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Excerpt from The Land of Gilead With Excursions in the Lebanon
Sion with which foreign Christians were extremely unlikely to comply, as they would therebv forfeit all special privileges of consular protection, and lose the benefit of the capitulations. Moreover, the rivalries of the various Christian sects, already productive ofso much mischief throughout Turkey, and the jealousy of the Powers supporting them, would certainly ren der all attempts at harmonious colonisation abortive. The idea, therefore, of colonising with European Christians was speedily dismissed. The possibility of finding, under the auspices of such a Company, an asylum for the thousands of Moslem refugees, who, driven from their homes in Bulgaria and Roumelia, were starving in various parts of the empire, also suggested itself; but the difficulty in this case arose from the extreme improbability of finding the capital in Christian Europe which would be required for the transportation of thousands of penniless men, women, and children, and establishing them under conditions which should enable them to subsist through the early stages of the development of a new country: the houses to be built, the stock and farm implements to be provided, and the facilities of transport to be created, would all fall exclusively upon the Company. The chances of remuneration, therefore, were not likely to tempt capitalists, while European sympa thies in favour of poor Moslems were not sufficiently strong to make it likely that the charitable public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.