. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . avenly Father. Can a woman forget her sucking child,that she should not have compassion on the son of herwomb? Yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Levit. xix. 28. ^ Dent, xxxii. .>. 94 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. Behold, I liave graven thee on the palms of mj hands; thywalls are continually before me.^ As to these Arabs, whoseblue lips started us off upon this digression, we shall havemany occasions to notice their strange ways and singularcustoms. Those
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . avenly Father. Can a woman forget her sucking child,that she should not have compassion on the son of herwomb? Yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Levit. xix. 28. ^ Dent, xxxii. .>. 94 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. Behold, I liave graven thee on the palms of mj hands; thywalls are continually before me.^ As to these Arabs, whoseblue lips started us off upon this digression, we shall havemany occasions to notice their strange ways and singularcustoms. Those dingy brown things peeping out of thebushes on the mountain side are their tents, and they arefound spread over the whole country, from Egypt to MountTaurus. Here are men on our left digging stone out of this sand-hill, and you may be certain that they are uncovering theremains of some ancient town. The Jerusalem Itineraryplaces Porphyreon in this neighborhood, and I suppose thatthese sand-covered ruins mark the exact site of that whole neighborhood is now called Jiyeh. What place is this to which we are coming ?. THE OP JONAH Neby Yunas—the pro}ihct Jonah—or, rather, his tomb. Indeed! That starts inquiries which I have long had onhand in reference to some of the incidents in the experienceof that very remarkable prophet. Is this low building onour left the tomb? The first is a khan; that south of it contains the grave, ormausoleum. It has rooms attached for the keeper, and also • Is. xlix. \r->. 16. JONAH AND THE WHALE. 95 for the accommodation of pilgrims—mostly Moslems andDruses—wiio come to discharge certain vows made to theshrine. It is in the hands of Moslems, and this crooked,club-footed anatomy, hobbling toward us for a bukshish, isthe keeper. I have repeatedly spent the night here, andlistened again and again to his exaggerated account ofJonahs awkward cruise with the w^hale. He devoutly be-lieves that the prophet w^as safely landed on th
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