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in Mismdrt, i.e., cuneiform, at many places in the
neighbourhood, but without the materials for making
paper
useless.
impressions visits to them would have been
On our way back to Berut Dr. Fritz Rosen very
kindly invited me to visit him that evening so that he
might show me some maps of the various routes from
Damascus to Mosul, which had been compiled by
German travellers and were then in the Consulate,
and I accepted. Dr. Fritz Rosen was the son of Dr.
Georg Rosen,' formerly Prussian Consul in Jerusalem,
with whom my wife and I stayed during a long visit
which we paid to Detmold in May and June, 1885.
His wife, a daughter of Monsieur Roche, the eminent
French examiner for the British Government, was a
fellow-student with my wife at the National Training
School for Music. I was very glad to meet my old friends
again, and I went to the German Consulate after dinner
and spent a very useful and pleasant evening there.
Dr. Rosen had asked Dr. Schroder to meet me, and
I learned from him many facts which I found most
useful during my journey to Mosul. Dr. Schroder was
a colossus of Semitic learning, and was as great an
* It was of this gentleman and his wife that Hohnan Hunt told
the following story
The Pasha, who had been courageous enough to allow Franghis
to enter the Mosque As Sakreh, was a Moslem of singularly open
mind. He came to Jerusalem not only without a handsome number
of wives, but without one. He soon conceived a cordial friendship
for Baron Rosen, the Prussian Consul, and visited him as an intimate.
The Consul, who was of courteous and gentle manner, appreciated
the desire of the Pasha to understand the life of a European household,
and welcomed him at all times. The Pasha became specially
interested in the household affairs which, without ceremony, Madame
Rosen discharged in his presence. After a while, in a confidential
talk with the Consul, he avowed that the European system of managing
a house was distinctly to be preferred to that of the Oriental, in
that dishonesty was completely checked in the servants ; this, he
declared, was truly excellent, but still, he added, "There is one point
your wife effectually guards you from dishonest
I cannot understand ;
servants, but what check have you to prevent her from defrauding
you herself ? " Pre-RaphaelUism, vol. ii, p. 33, London, 1905.