Only one entry that I've found actually names them: Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal (London, England), Saturday, August 22, 1730; Issue XCVIII. This calls them 'Joseph Abaisci and John Hanner'.
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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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