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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 215
My residence at the vice-consul's was excessively dis-
agreeable. His house consisted of four very small rooms,
round a court, to which was an ascent by a narrow flight of
steps from the street. One of them served as a kitchen, two
as sleeping rooms, the fourth for lumber, which I obtained
for my servant. A large recess, open to the court, was used
for a dining-room in the heat of the day ; the evening meal
was taken in the court.
My host was a respectable smooth-tongued man of fifty,
who acted as agent to the Prince of the Druzes, whose ex-
ample he had latelj7 followed of cultivating a long beard, by
allowing his own to grow. He was a considerable merchant
of the place, kept a warehouse on the sea-shore, which was
under the charge of his eldest son, a young man of twenty
years of age. His wife was a woman of nearly six foot high,
and had been very handsome; the family besides consisted
of three or four dirty children, a female servant from the
mountain in the costume of her race, her child, an inter-
preter of the consulate under the name of Chancellor, and a
son of one of the censales, who attached himself to me with-
out ceremony on my first landing. I was by turns infested,
during my stay at Beirutte, by all the above mentioned
people. Amongst the female part of the establishment, I
was called the " Frank v;" plagued to death to make pre-
sents, and promises to send others;; whilst the vice-consul
My residence at the vice-consul's was excessively dis-
agreeable. His house consisted of four very small rooms,
round a court, to which was an ascent by a narrow flight of
steps from the street. One of them served as a kitchen, two
as sleeping rooms, the fourth for lumber, which I obtained
for my servant. A large recess, open to the court, was used
for a dining-room in the heat of the day ; the evening meal
was taken in the court.
My host was a respectable smooth-tongued man of fifty,
who acted as agent to the Prince of the Druzes, whose ex-
ample he had latelj7 followed of cultivating a long beard, by
allowing his own to grow. He was a considerable merchant
of the place, kept a warehouse on the sea-shore, which was
under the charge of his eldest son, a young man of twenty
years of age. His wife was a woman of nearly six foot high,
and had been very handsome; the family besides consisted
of three or four dirty children, a female servant from the
mountain in the costume of her race, her child, an inter-
preter of the consulate under the name of Chancellor, and a
son of one of the censales, who attached himself to me with-
out ceremony on my first landing. I was by turns infested,
during my stay at Beirutte, by all the above mentioned
people. Amongst the female part of the establishment, I
was called the " Frank v;" plagued to death to make pre-
sents, and promises to send others;; whilst the vice-consul