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By a steep, devious, and difficult track, 
following our horses on foot, we descended 
from this place to the village of Hatti \ situate jl,i'lf^ ° 
at one extremity of the cultivated plain we had 
surveyed from the heights. Here, when we 
had collected the stragglers of our party into a 
large plantation of lime and lemon trees, we 
■fere regaled by the Arabs with all their country 
afforded. Having spread mats for us beneath 
the trees, they came and seated themselves 
amongst us, gazing, with very natural surprise, 
at their strange guests. Some of the Arabs 
were Druses. These are much esteemed in the Druses. 
countries bordering the seat of their Govern- 
ment, for their great probity, and a mildness 
of disposition, which, in Syria, is proverbially 
attributed to the members of their community. 
It is said, that they will neither eat nor drink, 
except of food which they have obtained by 
their own labour, or, as the Arabs literally 
expressed it, " by the sweat of their brow." • 
From the conversation we had with them, they 
seemed to be entirely ignorant of their origin. 
When strangers question them upon this subject, 
(3) Called Hutin bj' Pococke. Descript. of the East, vol. II. part 1. 
p. 67. 
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