians, 106

Vincent, Père, 61

Vineyard, 252

Vogüe, M. de, 211

Vulture, 99, 331, 341

Wadi Salihi, 147

Wady, 122, 334

— el Abyad, 341

— Faria, 334, 335, 339

— Fesail, 341

— el-Hamman, 119

— Heshban, 36, 47

— el-Hor, 149

— Kelt, 15

— Mâlih, 334

— el-Mastaba, 146

— Osha, 157

— er-Rumemin, 148

— er-Rumman, 122

— Shaib, 159 (see also 160)

— Umm Rabi, 146

Wages, 23

Warren, Sir Charles, 71

Water, 14, 16, 55, 74, 108, 122, 126, 144, 168, 194

— of Dead Sea, 9

— Roman system, 14, 69

— bottles, 44

Waterfall, 147, 297, 332

Water-pipe, 30, 112, 114, 330

Watka, 118, 119

Weapons, 25, 55

Wedge-tailed raven (corvus affinis), 33

Well of Jacob, 192, 202

Well of Nazareth, 265

— of Tiberias, 285

Welys, 120, 121, 152, 160, 202, 221, 317, 318

Willibald, 271, 276

Willow, 22, 332 (safsaf)

Wine, 252, 271, 272, 294, 311

Wolf, 33

Women, 205

Wool, 195

Wordsworth, 20, 116, 323

Wormwood, 99 (artemesium)

Wren, long-tailed, 254 (drymæca gracilis)

Yafa, 260

Yakubi, 141

Yakut, 140

Yarmuk, 126, 127, 307

Yemen, 85

Yujûz, 119

Zadam, 71

Zakkum, 23

Zebedee, 260

Zebîb, 68

Ziza, 69, 71

Zizyphus lotus, 21, 23, 164

Zizyphus spina Christi, 21

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