The news of my arrival soon reached the ears of my husband, who with the remainder of the captives who had been redeemed and had not left the country, hastened to the Consul’s house to see me Happy meeting! It was some time before my husband or myself could exchange a syllable with each other—the joy which we both felt in being enabled to meet again, and under circumstances so different from those under which we parted, deprived us for some of the power of speech; indeed if these was ever a moment in which it became an unfortunate people like ourselves to offer up prayers of thankfulness to an adorable Creator, for his mercy and goodness in so long protecting us during our many months captivity, and for finally effecting our redemption out of the hands of the unmerciful Arabs, this was the moment. It is certainly the Almighty who is the bestower and giver of all our good things—all our mercies come to us by a divine providence and ordering: not by casualty or accident—neither are they of our own procuring and purchasing—it is God who returns the captivity of Zion: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream: then was our mouth filled with laughters, and our tongue with