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population. A marvelous development started with the liberation from
Turkish oppression. The roads of Macadamized were built all on the province,
agriculture was improved, and there was complete safety for the life and
ownership. There is now a proverb in Palestine and Syria that say, "In
Lebanon a virgin can travel alone to midnight and you/he/she can be sure, and a
gold purse allowed to fall in the road to midday will be never stolen." And
the proverb said the literal truth.
When one crossed the border from Turkish Palestine in Lebanon
province, what a change satisfied the eyes!--peaceful and prosperous villages,
schools filled with children, immense plantations of trees of mulberry and
olives, the slant of the mountains built to terraces with the beautiful vineyards, a
beautiful and strong population, patrols on every road to help the
extraneous, and the young girls and women with happy laughter and chatter working
in the fields. With a population of approximately six hundred thousand this
province annually exported two the value of million dollars of raw silk,
being that I rot from it silk-raises a specialty of Lebanon.
When autonomy was granted Lebanon, French influence became
predominant between the Maroniteses and the other Cristiano of the province.
French has spoken from almost all of them, and it loves for France it is a
the stable feeling of the people. On the other hand the touch of Druses
the English influence. For the last sixty years England has been the
friend of the Druses, and you/they have not forgotten him to them.
You/he/she can be worth whether to tell some words the history of a man that
brought defeasible he/she wonders in to spread the influence of his/her country. Mr.
Richard Wood was born in London a child of Catholic parents. From his
before childhood he inhaled to digitize the diplomatic service. The east
strongly attracts him, and to learn Arab he went with
another young English to live in Lebanon. To their Beirut they looked for
the hospitality of the patriarch of Maronite. For some days of theirs they were
treated with prodigal hospitality, and then the patriarch summoned them