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His white house and cypress-trees stand out prominently in the village we had just left; throughout his gardens he has built a succession of water-towers, which irrigate his land; he is British-protected, and as important a man in the south as the French-protected Wazeer of Wazan is in the north.
And a little later he arrested two Jewish boys, servants of British-protected Jews, for drawing crosses on the walls the usual sign for an outbreak of Christian persecution at Damascus and took away temporarily the British protection from their masters.
We found out afterwards that the cause of the Greek ill-feeling originated with the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Nazareth, who had snatched away a synagogue and cemetery from British-protected Jews, against which arbitrary proceeding Richard had strongly protested.