then introduced to the female members of the household, who “deported themselves with a dignity and grace which would have done credit to the nobility of Europe.” “On the 8th of June we visited the mansion of Raphael, the chief of the Farhis. On our arrival we were received by a Jew, who humbly described himself to us as the ‘worthless Jacob Peretz,’ a quondam tutor to the children of the great man, and who in acknowledgment of his services is, with his whole family, retained as part of his household, which, he informed us, consists of from between sixty to seventy souls.” This establishment was even grander than that which we visited yesterday.... Mr. Graham expressed his doubts whether those in our own Royal palaces are superior to them. He then gives particulars of the principal apartments and reproduces a _Hebrew_ inscription with an English translation (of his own). Of special interest is Mr. Wilson’s description of the head of the family, Raphael, the Nasi of the Damascus Jews, an old man who was at that time seriously indisposed, but received him and his friend with great kindness, and took them to his library, which was very large. ¹ Land of the Bible. _Ibid._, _pp._ 330‒341. In 1840, during the riots following the accusation against the Jews, Raphael and his sons suffered very severely. Raphael died very soon after Wilson’s visit. This was the end of this Jewish family, whose history is bound up with the history of Palestine and Bonaparte’s expedition. They have a twofold claim upon our attention, first as eminent Jewish statesmen, and secondly as Palestinian martyrs. CHAPTER XIV. TWO _JERUSALEM RABBIS_ _Rabbi_ Moses Mordecai Joseph Meyuchas――The Spanish Jewish traditions――_Rabbi_ Israel Jacob Algazi――The importance of the Jewish settlement in Palestine――Zionist aspirations. TO obtain an idea of the views and aspirations of the Jews of Palestine in that period we may glance at two _Hahamim_ of _Jerusalem_――Moses Mordecai Joseph Meyuchas and Israel Jacob Algazi.