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in front of him and it said theirs that they has to leave the city among
twenty-four hours. The reason for the their their dishonor they discovered later.
Not suspecting that they had tried, they had eaten meat
one Friday, and this made the patriarch think that they was not true
Catholics, but it was there as spies.
Beirut that goes away to alacrity, Wood and his/her friend they looked for refuge with the
Druses that received them with arm opened. For two years lived Wood
among the Druses, in the village of Respects. There he learned Arab and
it made the knowledge completely of the country and with the ways of the
Druses, and there he conceived the idea to win the Druses for
England to counterattack the influence of the French Maronites. He went
back in London, where he succeeded in to thrill his/her sights on the
Foreign Office, and he returned in Syria it debited with a secret mission.
Among not very him persuaded the head of a tribe of Druse to address a petition to
England that asks British protection.
British protection was granted, and for more than the thirty year-old Richard Wood,
virtually it single-gave, shaped the destiny of Syria. It was he who
broken the power of Ibrahim Pasha the child of Mehemet Ali,; it was he who
Driven admiral Stopford in the bombardment in Beirut; it was him, again,
who provoked the unloading of troops English in Syria in 1841; us
find later it in Damascus as British Consul, and wherever he went
he was always occupied propagation the power English and prestige. He understood
the east completely and felt that England has to be strong in Syria if her
desired to hold back his/her imperial power. It is very unlucky that the
Lord's policy that Richard Wood has not been performed by his/her nation.
It was with tall hopes and anticipations that I drew near me to Lebanon.
I was anxiously waiting for the moment when I should find me among
people that were free from the Turkish joke, in a country where I owe
is able to freely breathe for some times.
But as great it was my dismay, when, on to enter Lebanon, me