Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER XXIII. ALL ABOARD FOR JERUSALEM. A Stormy Day in March — A Test for Brave Hearts and Strong Stom-achs— Throwing Up Jonah—Going Ashore at Jaffa — How We GotDown the Ships Side — Dumping Passengers in the Small Boat — Upto the Ridge Pole and Down the Side of the Great Tent — A TerribleAccident — A Highwaymans Demand — Your Money or Your Life — A Near Approach — Unspeakable Filth — The House of Simon theTanner — Simons Vat — View from the Housetop — Our Rural Friendfrom New York State — Them
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER XXIII. ALL ABOARD FOR JERUSALEM. A Stormy Day in March — A Test for Brave Hearts and Strong Stom-achs— Throwing Up Jonah—Going Ashore at Jaffa — How We GotDown the Ships Side — Dumping Passengers in the Small Boat — Upto the Ridge Pole and Down the Side of the Great Tent — A TerribleAccident — A Highwaymans Demand — Your Money or Your Life — A Near Approach — Unspeakable Filth — The House of Simon theTanner — Simons Vat — View from the Housetop — Our Rural Friendfrom New York State — Them Jimkirridges —Through the HolyLand Behind a Steam Engine — The Sentimental Man — The Reward ofIndulging a Sentiment— Our Dragoman — How Abdallah Caught theDoctors Napping—When the Sun and the Moon Stood Still — TheDapper Conductor in His Red Fez — The Rose of E sailed from Alexandria onestormy day in March, and, aftera journey of some four andtwenty hours, reached ancientJaffa, the chief seaport of Jeru-salem. Joppa, or Jaffa as it is nowcalled, deserves its bad reputa-tion as the worst port in all theworld. Brave travelers whowill not blanch at any other ter-rors which a journey around theworld has in store for them, confess to an unworthy fear ofthis landing place, and strong stomachs which never rebelunder ordinary circumstances, however boisterous the seas,turn themselves inside out when they go ashore at this port. (435) 436 OX SHIPBOARD WITH JONAH. Throwing up Jonah becomes more than a figurativephrase in the roadstead of Jaffa, for it will be rememberedthat it was from this very town that the famous navigator ofold set sail, when, attempting to run away from Gods com-mand, he took ship for Tarshish. Modern navigators on the Syrian coast have not forgottenthe Bible story, for, whenever the sea is unusually rough,they say to this day,
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