Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . and he sent a janissary to conduct me to the house of a Samaritan, awriter to the government, where I was received, fed, and lodged better thanin any other place in the Holy Land, always excepting the abodes of thosesuffering martyrs the Terra Santa monks.* Nablous.—The Samaritans. CHAPTER XXX. Sebaste. Plain of Palestine. Soil and Husbandry Nablous is the Arabic form of the Greek Neapolis, and is one of the fewinstances in which the names imposed by foreign
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . and he sent a janissary to conduct me to the house of a Samaritan, awriter to the government, where I was received, fed, and lodged better thanin any other place in the Holy Land, always excepting the abodes of thosesuffering martyrs the Terra Santa monks.* Nablous.—The Samaritans. CHAPTER XXX. Sebaste. Plain of Palestine. Soil and Husbandry Nablous is the Arabic form of the Greek Neapolis, and is one of the fewinstances in which the names imposed by foreign conquerors have supersededthe ancient nomenclature. The inhabitants of this mountain district exhibitmany physical and moral traits distinguishing them from the other Syriantribes. They bear the impress of their Greek ancestry ; but Perrier remarksthat to the turbulence and other bad qualities inherited from them, theNablousians superadd the vices of the Arabs. The following anecdote illus-trates their fierce party spirit. In 1834, some children of the village of Beit- * Stephens. Robinson. Olin. Monro. 423. Inhabitants of Nablous. el-Ma amused themselves with gathering anemonies, and plucking and scat-tering the bright leaves of the flowers. As the relations of these childrenwere known to be of the Yesmenifaction, a mob of Nablousians of theKess party immediately assembled inarms, vowing vengeance for this socalled insult to their adopted colourand emblem. Several villages weresacked, and a hundred and thirtyindividuals lost their lives in conse-quence of this frivolous quarrel. The city of Nablous is long andnarrow, stretching close along base of Mount Gerizim. In theruggedness and narrowness of itsways, it resembles Jerusalem andother Syrian towns, but there is awelcome appearance of bustle andlife in its streets; the sound of thesilk-wheel and loom is heard frommany of its houses, mingling withthat best of music in an Eastern cli-mate, the rush of many s
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