. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. ack, for the water was not deep enough to cover his body-He stirred up the black mud of the bottom as if a whale wereplunging in the small stream. On finishing his morning ablu-tions, he came out dripping with black muddy water, andstood on his blanket which he had placed at the edge of thestream and began to dry himself. The lynx-eyed dragomanespied him and ran towards him, cur
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. ack, for the water was not deep enough to cover his body-He stirred up the black mud of the bottom as if a whale wereplunging in the small stream. On finishing his morning ablu-tions, he came out dripping with black muddy water, andstood on his blanket which he had placed at the edge of thestream and began to dry himself. The lynx-eyed dragomanespied him and ran towards him, cursing in the loudest tonesand coarsest Arabic possible. He dragged the blanket sud-denly from under the feet of the bather and came within a jotof sending him reeling into the stream backwards. Then he 388 FROM JERUSALEM TO SAMARIA AND JENNIN. came rushing towards our tent holding up the blanket fromwhich a stream of dirty water was flowing, and asking whatwe thought of that. We replied we thought it was a dirtyblanket and nothing more, and that he would add to our com-fort if he would look after his own duties more and swear withdrew like a timid cur with his tail between his legs,and we left the EASTERN MODE OF WASHING HANDS. Chapter XVII. JEZREEL AND THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON.
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