She was bound on an ass, appeared resigned to her fate, and turned her sunken eyes upon us with an aspect of indifference.

I could see no trace of the terrible disease, except a yellow appearance of the face.

The soldier who accompanied her seemed as cool and indifferent as though he were walking beside a person in perfect health.
As the plague prevailed to a considerable extent throughout the valleys of the Lebanon, we were frequently obliged to go some distance out of our way to avoid the villages afflicted with the scourge; we usually encamped for the night in the open fields, far from any habitation.
On the whole long distance from Balbeck to the cedars of Lebanon we found not a human habitation, excepting a little shepherd's hut near the mountains.

Not more than a mile and a half from the heights we came upon small fields of snow.

Several of our attendants dismounted and began a snow-balling match,--a wintry scene which reminded me of my fatherland.