ANTIOCH TO ALEPPO 



were driving a mangy dog and a dozen 

 puppies out of the room which was to be ours, 

 but I couldn't take it. A man came and asked 

 me if I could speak French, and although I 

 couldn't, I held on to him bv the arm. The 

 natives could not understand "America" or rec- 

 ognize that word. Then Moore suggested 

 "Mac Andrews & Forbes," and the man who 

 spoke French took us to his place, where we 

 met a protector in the form of a young En- 

 glishman of the name of Beard, and we hung 

 to him on both sides. He took us to a bet- 

 ter hotel, where they had a garden; that is, 

 in the court, they had a potted palm or two, 

 and in a little dusty corral a fat-tailed sheep, a 

 donkey and a few chickens. It was as clean 

 as a hotel could be in Aleppo, and most of the 

 foreign consuls ate there of evenings; some 

 of them slept there two or three nights of the 

 week — and then tried some other place. I had 

 not had, to my knowledge, any sleep on the 

 coach and Moore refused to admit that he had 

 had any, so we immediately went to bed. 



The next morning at daylight Jack Thomp- 

 son came, with our interpreter and the guns. 

 He had lost one of his teams over a high preci- 

 pice and he and the interpreter had almost lost 



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