Not long before, having offended the Sultan, he had fled into Egypt, and there became acquainted with the missionaries.
Having made his peace with the Sultan and returned to Deir el-Kamr, his capital, the brethren visited him there, and were hospitably entertained, and furnished with a firman for travelling in all parts of his dominions.
1 See _Missionary Herald_, 1824, pp.

65-71, 97-101.
Mr.King took up his residence there in order to study the Arabic language.

Mr.Fisk spent the summer with Mr.Way, of the London Jews' Society, in a building erected for a Jesuits' College at Aintura, which that gentleman had hired for the use of missionaries in Palestine.

In August, Mr.Wolff arrived from Jerusalem.

Early in the autumn, Messrs.