. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. te and yellow tinted buildings, red-tiledroofs, and a background of green groves and orchardsinterspersed with white villas, gave the city an ap-pearance of newness. The whole scene, with the snow-capped Mountains of Lebanon beyond, presented abeautiful picture to the eye. Beyrout has a population of 120,000, and is a pros-perous, growing city, said one of the managers of thetour. It is a centre of missionary work, and hasAmerican and German colleges. The old streets arenarrow, as are all old streets in Eastern towns; butthey are cle
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. te and yellow tinted buildings, red-tiledroofs, and a background of green groves and orchardsinterspersed with white villas, gave the city an ap-pearance of newness. The whole scene, with the snow-capped Mountains of Lebanon beyond, presented abeautiful picture to the eye. Beyrout has a population of 120,000, and is a pros-perous, growing city, said one of the managers of thetour. It is a centre of missionary work, and hasAmerican and German colleges. The old streets arenarrow, as are all old streets in Eastern towns; butthey are clean. The newer streets are of modern advantages, foreign enterprise, and Euro- i84 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. pean mercantile firms have infused new life into thenative population. Madame Barakat, a native of Syria, and a well-knownlecturer and Bible reader, had very kindly given usletters of introduction to her Syrian relatives in these were Mr. Sarkis, a highly respected gentle-man who had been honored bv the Sultan with decora-. LADEN WITH HUGE TIMBERS. tions for services to his country, and who was also anauthor and editor of a daily newspaper; and Mr. Sabra,his assistant, a tall, fine-looking man. Another was theRev. Mr. Zurub, pastor of the Congregational three gentlemen were able to converse in Englishas fluently as in their own tongue.
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