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CHAPTER 11
ALEPPO TO THE EUPHRATES, BIREDjiR AND BEIRUT
/ \N November 29th we started eastward from Aleppo on a well-beaten road. We
^ / passed several long dies of camels, each stately beast fastened by a rope to the
one next ahead of him. There were also many peasants riding donkeys or wearily
trudging toward the great city. Villages are dotted here and there over the desolate
country, which extends as far as the Euphrates, but they diminish in number as one
goes east. The houses are built of the customary sun-dried bricks covered with a
Murran, a village about 13 miles K. of Haleb.
mud plaster, and are mostly four-square with hat roofs. It was here, however, that
we noted the greatest number of dwellings with conical roofs, to which reference has
already been maded Many of these have square bases to support the roofs, but some
are mere huts with the cone rising directly from the ground. There were also many
Bedawin encampments, large and small, along the way.
In the afternoon we saw in the distance toward the southeast the great salt lake,
is-Sabkhah. Late in the day we left the good road to il-Bab and headed toward
Tedif. It took an hour and a half to cover this last stage of about five miles, and it
became dark long before our arrival. It was no easy matter to follow the rough,
stony path after nightfall and without a guide, but we finally came upon the place
chosen for the encampment and the tents were successfully pitched by lamp-light.
1 See pp. 26, 39 and 91.
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ALEPPO TO THE EUPHRATES, BIREDjiR AND BEIRUT
/ \N November 29th we started eastward from Aleppo on a well-beaten road. We
^ / passed several long dies of camels, each stately beast fastened by a rope to the
one next ahead of him. There were also many peasants riding donkeys or wearily
trudging toward the great city. Villages are dotted here and there over the desolate
country, which extends as far as the Euphrates, but they diminish in number as one
goes east. The houses are built of the customary sun-dried bricks covered with a
Murran, a village about 13 miles K. of Haleb.
mud plaster, and are mostly four-square with hat roofs. It was here, however, that
we noted the greatest number of dwellings with conical roofs, to which reference has
already been maded Many of these have square bases to support the roofs, but some
are mere huts with the cone rising directly from the ground. There were also many
Bedawin encampments, large and small, along the way.
In the afternoon we saw in the distance toward the southeast the great salt lake,
is-Sabkhah. Late in the day we left the good road to il-Bab and headed toward
Tedif. It took an hour and a half to cover this last stage of about five miles, and it
became dark long before our arrival. It was no easy matter to follow the rough,
stony path after nightfall and without a guide, but we finally came upon the place
chosen for the encampment and the tents were successfully pitched by lamp-light.
1 See pp. 26, 39 and 91.
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