The splendid ruins of arak el-Emir on the heights of southern Gilead, east of the Jordan, represent the huge castle and town built by his son Hyrcanus and testify to the wealth of this Jewish adventurer.
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Then to Falooja, and between Idsaid and Karatiyah on our right, and the arak Munshiyah on the left.
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On the meadows near the stream, is always to be found a group of Baalbekians bibbing arak and swaying languidly to the mellow strains of the lute and the monotonous melancholy of Arabic song.
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