text:  Lane and myself were not backward in returning this greeting; and on approaching we beheld a handsome young man dressed in the showy Austrian uniform with a black Tartar sheepskin cap on his head who coming up accosted us in French and with all the frankness of a soldier introduced himself as Count Szechinge a captain of Austrian dragoons then on his way from Tiberias with a party composed of one or two Turkish lancers about twenty-five Albanian deserters his German servant dragoman and suite to raise troops in the Adjelloun hills--a mission very similar to the one I was myself employed on at Naplouse