Volume 1

Mount Lebanon : a ten years' residence, from 1842 to 1852, describing the manners, customs, and religion of its inhabitants; with a full & correct account of the Druse religion, and containing historical records of the mountain tribes ... / by Colonel Churchill.

  • Spencer-Churchill, Charles Henry, 1828-1877.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mount Lebanon : a ten years' residence, from 1842 to 1852, describing the manners, customs, and religion of its inhabitants; with a full & correct account of the Druse religion, and containing historical records of the mountain tribes ... / by Colonel Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The East has long ceased to be, for Europeans, a “ terra incognita ^ The martial spirit of Napoleon, the scientific ardour of Belzoni, the enterprising researches of Burckhardt, Kirby, Mangles, Pococke, Laborde, Walpole, and other travellers well known to the literary world by pleasing, intelligent, and instructive publications, conveying the results of their observations and experience, have all con- spired to excite a powerful and still increasing interest in lands, which once could boast of won- drous thoughts and glorious achievements, but which, when the West became the great battle- ground of human progress and advancement, were gradually consigned to oblivion and neglect. At the same time, the East is a wide and com- prehensive word. To England, how much so! The genius of England which seems so peculiarly VOL. I. A