. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . along the regularroad, we can visit it, if you have no objections to a smartscramble over these hills. Lead on. No path can be more abominable than this slip-pery pavement. We must first provide for lunch. No experienced trav-eler in this country will forget the commissary must a*so direct Salim to go on to the bridge over theOwely, and there prepare dinner. We shall be ready for itabout three oclock. Now take that path up the steep faceof the mountain
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . along the regularroad, we can visit it, if you have no objections to a smartscramble over these hills. Lead on. No path can be more abominable than this slip-pery pavement. We must first provide for lunch. No experienced trav-eler in this country will forget the commissary must a*so direct Salim to go on to the bridge over theOwely, and there prepare dinner. We shall be ready for itabout three oclock. Now take that path up the steep faceof the mountain on the left, and you will have enough todo to manage yourself and your horse, without the troubleof conversation. Well, this is rough enough, certainly, and desolate too—fitonly for goats and their keepers. I see Arab tents, how-ever. Yes; and there arc villages also, hidden away in thewadies, with vineyards, and olive-orchards, and fields forcorn, which produce no mean crop. What bird is this which abounds so much on thesemountains ? It is tlie English jvwit, or Injnviiig, called by the natives 104 THE LAND AND THE Kow and Bu-Teet, and I know not what besides. The firstname is derived from the fact that the bird appears hereonly in the depth of winter—noia being a cold winter-storm. I have seen them coming down the coast in largeflocks on the wings of the wild north wind. They then dis-perse over these mountains, and remain until early spring,when they entirely disaj)pear. They roost on the groundwherever night overtakes them. I have frequently startedthem up from under the very feet of my frightened horsewhen riding in the dark, especially along the spurs of oldHermon, and in Wady et Teim, between the two Leba-nons. They utter a loud scream when about to fly, whichsounds like a prolonged teet^ and hence the name Bu-Teet—father of teet. It is the duke^^haih of Moses, translated lap-wing in our version, and I think correctly, notwithstandingwhat some recent writers
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