The Holy Land and the Bible; . ft for Joppa not a little refreshed by thehome-made bread and butter, both excellent, with milk. My friendhad some of the local wine, and pronounced it excellent. The sandyroad, nowhere made, was at times pretty rough, in the hollowswashed out by winter storms. Red anemones, bunches of lupins fromlast years sowing, and tufts of squills brightened the open ground aswe drove on; but Sharon, at its best, is very far from coming up toEnglish ideas of fertility and beauty. CHAPTER V. THE PHILISTINE PLAIN AND SAMSONS COUNTRY. Leaving Joppa, with its strange crowds, my
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ft for Joppa not a little refreshed by thehome-made bread and butter, both excellent, with milk. My friendhad some of the local wine, and pronounced it excellent. The sandyroad, nowhere made, was at times pretty rough, in the hollowswashed out by winter storms. Red anemones, bunches of lupins fromlast years sowing, and tufts of squills brightened the open ground aswe drove on; but Sharon, at its best, is very far from coming up toEnglish ideas of fertility and beauty. CHAPTER V. THE PHILISTINE PLAIN AND SAMSONS COUNTRY. Leaving Joppa, with its strange crowds, my last reminiscences of itare made up of a confused dream of masons sitting cross-legged, chip-ping stones from Caesarea, for the new Christian hospital; stone-breakers squatted in the same way across half the market-place, frac-turing obdurate metal in stone mortars, to spread on the road; stringsof donkeys and camels moving hither or thither, and a general hub-bub of buyer and seller filling the air. A four-wheeled vehicle had. Kefr Saba fruiu tlie East. CSee jiage 41.) v.] THE PHILISTINE PLAIN AND SAMSONs COUNLRY. 57 been hired for my journey: u rough open alYair, screened at the roofand sides with canvas to keep otf the sun. The driver wore a feltskull-cap, dignified into a makeshift turban by a pocket-liandkerchieftwisted round it. His coat, worn over a blue blouse, was of woolenstuff, fancifully ornamented down the back with crimson, while thearms were of one ])attern to the elbow, and another below it. Lebanonhad the credit of its manufacture, though it would have been veryhard to say through how many hands it may have passed before itreached those of our Jehu. Three horses, veritable screws, but wirywitlial, drew us; two of them boasting headstalls and collars, madeuseful if not ornamental by a free application of pieces of rope; thethird arrayed in nothing at all but some ropes. Of course each animalhad its galls and raw places; no horse used in harness in Palestine iswi
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