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The road was utterly impossible for wheeled traffic, and, in the pitiless downpour, next to impossible for the infantry, bowed down by the weight of saturated packs and clothing, whose boots were clogged with mud and hampered the already dragging feet. It was three days before the Amman plain was reached!
Consequently, the enemy were able to receive considerable reinforcements. Before Amman could be attacked in strength some 4,000 Turks were in position covering the viaduct and tunnel, while 2,000 more were moving on Es Salt from the north. Five miles of railway line were however, destroyed, while much other damage was done to the railway line.
Now, whilst our enemies are in our power and unprepared you give them good words. Thou believest them, and holdest back. Hereafter, when they are prepared, they will not make peace with us; who then will separate us?" "Dear comrade," replied the amman, "I trust in God. He will make all right. Act always for the best." The brief truce, which now followed, was diligently used by both parties.
FURST. Let him be Amman and the Diet's chief? You that agree with me hold up your hands! I cannot lay my hands upon the books; But by yon everlasting stars I swear Never to swerve from justice and the right. Why, at the hour when spirits walk the earth, Meet the three Cantons of the mountains here, Upon the lake's inhospitable shore?
Then the amman struck his hand upon the document and said: 'It is enough. Then one behind me, who was doubtless a Zuricher, cried out: 'Read the thing through, that we may hear how traitorously they would have dealt with us. The amman turned to him and spake: 'How read it through?
"The sign by which you will know your friends in Cairo is the word 'Amman! Your answer to it will be, 'Allah is good! To which the friend will reply, 'And ever watchful! To any one coming to you in this way you can give any message, or follow any instructions he or she may give.
By that evening, the Turkish armies west of the Jordan had ceased to exist. There still remained the Turkish 4th army in Eastern Palestine. An expedition, consisting largely of cavalry, was sent against them. These crossed the Jordan Valley, and, moving up the eastern slopes, on the 23rd September captured Es Salt, and, on the 26th, Amman.
"The Mohammedans were sullied with the same inhumanities, but rarely; and when one asked amman, pity, of them and offered them tribute, they pardoned. As for the other nations there has not been one right from the existence of the world which has ever made a purely religious war. Follow me now." I followed him.
After a short deliberation, the leaders declared themselves ready to halt, and a courier was dispatched to Zurich for instructions. But Zwingli approached the landamman, who had formerly been one of his most intimate friends in Glarus, with the words: "Dear amman, thou wilt be obliged to account to God for this peace.
The Kos is a measure of distance nearly equal to two English miles, but varying in different provinces. The Muhammadans, after being cured of sickness or wounds, also their women, after recovery from child-bed, always bathe in luke-warm water; which is called the ablution of cure. A mere novice in the language would say that Mir Amman writes "bad grammar" here!
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