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sions ill Syria, and more particularly to those trans Jordanem. 

 I foro^cjt to mention to you that there is a ruined city, called 

 Om-el-Djemal, at the distance of about 25 miles S. E. from 

 Bosra in the Hauran. I have not been able to visit that spot, 

 you may, perhaps, be more fortunate. I understood, during my 

 stay at Basra, that there are a great number of Greek inscrip- 

 tions to be met with at Om-el-DjemaL The Chief of the Druses 

 of Hauran, Shibely, can afford you the means to see that place. 



With the liveliest wishes for your welfare, and the complete 

 success of your projects, I have the honour to be, my dear Sir, 

 Your most obedient humble Servant, 



IBRAHIM. 

 P. S.— A letter addressed to Colonel Missett will always reach 

 me, at least for the two next years to come. 



On inquiring when the writer had departed, the old man told 

 me he had received the letter on the preceding evening, with 

 orders to present it me on my arrival, and that Ibrahim intended 

 leaving Esneh at midnight. I immediately despatched my ser- 

 vant to his house, and some fortunate obstacles having delayed 

 his departure a few hours beyond the appointed one, he was in 

 the act of mounting his camel to repair to the caravan ren- 

 dezvous, without knowing of our being here, or even expecting 

 our return so soon. He came instantly to the boat, and our joy 

 at meeting was as powerful as the regret we both appeared to 

 have felt at our former separation^ nor could there have been 

 any doubt of its mutual sincerity. 



The writer of the Journal afterwards continued his way to 

 Cairo, and from thence to Suez, where he embarked on the Red 

 Sea, and after a disastrous voyage, rendered still more painful 

 by illness, reached Jedda, where he again met with Mr. Burck- 

 hardt, and obtained from him a detailed account of what had be- 

 fallen him since their separation. — This event is thu.? described 

 in the Journal before extracted from. 

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