. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ix and seven hours of horseback in a country which is one great rock, split and shattered and ground into fragments, some of them as large as a mountain and some of them as small as the sand of the sea. In a later part of his Palestine journey history Dr. Talmage told a rare experience which he and his partv had in their travels. It was nothing less than an Oriental blizzard. This is the graphic man-ner in which he described it: Not quite as danger-ous or perilous as those that occur in our own North-west, but still sufficiently
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ix and seven hours of horseback in a country which is one great rock, split and shattered and ground into fragments, some of them as large as a mountain and some of them as small as the sand of the sea. In a later part of his Palestine journey history Dr. Talmage told a rare experience which he and his partv had in their travels. It was nothing less than an Oriental blizzard. This is the graphic man-ner in which he described it: Not quite as danger-ous or perilous as those that occur in our own North-west, but still sufficiently exciting. This afternoon we are caught in a tempest that drenches the mountain. One of the horses falls and Te halt amid blinding rain. Tt is freezing cold. Fino-ers and feet like ice. Two hours and three- nuarters before encampment. We ride on in silence, longing for the terminus of to-days pilgrimage. Tt is, through the awful inclemency of the weather, the onlv dangerous day of the journey. Slip, and slide, and stumble, and climb, and descend, we must; some-. BRDOUIN OF THE DESERT £64 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK
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