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Princeton. He was very serious and affectionate in account of the American
city that have come to his/her care under, while making the same kind in Jerusalem
of service that Ambassador Morgenthau has made to Constantinople. Him
it was practically the only man that defended the poor man, defenseless
people of the city. He kindly received me, and I told him that of which I knew
the conditions in the country, what I had felt among the Arabs, and of mine
own fears and the apprehensions. He was visibly thrilled and he recommended me
to see Captain Decker of the United States. Tennessee that was then in Jaffa,
promising to write him to the captain of my proposed visit.
I went to Jaffa the same day and after the delay of two days succeeded in
Captain seeing Decker, with the further help of the Mr. Glazebrook that taken
me with him. The police interfered and tried not to allow to go me
on board of the ship, but after long discussions I was permitted to take mine
puts in the throwing that the captain had sent for the consul.
Heads Decker it was interested in what I had to say, and to his/her application me
dictated my history to his/her stenographer. What became of my relationship that I don't do
know,--if it was issued to the Department of State or if
Heads Decker it communicated with Ambassador Morgenthau,--but at all
events we started soon to see the certain reforms installed reigning in parts of the
country, and these reforms would be been able to only be effected through
pressure from Constantinople. The presence of the two American cruisers
in the waters of Mediterranean it has without some doubt been instrumental in
the saving of a lot of lives.
I CAPITULATE VII
FIGHTING AGAINST THE LOCUSTS
While I was traveling in the south, another threatens to our people
welfare had appeared: the locusts. From their Soudan they entered
awful innkeepers--black clouds of them that darkened the sun. It seemed
as if Nature was united to the conspiracy against us. These locusts were
of the kind known as the pilgrim, or wandering, locust; for forty