GUIDE TO THE READER.
This volume has been made, as far as possible, an exhaustive collection of evidence. It therefore necessarily contains much that is only of slight interest to the ordinary reader, and many of the documents are duplicate accounts, from independent sources, of identical events, which, while of the highest value from the evidential point of view, are superfluous to those who wish merely to form a general idea of what occurred.
It has therefore seemed advisable, in the reader’s interest, to single out forty or fifty of the most important documents (about one in three of the whole series), and direct his attention, in the first place, to these. They are detailed, with an indication of their contents, in the following list:—
Transcriber’s NoteThe first item in the Table of Contents mentions a map of the districts affected, but there is no map in edition used to prepare this book. The TOC entry is retained, nonetheless. An editor’s note also mentions a map (the same map?) to accompany the Index of Place Names at the end of the volume. In any case, there is no such map in this edition.Some compound words appear both with and without hyphens. Where the word breaks on a newline, the hyphen is retained if it appears elsewhere.Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.xii.33that these [T/t]wenty-two documentsReplaced.41.33working for our prot[e/é]gésReplaced.56.18to revolt and mass[s]acre the TurksRemoved.87.46by the gendarmes [j]ust like the restRestored.139.7brought me some [j]ewelleryRestored.195.2it is indispensable to instal[l] medicalAdded.258.14that has reached [t]he VaticanRestored.290.45of the [l]ocal branch of the Ottoman Bank.Restored.400.49they said, [“]but now we seeAdded.451.11is the most [i]mportant factorRestoured.473.18composed of familie[t/s]Replaced.475.6There are many theories[.]Added.516.42the dense [underbush]sicunderbrush?545.28to Damascus, Beirout and Medina[.]Added.649.49the number was actually 22[.]Added.
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Transcriber’s Note
The first item in the Table of Contents mentions a map of the districts affected, but there is no map in edition used to prepare this book. The TOC entry is retained, nonetheless. An editor’s note also mentions a map (the same map?) to accompany the Index of Place Names at the end of the volume. In any case, there is no such map in this edition.
Some compound words appear both with and without hyphens. Where the word breaks on a newline, the hyphen is retained if it appears elsewhere.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.