Armed bodies of Druzes passed and saluted us, but no one offered to insult one of the girls by word or gesture.

Dr.and Mrs.Bliss gave us lunch at their home in the Suk as we came from Abeih, and then followed a few days later to Beirut.

Miss Temple tried to re-open the school in Beirut, but the constant tide of refugees coming in from the mountains, and the daily rumors of an attack by Druzes and Moslems on Beirut, threw the city into a panic, and it was found impossible to carry on the work of instruction.

The girls were sent to their parents where this was practicable, and the Seminary as such ceased for a time to exist.

Katrina, was married in 1864 to M.Ghurzuzy, a Protestant merchant of Beirut, who is now secular agent or Wakil of the Syrian Protestant College.