GAZA
GAZA
A CITY OF MANY BATTLES
(FROM THE FAMILY OF NOAH TO THE PRESENT DAY)
BY
THEODORE EDWARD DOWLING, D.D.
ARCHDEACON IN SYRIA;
CANON OF ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGIATE CHURCH, JERUSALEM;
COMMISSARY FOR EASTERN CHURCH INTERCOURSE WITHIN THE
ANGLICAN BISHOPRIC IN JERUSALEM
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
Brighton: 129, North Street
New York: E.S. GORHAM
1913
brunswick street, stamford street, s.e.,
and bungay, suffolk.
DONALD A. COLES, M.D.
I DEDICATE THIS BOOKLET
WHICH WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
WITHOUT HIS ASSISTANCE AND
SYMPATHY
PREFACE
On Tuesday in Easter week, 1912, accompanied by theRev. J. Khadder, Assistant Chaplain of St. Luke'sMission, Haifa, I left that town for El-Kaisâriyeh(Cæsarea), where we were entertained at the OrthodoxGreek rented house belonging to a Bosnian landlord. Onreaching Jaffa I secured a fresh carriage on April 12,for Gaza, reaching that city in nine and a half hours,—anunusually quick journey. During my visit of ten daysthere I was the guest of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Sterling,in the Church Missionary Society's compound. Nothingcould have exceeded their kind hospitality, and I amgreatly indebted to them for valuable local information.Mrs. Sterling used her typewriter for producing myChapter XXI on the "History of the C.M.S. GazaMission," 1878-1913.
The aged and scholarly German, Father Gatt, one ofthe Latin Clergy attached to the Roman Catholic Patriarchateof Jerusalem, who came to Gaza thirty-threeyears ago from Austria, and ministers to eighty souls,lent me three printed articles on Gaza, and cheerfullyadded to my limited knowledge of the city. He mentionedthat a History of Gaza has been printed by Dr.Martin A. Meyer, and published at New York in 1907,but I had not the advantage of seeing this book. Aftermy manuscript was completed early in 1912, I procured a[viii]copy, and have during 1913 taken the liberty of incorporatingsome additional information from i