The Holy Land and the Bible; . Kefr How^ar, ourquarters for the night. Even before we reached our halting-place,how^ever, rain began to fall, and continued at intervals; but the tentwas, of course, a great protection, tliough by no means watertight. Ihave a vivid remembrance of that night, for it was largely spent intrving to balance the coverlet on a bed two inches broader than mvshoulders ; to keep my feet from ex[)osnre at the one end of the struc-ture, and to forget a sweet hollow in the middle, which left ones backfor quite a space suspended over nothing. Then there was the amuse-ment of
The Holy Land and the Bible; . Kefr How^ar, ourquarters for the night. Even before we reached our halting-place,how^ever, rain began to fall, and continued at intervals; but the tentwas, of course, a great protection, tliough by no means watertight. Ihave a vivid remembrance of that night, for it was largely spent intrving to balance the coverlet on a bed two inches broader than mvshoulders ; to keep my feet from ex[)osnre at the one end of the struc-ture, and to forget a sweet hollow in the middle, which left ones backfor quite a space suspended over nothing. Then there was the amuse-ment of trying to set the howls of jackals and the barking of numer-ous dogs to music, and of watching the flapping of the canvas as therainy wind made s])ort with it. Sleep, however, came at last, but Iwas soon roused by a pious jackass braying its morning hymn close tom^y ear. The ])ass by which I had crossed the mountains must have been inuse from the earliest times, and was most probably that by w^hich /.{-»»«! sasCSi^JSMWaSsS;. u
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