The guaranty proved to be illusive, though probably not intended to be so.

Strong, unfriendly influences were subsequently brought to bear on the Pasha.1 They were accompanied by Butrus, and it was intended that one of the missionaries should soon follow.

The party reached Hasbeiya on the fourteenth of October, and found those who had remained there in great fear.

The Patriarch having arrived the same day, to inflame the passions of their enemies, intimidate the governor, and weaken the hands of the Druze sheiks.

Butrus wrote, advising that no missionary come there until the Patriarch was gone, and things had become more quiet.