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The tradition of the city's name is curious, and worth relating. It is called, in Arabic, Haleb el-Shahba Aleppo, the Gray which most persons suppose to refer to the prevailing color of the soil. The legend, however, goes much farther.
We arrived at Ras el Ain in all our brave attire and we mastered all the villages and their inhabitants. We came to Haleb, whose territory we had overrun, borne by our swift, magnificent steeds.
Haleb, which the Venetians and Genoese softened into Aleppo, means literally: "has milked," According to Arab tradition, the patriarch Abraham once lived here: his tent being pitched near the mound now occupied by the citadel. The repetition of this morning call attached itself to the spot, and became the name of the city which was afterwards founded.
'May their visit lead to no evil to them or to us! 'Have you misgivings? 'We are alone among men: let us remain so. 'You are right. 'Give me the mountains, the mountains of our fathers, and the beautiful things that can be seen only by one of us! 'They are not to be found in the bazaars of Haleb; in the gardens of Damascus they are not to be sought.
Fatigued, but with an eye full of resolution, it fluttered for a moment, and then fell upon her bosom. Cypros advanced and lifted its weary wing, and untied the cartel which it bore, brief words, but full of meaning, and a terrible interest. 'The Pasha, at the head of five thousand regular troops, leaves Haleb to-morrow to invade our land.
'I have taken a Cabala, said Issachar, the son of Selim, 'and the news will be good. 'To whom and from whom? Good to the Pasha, but not to me! good to the people of Haleb, but not, perhaps, to the family of Besso. 'God will guard over his own. In the meanwhile, I must replace this bandage, noble Besso. Let me rest your arm upon this cushion and you will endure less pain.
'Oh! who is like the Queen who reigns over us? I know to whom she is to be compared, but I will not say; yet you too know, my brother in arms. 'Yes; there are things which are not known in the bazaars of Haleb; in the gardens of Damascus they are not to be sought.
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