The Following Word Has Reached Us

Before leaving Lebanon, we feel it our duty to express our sincere appreciation to the Abou Jaoude travel office (Youssef Abdo Abou Jaoude).

Today we have completed a tour of ten days, made through this office and by its arrangement, during which we visited Lebanon and some of the Syrian regions.

We were the object of every attention and were treated with all courtesy; the management of this office bears its own particular stamp of genuinely good treatment, and that is of great importance to foreign visitors.

The charge which this office took from us, amounting to £2 and 600 mills per person per day, and covering hotel charges and transport, together with the guide's fee, is very modest indeed. This can only mean that the owner of this office has it at heart to make publicity for Lebanon. Those in charge of this office are proud to give visitors the enjoyment of Lebanon's beauty. And from our hearts we could wish that this office would spread its activity into all the countries of the world, so that others besides ourselves might profit from its good treatment and excellent service.

Now that we are about to return, we are sorry to leave this country, and we feel a pang at the mere thought of it, for it has offered us the best it has.

Translated from the English: M. R. Jones — Miss A. N. Carter
Miss Carter et Miss Jones
Two English ladies at the Heliopolis Institute, Cairo