. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . IN THE HOLY LAND 143 and were only now discovered, would excite the admiration of all who look uponit, so deep, so wide, so long, so tunneled with graves, so overlooked by Jerusalemwalls. With enough books in my saddle-bags, on a horse sure-footed for themountain passes, and in good company, and within sight of Mount Olivet, andclose by the Garden of Gethsemane, and with the heavens and the earth full ofsunshine, we start on the famous road to Jericho. We pass through ravines andgorges, and by dark caves which might be an entrenc
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . IN THE HOLY LAND 143 and were only now discovered, would excite the admiration of all who look uponit, so deep, so wide, so long, so tunneled with graves, so overlooked by Jerusalemwalls. With enough books in my saddle-bags, on a horse sure-footed for themountain passes, and in good company, and within sight of Mount Olivet, andclose by the Garden of Gethsemane, and with the heavens and the earth full ofsunshine, we start on the famous road to Jericho. We pass through ravines andgorges, and by dark caves which might be an entrenchment for robbers like thosewhich the man fell among on his way to Jericho along this very road. We haveto-day met several groups of Bedouins, who, judging from their countenances,. JACOB s wiihh might be easily turned into bandits. But the supremacy of law, even though itbe Turkish law, and our accompaniment of twelve stout men, escorts and attend-ants, put us out of the clanger of being, like that previous traveler, stripped andwounded and left half dead. What scenery we are passing through! How anyman can be disappointed with the Holy Land I cannot understand. Some of thePalestine tourists have been chiefly impressed with the fleas, the filth and the beg-gars. To me the scenery, if it had no sacred associations, would be appallingly 144 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK majestic. There is nothing in America or Europe that surpasses it for a minglingof beauty and grandeur. WHERE THE RAVENS FED ELIJAH What is that ravine? I cried out to the dragoman. He says, That is thebrook Cherith, here is where the ravens fed Elijah. Are there any ravens in thisregion now ? I asked. Yes; they are large, in size between the buzzard and theeagle, and could carry a heavy p
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