The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . h them. AVomen frequently refuse to ride in thepresence of men, and when a company of them are to passthrough a town, they often dismount and walk. It was, nodoubt, a point of Syrian etiquette for Eebekah to stop, de-scend from her camel, and cover herself with a veil in thepresence of her future husband. In a word, this Biblicalnarrative is so natural to one familiar with the East, so beau-tiful also, and life-like, that the entire scene seems to be anaflPair in whic
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . h them. AVomen frequently refuse to ride in thepresence of men, and when a company of them are to passthrough a town, they often dismount and walk. It was, nodoubt, a point of Syrian etiquette for Eebekah to stop, de-scend from her camel, and cover herself with a veil in thepresence of her future husband. In a word, this Biblicalnarrative is so natural to one familiar with the East, so beau-tiful also, and life-like, that the entire scene seems to be anaflPair in which he has himself been but recently an actor. DESCENT OF JACOBS SONS TO EGYPT. 407 XXXIX. HEBRON TO SANTA SABA. April 21st. Eeturning from my ramble down the vale of Hebron thismorning, I met a company of men and donkeys going outapparently for grain, and I was struck with the resembfanceof the animals themselves to those in pictures now found onthe monuments of Egypt. The saddles and sacks of someappeared to be precisely hke those used in the days whenthe sons of Jacob descended along the same valley to getcorn from Egypt. BGTPTIAN DOKKET8. Doubtless there has been but little change in all thesematters from that time to this, and the resemblance is oftenstill more exact from the fact that when the crops of thiscountry fiiil through drouth or other causes, the people stillgo down to Egypt to buy corn, as they did in the time ofthe patriarch. It has also frequently occurred to me, when 408 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. passing a large company of donkeys on their way to buyfood, that we are not to suppose that only the eleven don-keys on which the brethren of Joseph rode composed thewhole caravan. One man often leads or drives half a dozen ;and, besides, I apprehend that Jacobs sons had many serv-ants along with them. Eleven sacks of grain, such as don-keys would carry, would not sustain a household like hisfor a week. It is no objection to this supposition that theseservants are not men
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