Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan: including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis . urselves and beasts, in a shed erected for theaccommodation of travellers, and attached to the building. Ourhunger was extreme on arriving here, and we despatched ourmuleteer to search for food ; but he returned, assuring us that someof the villagers had already lain down to sleep, others had finishedtheir suppers, and had nothing eatable in their huts, and others,who possessed flour, would neither part with that nor make usbread.
Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan: including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis . urselves and beasts, in a shed erected for theaccommodation of travellers, and attached to the building. Ourhunger was extreme on arriving here, and we despatched ourmuleteer to search for food ; but he returned, assuring us that someof the villagers had already lain down to sleep, others had finishedtheir suppers, and had nothing eatable in their huts, and others,who possessed flour, would neither part with that nor make usbread. It seemed to me so impossible that a whole village couldbe thus destitute, that I went out myself, but my success was little 144 MOUNT CARMEL, DORA, AND C^SAREA. better, as we returned with a few fragments only of stale bread,and a little lamp oil. On the bread alone I made a scanty supper,assisted by a pipe, which is certainly an aUayer of hunger; myservant and our guide, boiling some coarse grain which was usedas food for the mules, and moistening it with oil, made also a tem-porary meal, and we were soon after lulled asleep by the roaringof the sea CHAPTER VTll. BY JOPPA AND RAMLAH TO JERUSALEM. January 16th. We were awakened by the day-break call toprayer from the gallery of the mosque above us, and at six oclockwe left our cold and comfortless lodging by the moon-light. Descending to the beach, we continued along the coast underbrown cliffs and hills, and came in about two hours to the outletof a small river called Nahr-el-Arsoof, which, being shallow, weeasily forded. We could not perceive any ruins there, though u 146 BY JOPPA AND RAMLAH TO JERUSALEM. DAnville has placed the site of Apollonias * at the mouth of thestream called Arsoof, and the historians of the Crusades speak of acastle at this place, f Keeping still along the sea-shore, we came in half an hour to alittle-domed fountain on the brow of the cliff, and observed thatthe beach beneath was covered with
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