Few Americans know just what the Lebanon is.

From the repeated allusions in the Bible most people imagine it to be nothing but a mountain.

The truth is that a beautiful province of about four thousand square miles bears that name.

The population of the Lebanon consists of a Christian sect called Maronites and the Druses, the latter a people with a secret religion the esoteric teachings of which are known only to the initiated, and never divulged to outsiders.

Both these peoples are sturdy, handsome folk.