Capitolo 35
locusts had destroyed all from as far south as the Egyptian
you surrender to the Mountains of Lebanon on the north; but the locust was not the
only, neither the worse one, sore that the people had to complain of. The
plundering under the name of "military questions", the despotic rule
of the officers of army, and general insecurity is also more
devastating.
As I proceeded on my trip toward north, I hoped to find the consolation and
brighter perspectives in the independent province of Lebanon. Little
Americans know what is Lebanon. Allusions give repeated in
the Bible more people imagine him not to be anything but a mountain. The truth
it is that a beautiful province of approximately four the bears of thousand miles plaza
that name. The population of Lebanon consists of a Christian sect
Called Maronites and the Druses, the second a people with a secret
religion the esoteric teachings of what known is only to the
initiated, and it never divulged to outsider. Both these peopleses are
strong people, beautiful. Through the machinations of the Turks which
policy is "to divide and to dominate" always, the Maronites both continually
fighting against the Druses. In 1860 joined Turkish troops with the
Druses and it fell on the Maronites with massacres of wholesale that have scattered
as far south as Damascus, where ten thousand Cristiano you/they were killed in
two days.
[THE ILLUSTRATION: THE CHRISTIAN CITY OF ZAHLEH IN LEBANON]
European powers had finally stirred. Fifty war ships were expeditious
Beirut, and ten thousand French troops were disembarked in Lebanon, to
you create order. Under the pressure of the European powers the Sublime
Doors it was forced to grant an autonomy for the province of Lebanon.
French, English, German, Russian, Austrian, and, one year later, the
Italian, Governments you/he/she was signing the guarantee of this autonomy.
Since then Lebanon has had then the peace. The Governor of the province owes
is always a Cristiano, but the General Board of Lebanon includes
representatives of all the different runs and religions of the