Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-16
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/ his whip on the man to whom we "era
talking, and some others, he drove
everybody away, and left us alone SIT
ting by the side of the well.
The dress OF the people In this village
~ somewhat different, and from what 1
can find out they are Nusairiyeh. al
though Elder Booth on asking the man
whose room we rented his religion, he
stated he was an Islam
The Nugariyeh who lnhabit the So
called Nusairiyeh mountains (the
northern continuation OF Lebanon) and
who have some villages on this side OF
the Orontes river, are sect whose re-
lgion is a mixture Of Fire Worship, Mo-
hammedanlsm and Christianity. They
pray night and morning IN the direction
OF the sun. and not facing towards
Mecca as the Mohanlmedans do, they
believe in "a Trinity and partake of a
sacrament together Though this part
of the land, and from here to the coast
has been their home for about thou
sand years past, they originally came
from the nelghborhood OF the Eu-
pirates.
The Protestants had at one time
quite a number Of schools among them,
GA was, think, the number given me
by Presbyterian missionary but the
Turkish government has now closed
them down, The next day stIl contln,
ulng to see rock ruins aud tomb cham.
bers, about noon We came to the Arab
village OF Shakhun (where our man
with the horse and bedding would ar
rive at night and whore we could see
the river Orontes In the distance.
Shakhun Is large village. treeless.
Of neckless beer bottle shaped huts. the
only rock buildings being quite a
large, well constructed khan and some
rock cisterns Of perhaps an acre In ex-
tent.
On leaving here, climbing a hill, a
large crowd followed us, and the wo-
men from the village well perhaps fifty
In number (the clsterns being dried up
at this time of the year, also came run.
Mus up to see the strange sight Of men
riding on wheels, just outside the VII
lage some of the crowd, could not re-
sist the temptation 20 throw rocks at
us, which came rather furIously | was
hit with a rock on the leg, and was
also struck on the head with a
piece of the hard compressed fuel duff
falo chlps) used in this treeless district.
while Elder Herman was also struck
rather severely on the leg with rock.
hnd poo'n, Mno 1 'hlhh must nave
, Ne eA.iel ieiice Us Dase Dall
.cror,d , u'1'i.oIil'eu ahu lel INTO the
thrao h,,ns.oI n esNinialeu az ABOUT 1
startinc ~ 49,, VII 'oths' me crowd
bcino o,i,, az III Wy sIouilu now
soon out ~ sisb, Iaise' we were
The oountry nov, s,a,,nh .. -.
Ter and tbo,,eh aau"is ~ " looN oe'-
,n,rro,,oa go w
miles from Sba,yhur anu apoui tniry
treeless ana ebr,hIsss u'st'iy ~.
orontes river nesr ua,,,o o' ,,, W lne
orchards AMI fer,tle irrie, "a lelse
under n bigh stnta % c,,i st'ssu s"'uens
IN he soen s,a.e ~ vult'Vatloh' were
the eve TO behold and Co. so,,m w.
we stood taking in H. haon SVn"e 'inhe
green coloring and connnr,n 4, tms
what we had seen Tor tha 20, | ,a,,,
days. u.s. AZ"
A few miles before raoohtno ~.
riding a short distance heh,ne5 MA MIA
Booth and Herman ana carni,,,
short summit. on turn NJ tha roo ~
front of me saw vo"nn V's, -,
iourishing largo revai'as ma,
me- and yelling in ara,,io
lid moi know Sho, ao'S
I, he did not have The anneoranea VI
professional robber the rohbers v,ho
make a business OF n belng ,no"Gv
,aucassians and Turkomans and ~
his district Bedouin Arabs o,y ."
'yer, turned into a field and ,bornS :,
vas rather hard rldIne circ,od rs,,os
md found Elders Booth ana uar,n ,o.nu
he foot Of the hin with hsIf ga az
men and woman Tho trnrh,a uVeen ecu
hat the horse ON which he yo mes
mans wife and child wore r,a,, souns
'ecome scared and thev had noa nv