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CHAPTER III. THE DRUZES On Tuesday morning we were waited upon by
our hotel- keeper, who announced his willingness to accompany us to
Beirut, as our confinement was now at an end. We entered quarantine
late on Friday evening; the physician declares us " whole" this
morning; and, though we did not see him nor he us, yet we
understand that we are legally free. In the West this would not be
five days; but, orientally, five consecutive parts of days are
accounted so many days: so that though we entered on Friday
evening, remaining Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, on Tuesday we were
liberated, being actually but three days in quarantine. This ?which
we found to be the universal custom throughout the East?brought to
our mind the Scripture reckoning of three days to the entombment of
the Saviour, though he was crucified on Friday and rose early on
Sunday. A general packing-up commenced, and we were soon on the way
to the gate. Here we found that a sentinel with his musket had
always kept guard, and we were as much in safe keeping as though in
prison. Three horses were in readiness for us at the gate. Mine was
a shabby specimen of his race; and the only singularity about him
was a collection of Syrian ornaments hung round his neck in the
shape of dirty coloured cotton strings, put upon him, as I
afterwards supposed, because he, being the meanest and the "
slowest coach" of the three, needed some set-off to make amends. D.
and the hotel-keeper soon outstripped my and, as the little stupid
native boy did not know FORMER TIMES. 35 the way to the hotel, I
was lost. Making the best of my predicament, I wandered around the
country, and finally, completing a circuit of the town, I arrived
where a solitary palm-tree grew. From this position the country
around was seen to some extent, ...
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