E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Million Book Project (http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Million Book Project. See http://www.archive.org/details/OrientalEncounters +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been | | preserved. Inconsistent spellings of Arabic terms have been | | preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ ORIENTAL ENCOUNTERS Palestine And Syria (1894-5-6) by MARMADUKE PICKTHALL London: 48 Pall Mall W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Melbourne Auckland Copyright 1918 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE. INTRODUCTION 1 I. RASHID THE FAIR 11 II. A MOUNTAIN GARRISON 20 III. THE RHINOCEROS WHIP 28 IV. THE COURTEOUS JUDGE 36 V. NAWADIR 45 VI. NAWADIR (_continued_) 54 VII. THE SACK WHICH CLANKED 68 VIII. POLICE WORK 77 IX. MY COUNTRYMAN 87 X. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 96 XI. THE KNIGHT ERRANT 106 XII. THE FANATIC 117 XIII. RASHID'S REVENGE 125 XIV. THE HANGING DOG 134 XV. TIGERS 142 XVI. PRIDE AND A FALL 151 XVII. TRAGEDY 161 XVIII. BASTIRMA 171 XIX. THE ARTIST-DRAGOMAN 181 XX. LOVE AND THE PATRIARCH 188 XXI. THE UNPOPULAR LANDOWNER 198 XXII. THE CAIMMACAM 209 XXIII. CONCERNING BRIBES 218 XXIV. THE BATTLEFIELD 226 XXV. MURDERERS 237