Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ere very importunate in their entreatiesto be favoured with a few locks from the travellers heads. The request wasungallantly refused. Perhaps it might have been otherwise had the ladiesdesired the locks for love-tokens; but the fact was, they wanted them as acharm to add to the efficacy of some medicine the Franks had given themfor a sick kinsman. The women said that the smoke of Christian hair,burnt while the medicine was warming, would ensure a cure of the patientsdi
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ere very importunate in their entreatiesto be favoured with a few locks from the travellers heads. The request wasungallantly refused. Perhaps it might have been otherwise had the ladiesdesired the locks for love-tokens; but the fact was, they wanted them as acharm to add to the efficacy of some medicine the Franks had given themfor a sick kinsman. The women said that the smoke of Christian hair,burnt while the medicine was warming, would ensure a cure of the patientsdisorder. Some Arabs, to secure the hair, will take the head and all. * Perrier. 128 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. About the town of Banias, near the source of the Jordan, grows a certainmiraculous herb, which is greatly sought after by the Christians of theSyrian and Greek churches. It is found, they say, in a place where a sickman, who was cured by our Lord, erected a monument to his divine bene-factor. A leaf of the plant applied to a wound is said instantly to stop thehaemorrhage, and to produce a perfect cure in two Tartous and Ruad. Tartous, the ancient Antaradus, perhaps also the ancient Orthosia,was formerly a bishops see, in the province of Tyre. It is frequentlymentioned in the history of the crusades as a place of great modern town, which seems little more than an agglomeration ofruins, is inclosed with-in a high wall, irregu-larly built of stone ormarble, protected by afoss, which, in someparts, is cut in the solidrock. Passing thetown wall, we lodgedfor the night upon apiece of turf beyondthe arch of an old gate-way, near to which arethe ruins of a chapel orrefectory of a convent,or perhaps those of achristian church, havingseveral lancet windows remaining. There are also some remains close tothe sea, on the north side of the town, where appeared to be the remainsof a gateway leading to the port. I left this place three hours after midnight, intending
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