Gaza: A City of Many Battles (from the Family of Noah to the Present Day)

Gaza: A City of Many Battles (from the Family of Noah to the Present Day)

On Tuesday in Easter week, 1912, accompanied by the Rev. J. Khadder, Assistant Chaplain of St. Luke's Mission, Haifa, I left that town for El-Kaisriyeh (Csarea), where we were entertained at the Orthodox Greek rented house belonging to a Bosnian landlord. On reaching Jaffa I secured a fresh carriage on April 12, for Gaza, reaching that city in nine and a half hours,an unusually quick journey. During my visit of ten days there I was the guest of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Sterling, in the Church Missionary Society's compound. Nothing could have exceeded their kind hospitality, and I am greatly indebted to them for valuable local information. Mrs. Sterling used her typewriter for producing my Chapter XXI on the "History of the C.M.S. Gaza Mission," 1878-1913. The aged and scholarly German, Father Gatt, one of the Latin Clergy attached to the Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, who came to Gaza thirty-three years ago from Austria, and ministers to eighty souls, lent me three printed articles on Gaza, and cheerfully added to my limited knowledge of the city. He mentioned that a History of Gaza has been printed by Dr. Martin A. Meyer, and published at New York in 1907, but I had not the advantage of seeing this book. After my manuscript was completed early in 1912, I procured a[viii] copy, and have during 1913 taken the liberty of incorporating some additional information from its contents, for which I am grateful. Mr. A. A. Knesevich, H.B.M. Consular Agent at Gazaof Austrian parentagelent me five of his official printed Reports, notes from which are included under the heading of "The Key of Syria," Chapter XIX. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49256
Author: Dowling, Theodore Edward
Release Date: Jun 22, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English