Letters from the Holy land . left the Bethlehem road and dived downto the Vale of Hebron, the heat increasinggreatly as Ave descended. We halted for the mid-day refection (how more than usually horrid theword lunch sounds here!) and rested in theshadow of a rock in a thirsty land, wheretradition says Philip met the Eunuch journeyingfrom far-off Meroe on the Upper Nile. It wasa wilderness of stones, where the big lizards ofPalestine were in strong force, panting over thetop of every rock, their black heads and goggleeyes upturned to the burning sky in a very comicalway. Close to Hebron is a nic
Letters from the Holy land . left the Bethlehem road and dived downto the Vale of Hebron, the heat increasinggreatly as Ave descended. We halted for the mid-day refection (how more than usually horrid theword lunch sounds here!) and rested in theshadow of a rock in a thirsty land, wheretradition says Philip met the Eunuch journeyingfrom far-off Meroe on the Upper Nile. It wasa wilderness of stones, where the big lizards ofPalestine were in strong force, panting over thetop of every rock, their black heads and goggleeyes upturned to the burning sky in a very comicalway. Close to Hebron is a nice cool Germanhostelry, where we rested before descending to thegloomiest town I have ever seen in the East, with AIN KAREEM, REPUTED BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, PROM ROOF OF CONVENT OF THE VISITATION Church built over supposed site of Zacharias andElizabeths house to right of town, high up, whereSt. John was born. Roof of chapel built over site oftheir country house, where Mary visited her cousin,in foreground. ii.^ TH^.
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