. Six and one abroad. ns so much. After all, it is more civilized than their formermethod of forcible detainer and hold-up; it is also high financeof the modern order, and tho^e sheiks ought to have their pic-tures in the magazines and their feet dangling over the armsof mahogany chairs on Fifth Avenue. All the way down andback they rode along the line of our caravan—for there werehalf dozen carriages and hacks in our party—adopting everyartifice they could to impress us with a sense of their im-portance. After descending with many a zigzag and abrupt turn to the 134 Six and One Abroad foot of
. Six and one abroad. ns so much. After all, it is more civilized than their formermethod of forcible detainer and hold-up; it is also high financeof the modern order, and tho^e sheiks ought to have their pic-tures in the magazines and their feet dangling over the armsof mahogany chairs on Fifth Avenue. All the way down andback they rode along the line of our caravan—for there werehalf dozen carriages and hacks in our party—adopting everyartifice they could to impress us with a sense of their im-portance. After descending with many a zigzag and abrupt turn to the 134 Six and One Abroad foot of Olivet, we halted at the Apostles Fountain, one of thetwo springs between Jerusalem and our destination; many atime Jesus and his Apostles must have rested at this liquidsemi-colon in the sentence of their journeys to and fro fromthe Jordan and the cities there. Beyond the fountain, the roadwound and turned with the sinuous ravines and rose and dippedwith the hills until upon a ridge of rock twelve miles out from. GOING UP FROM JERUSALEM TO TERICO—NOTICE THE FINE ROADAND THE DEARTH OF TREES. Jerusalem it reached an inn which is declared, with what war-rant I know not, to stand on the exact spot where a certain manof Bible times fell among thieves. It is called the Good Samar-itan Inn. At once upon leaving this refreshing hospice we were in themidst of the wilderness of Judea, and it is hard to imaginea wilder scene—rock-ribbed, mis-shapen mountains, the mis-carriages of creation—a bewildering confusion of ossified anglesand petrified irregularities—a cyclopean scrap-pile without a Judea, Dead Sea, and Jordan 135 fragment of a curve of beauty or a single segment of ragged cliffs of one mountain almost dove-tailed into theconcavities of another, and there was no room in that hodge-podge of disorder to hang a valley or to erect a habitation. Didyou imagine that trees were necessary to the constitution of awilderness? Be disillusioned now, for in all the e
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