LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Sheikh Akmet Haffez, the Diplomatic Ruler of 



THE Anezeh Bedouins Frontispiece 



His Excellency Chikeb Bey, the Turkish Am- 

 bassador II 



Letter of Chikeb Bey i6 



Abdul Hamid^s Favorite Horse 22 



The Sultan, Abdul Hamid 27 



*Tt Was a Rare Treat for the Diplomats When 



We Lined Up for Admission to the Palace". ... 31 



A Royal Eunuch 34 



Royal Eunuchs Following the Carriages of the 



Princesses 37 



Abdul Hamid Is Greeted by His Two Sons at the 



Mosque 42 



The Sultan Returning from the Mosque 46 



Ameen Zaytoun, My Interpreter 53 



One of Our Escorts at Antioch 62 



Old Methods of Travel Giving Way to New in 



Aleppo 74 



My Royal Present, Wadduda the War Mare, with 



Said Abdalla 83 



Nazin Pasha, the Governor of Aleppo 8/ 



Haleb, the Pride of the Anezeh ' 91 



Our First Round of Coffee Under the Great 



Sheikhas Tent 103 



Our Tent Near the Great Sheikh's Tent Among 



THE Anezeh 107 



"Just Out of Our Tent Squatted This Young 



Anezeh Bedouin" iii 



Young Men of the Anezeh Seeing Their First 



Cameras 113 



The Method of Buying a Horse ii!J the Desert 116 



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