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HOLY LAND, AJSTD CYPRUS. 221
Having advanced for about two hours, we refreshed at a
well, called Ain-el-Sabr; where a cottage served as an inn,
whose owner offered refreshments to us. We took coffee,
fruit, eggs, cheese, and becca ficas, i. e. ortolans, under the
shade of a wide spreading Sindian tree. A cup of coffee
was thrown at my feet, as a token of respect, by the keeper
of the inn, for which an additional present was expected in
return. We again proceeded up the mountain, striking off
scribe the state of obedience of the Maronites to the pope*. Dandini, p. 291,
mentions the dress of Maronite women, but not their present costume.
* Dandini, p. '..'89, in Pinkerton's 10th vol. speaking of the Maronites, says, " the Maronites
will not sutler the Turks to live amongst them, although they he in all the rest of Syria, so that
you cannot see one there. They are beholden to it to the great care of their deacons, who spare
neither their nurses nor their lives to that purpose. There live, therefore, upon the mountains no
other than the Christians, which they call Maronites, who have taken their name from a certain
abbot called Maron, whom they sent to Rome to the pope, in the time that all the East was
separated from the holy see, and divided it into divers sects. This abbot retired from thence with
the title of Patriarch over them, who lived firm and constant in their faithf."
f Yolney, page 8, vol. ii. English translation, says, " Towards the end of the Cth age of the
church, a hermit of the name of Maroun lived on the banks of the Orontes, who, by his fasting,
his solitary mode of life, and his austerities, became much respected by the neighbouring people.
It seems, that in the disputes which at that time arose between Rome and Constantinople, he
employed his credit in favour of the western Christians; from him came the Maronites J."
I They still acknowledge the pope; and their only difference from the western Roman Catholics
is, that their Missal is in Arabic. The mountain of Libanon affords a refuge to all the East who
wish to profess their religion without restraint.
Having advanced for about two hours, we refreshed at a
well, called Ain-el-Sabr; where a cottage served as an inn,
whose owner offered refreshments to us. We took coffee,
fruit, eggs, cheese, and becca ficas, i. e. ortolans, under the
shade of a wide spreading Sindian tree. A cup of coffee
was thrown at my feet, as a token of respect, by the keeper
of the inn, for which an additional present was expected in
return. We again proceeded up the mountain, striking off
scribe the state of obedience of the Maronites to the pope*. Dandini, p. 291,
mentions the dress of Maronite women, but not their present costume.
* Dandini, p. '..'89, in Pinkerton's 10th vol. speaking of the Maronites, says, " the Maronites
will not sutler the Turks to live amongst them, although they he in all the rest of Syria, so that
you cannot see one there. They are beholden to it to the great care of their deacons, who spare
neither their nurses nor their lives to that purpose. There live, therefore, upon the mountains no
other than the Christians, which they call Maronites, who have taken their name from a certain
abbot called Maron, whom they sent to Rome to the pope, in the time that all the East was
separated from the holy see, and divided it into divers sects. This abbot retired from thence with
the title of Patriarch over them, who lived firm and constant in their faithf."
f Yolney, page 8, vol. ii. English translation, says, " Towards the end of the Cth age of the
church, a hermit of the name of Maroun lived on the banks of the Orontes, who, by his fasting,
his solitary mode of life, and his austerities, became much respected by the neighbouring people.
It seems, that in the disputes which at that time arose between Rome and Constantinople, he
employed his credit in favour of the western Christians; from him came the Maronites J."
I They still acknowledge the pope; and their only difference from the western Roman Catholics
is, that their Missal is in Arabic. The mountain of Libanon affords a refuge to all the East who
wish to profess their religion without restraint.