text: '--Although the greater part of the inhabitants of Beyrout are Christians generally speaking of the Greek Church to which persuasion likewise belonged the family of our host Giorgio; still in this land of bigotry and oppression--to such an extent is carried suspicion and jealousy and so far have Mahommedan prejudices in this respect been adopted that all the women (those of the peasantry alone excepted) lead nearly as secluded a life as the Osmanli ladies of Constantinople or Smyrna