It is worthy of note that we had to send for these things.

I said Damascus was an old fossil, and she is.
Any where else we would have been assailed by a clamorous army of donkey-drivers, guides, peddlers and beggars--but in Damascus they so hate the very sight of a foreign Christian that they want no intercourse whatever with him; only a year or two ago, his person was not always safe in Damascus streets.

It is the most fanatical Mohammedan purgatory out of Arabia.

Where you see one green turban of a Hadji elsewhere (the honored sign that my lord has made the pilgrimage to Mecca,) I think you will see a dozen in Damascus.

The Damascenes are the ugliest, wickedest looking villains we have seen.