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standing quite insular, towards the east^ Tlie ciiap. 
Arabs were said to be in great number upon all '^— , ' 
the hills, but particularly upon or near to that 
mountain. We found D/ez^or's troops encamped c imp of 
about the centre of this vast plain, opposite to Cavah-y. 
some heit2fhts where the French were stronsflv 
fortified during their last campaign in Syria. 
The camp contained about three hundred 
cavalry, having more the appearance of banditti 
than of any regular troops ; and indeed it wa^ 
from tribes of rovers that they were principally 
derived. Two days before our arrival, upon 
Sunday, July the fifth, tliey fell upon the Arahs 
who were tending their numerous herds of 
cattle, seized their property, and killed many 
of them. They justified themselves, by urging 
ia the Holy Land. It is somewhat singular^ that Relanil, who cites 
Idumnanus [de Locis Sanctis), &houhl have omitted to notice the 
following^ passage ; becanse it occurs immediately after the extract he 
hai inserted from that author, in his chapter " De Tabore." (Vid. 
PaLcst. Illust. lib. i. c. 51.) " Sed inter hac et hoc est nntandum, quod 
tllius famofi montis nnmen Grcecis Utteris sic oporleat scrihi, per 6, et *< 
longum, Qafiii^ : Jjtttinis verb titteruUs cum aspiratione, Tluihor, pra- 
dttctd t) litlerd. Hujus 'orthographia vocahuli in libris Greecitatis est 
invcnla." (Vide Mahillon. torn. iv. Actor. Sanctor. Ord. Benedict!, 
p. 517. L. Par. 1672.) A philologist in the seventh century, upoB 
a rock in the Hebi'ides, is a curious circumstance in history : yet 
this is the fact ; for, in this instance, it is evidently the /Ibboi of lona, 
and not Arculfus the French bishop, who makes the observation. 
(2) See the f'ifftip/te to this Chajiter. 
