Intriguing. Two princes said to be of Mount Lebanon evidently travelled throughout England in the year 1730—there are multiple references in publications in Burney's Collection of C17th/18th Newspapers (@britishlibrary @dan_a_lowe).
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Thanks to this, have now got a record of their presence in Penzance, Cornwall, where the 'prince' is named as 'the Prince of Chesroan Abu Gemblat Hassar Abaisci, of Mount Libanus, in Syria'. Also looks like went to Norway in 1732?
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Chesroan is Kisrawan, a district of Mt Lebanon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keserwan_District … Gemblat surely is Jumblatt, but that's more than a little confusing: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fi_CThWrKCAC&pg=PA219&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false … Hassar looks like a typo/misunderstanding of Hassan to me. Don't know what's going on with Abaisci.
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Interesting! Looking around, it appears he also travelled to Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden; on the continent, Hassar is transcribed 'Zessar' and 'Nessar'. There also seems to be an 'Asiatic' Prince Elias Abaisci in Europe in 1766, fwiw...
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I also picked up a reference to someone arriving in Geneva in 1728—not unreasonable to think it might be the same party, given how long they evidently spent in one country (England).
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How fascinating -- a very extensive trip indeed, it seems!
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