. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. him and Anna, said the guide as wehalted in the dim light. That tomb on the left is thetomb of Joseph, the husband of Mary. The smallchapel at the end of the grotto contains the empty tombof the risen virgin. On the road to Bethany we passed many trains ofpack mules, twenty or thirty in a train, and caravansof camels striding along in single file. A light rope orchain connected the leading camel with the others andkept them from straggling. The Arab who drove our carriage told us that he was ascholar. He explained by stating that he
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. him and Anna, said the guide as wehalted in the dim light. That tomb on the left is thetomb of Joseph, the husband of Mary. The smallchapel at the end of the grotto contains the empty tombof the risen virgin. On the road to Bethany we passed many trains ofpack mules, twenty or thirty in a train, and caravansof camels striding along in single file. A light rope orchain connected the leading camel with the others andkept them from straggling. The Arab who drove our carriage told us that he was ascholar. He explained by stating that he could con-verse fluently in four languages, besides his own nativeArabic tongue. These languages were Turkish, Rus-sian, Latin, and French, and in addition, he knew enoughEnglish to give some information to the tourists. Thelinguistic ignorance of the occupants of his carriageseemed to impress him with the idea that education inAmerica is neglected. Bethany, barely two miles distant from Jerusalem, isa poor little village with steep, rough, dirty lanes and. (219) 220 .4 TRIP TO THE ORIENT. a number of old and dilapidated small stone housesamid broken walls of other houses which evidently havebeen equally insignificant. One of these piles waspointed out by the Bethany guides as the ruins of thehome of Marv and Martha, and we were then taken to a
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