. The Bible and modern discoveries . s pass. I note, and make rapidsketches as well as I can ; but feeling as if death is very figures of men and camels are almost covered. Somepoor beast, in its agony, breaks a rope and struggles to itsfeet: we are forced to pull it down again. Night comes on;the storm continues. About three oclock next day all isended—peace reigns, a sweet rainbow spans the sky. Withweary, exhausted bodies, we set ourselves to collect our belong-ings, to eat some bread, and drink water which is full of finesand. Sand has got into everything. Did the Israelites know
. The Bible and modern discoveries . s pass. I note, and make rapidsketches as well as I can ; but feeling as if death is very figures of men and camels are almost covered. Somepoor beast, in its agony, breaks a rope and struggles to itsfeet: we are forced to pull it down again. Night comes on;the storm continues. About three oclock next day all isended—peace reigns, a sweet rainbow spans the sky. Withweary, exhausted bodies, we set ourselves to collect our belong-ings, to eat some bread, and drink water which is full of finesand. Sand has got into everything. Did the Israelites know the Khamseen ? Yes, for it iscommon enough in the Delta. The trail goes on : we crossWady Werdan, a broad wady like Sudur, with water-wornboulders, but a dry bed. Then the valley closes in. Theground is broken up by low hills on either side, and there is * Sunday Magazine. 94 THE BIBLE AND MODERN DISCOVERIES. a sort of broad pass, in which there are two or three stuntedpahns and two shallow pools of undrinkable water—it is rare. to find water in these pools, though they arc called AinHawarah. The host must have passed here, as the nature of ISRAEL IN EGYPT. 95 the ground proves. Writers hampered by the Suez theory havethought Ain Hawarah was the Marah. As I have suffi-ciently shown, it wont fit in with a single part of the Bible to Elim the host of the Israelites go. In the AuthorisedVersion it is said, There were twelve wells of water; theRevised Version more properly translates the word into springs. In Wady Gharandel, the Elim, which we nowreach, the valley is well defined, and when I was there on twooccasions I found a delightful stream of water running throughit—the stream small, but fed by springs, many of which Ifound out some distance up the wady. The water was are bushes in plenty, and groups of the stunted palmsof the desert. Birds sang in the bushes, and low down theglen there were pools, like as in a Scotch burn, where thewater dashed and
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