They returned home in consequence of an order obtained from the Pasha of Damascus, but not until they had drawn away perhaps twenty, old and young, some of whom soon after returned to the instructions of Mr.Thomson and Tannus, who had taken the place of Mr.Smith and Butrus.

While they were absent on the mountain to recover from illness, the result of confinement, anxiety, and a suffocating sirocco, the "Young Men" rose in arms, against the Protestant brethren.

They virtually took the government of the place into their own hands, and the Protestant men fled to escape their murderous violence.

Returning to Hasbeiya, Mr.Thomson found only the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of those who had fled; some of them so poor as not to know how or where they could find their daily bread, yet apparently without fear.

He overtook the fugitive people the next day, who were half perishing with hunger.
Abeih was their place of refuge; and there they remained till October, zealously attending upon religious instruction.
In that month, one of the two Druze skeiks [sic] arrived, who had interposed on their behalf on the fifteenth of July, bringing with him a document from the Pasha of Damascus, procured, it was said, by Mr.Wood, English Consul there, directing their return and guaranteeing their entire security.