. Palestine and its transformation . THE FALLEN QUEEN 361 difficulty in procuring water enough to raise thecrops necessary for their support. In the modernvillage one traverses intricate passages betweenwalls of mud, and enters secluded courtyards,where women, shrieking at the sight of a strangeman, throw veils over their faces and run intothe houses. From the courtyards one climbsflights of narrow stone steps leading up the outerwalls to the tops of the houses, where one clam-bers over low mud walls separating one flat rooffrom another. Only thus is it possible to examinethe details of the Te
. Palestine and its transformation . THE FALLEN QUEEN 361 difficulty in procuring water enough to raise thecrops necessary for their support. In the modernvillage one traverses intricate passages betweenwalls of mud, and enters secluded courtyards,where women, shrieking at the sight of a strangeman, throw veils over their faces and run intothe houses. From the courtyards one climbsflights of narrow stone steps leading up the outerwalls to the tops of the houses, where one clam-bers over low mud walls separating one flat rooffrom another. Only thus is it possible to examinethe details of the Temple of the Sun, its groupsof columns, fine bits of carving, and misspelledGreek inscriptions, with the Palmyrene equiva-lents in strange, half-Arabic letters. Outside themodern village the ruins are more attractive, forthere one wanders unhampered among colon-nades and temples and over heaps of rubbish,looking here through an arch and there downa vista, always attractive, always and death are as all-pervading here
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