. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . of the evening sun we even saw, or thoughtwe saw, as far as the castle hill of Salkad, fifty or sixtymiles off. At sunset, the cattle from all the country roundand goats innumerable came to drink at the poolby the little town, and to lie under the protectionof its houses until dawn, when after drinking theirfull again, they went forth once more to graze. Everypath leading over the plains to the east or up intothe hills which, beginning at El Husn, rise into theJebel Ajilun to the west was marked by long
. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . of the evening sun we even saw, or thoughtwe saw, as far as the castle hill of Salkad, fifty or sixtymiles off. At sunset, the cattle from all the country roundand goats innumerable came to drink at the poolby the little town, and to lie under the protectionof its houses until dawn, when after drinking theirfull again, they went forth once more to graze. Everypath leading over the plains to the east or up intothe hills which, beginning at El Husn, rise into theJebel Ajilun to the west was marked by long linesof these animals, preceded by their shepherds, armedwith their long flint-lock guns. The scene remindedus of one of those widespread plains depicted by theDutch master, Philip de Koening in which lines offigures of diminishing size lengthen out the the sky was not the humid sky of Holland; thebrilliant cloudless heaven of Syria hung over all, forthe rain was over and gone, and only the beautiful 27o WITH THE BEDUINS. freshness which it left in herb and wild flower and. DRUSE SHEIK OF SALKAD AND HIS SERVANT. waving crops of corn remained to tell of its havingbeen. THE GREEK PRIEST OF EL HUSN. 271 A Greek priest (not the one whom we had seen herein 1888) came up the hill to our tents to ask formoney. We had but very little with us, and aconsiderable journey was still to be made before wecould reach Jerusalem again : so we only presentedhim with half a medjidie. He protested that this wasno gift at all, and asked for more ; offering to returnour little present as beneath his notice. But Georgetold him that we had been robbed and were veryshort of money, and that we had been thinking ofborrowing somewhat for our necessities from hearing this threatening intelligence the goodman started up from his chair in great haste, cryingout that he would pray for us, and taking the silverpiece with him (as half a loaf is better than no bread)vanished with the utmpsf
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