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'And yet, said Tancred, 'though they have maintained themselves, they have done nothing; now, the Arabs have always succeeded. 'I will tell you how that is, said Fakredeen. 'It is very true that we have not done much, and that, when we descended into the plain, as we did in '63, under the Emir Yousef, we were beat, beaten back even by the Mutualis; it is that we have no cavalry.
The Druses, Christian tribes, the Mutualis, and schismatic Muhammedans offered him assistance, and ardently wished for his coming.
The women do not wear veils, but I saw few such handsome countenances among them as I have frequently observed in the Tyrol. On the first mountain-range of Lebanon, in the direction of Caelosyria, many Druses are found, besides a few tribes of "Mutualis." The former incline to the Christian faith, while the latter are generally termed "calf-worshippers."
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