Things seen in Palestine . WATER-JAR - -109 A NATIVE HOUSE AT GEZER - - 113 JEZREEL - - - - 119 GIRLS OF A CHRISTIAN VILLAGE - - 125THE VILLAGE SPRING AT CANA OF GALILEE 1 33 TOWNSWOMEN BUYING CORN - -137 X List of Illustrations PAGE BETHANY - - - - 141 AN ANCIENT FOUNTAIN NEAR THE MOSQUE 145 THE SEA OF TIBERIAS - - - 149 IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES - 153 A BREAD-VENDOR - - - 157 A FAVOURITE RECREATION - - l65 THE TOWER OF THE FORTY MARTYRS - l69 THE DAMASCUS GATE - - - 173 MUHAMMEDANS FILLING THEIR WATER-JARS 177 A HISTORIC SPOT - - - 181 PILGRIMS RETURNING TO JERUSALEM - 185 NAZARETH - -
Things seen in Palestine . WATER-JAR - -109 A NATIVE HOUSE AT GEZER - - 113 JEZREEL - - - - 119 GIRLS OF A CHRISTIAN VILLAGE - - 125THE VILLAGE SPRING AT CANA OF GALILEE 1 33 TOWNSWOMEN BUYING CORN - -137 X List of Illustrations PAGE BETHANY - - - - 141 AN ANCIENT FOUNTAIN NEAR THE MOSQUE 145 THE SEA OF TIBERIAS - - - 149 IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES - 153 A BREAD-VENDOR - - - 157 A FAVOURITE RECREATION - - l65 THE TOWER OF THE FORTY MARTYRS - l69 THE DAMASCUS GATE - - - 173 MUHAMMEDANS FILLING THEIR WATER-JARS 177 A HISTORIC SPOT - - - 181 PILGRIMS RETURNING TO JERUSALEM - 185 NAZARETH - - - - 189 SHEPHERDS AT BETHLEHEM - - 197 THE JEWISH WAILING-PLACE AT JERUSALEM 201 THE CITY OF DAMASCUS - - - 205 A WATER-CARRIER - - - 209 BEDOUIN WOMEN - - - 213 xi List of Illustrations PAGE MEETING BY THE WAV - - - 220 THE COURT OF A HOUSE IN DAMASCUS - 223 THE CONVENT OF ST. GEORGE - - 227 JERUSALEM .... <233 A STREET IN JERUSALEM - - 237 THE BROOK KISHON AND MOUNT CARMEL 241 A NATIVE INN - 245 XII AT THE JAFFA GATE. MOUNTED BEDOUIN ARAB SHEIKH. Things Seen in Palestine CHAPTER IAT THE JAFFA GATE THERE is probably no country aboutwhich most of us have read so much,and of which we know so little, as the HolyLand. How many of us, for example, would notbe surprised to hear that the ordinarylanguage of Jerusalem is Arabic, that thereare not fifty Turks in the town, that mostof the Christian population belongs to theGreek Church, that the principal part ofthe European population is German, thattwo-thirds of the pilgrims are Russian, thatthe coinage is mainly French, and the agri-culture largely Jewish ? 15 Things Seen in Palestine And again, most of us find it difficult toconjure up any coherent picture of places,the names of which are so familiar, asJerusalem, Bethlehem, or Jericho. Wehave seen the conventional sacred pictures,and, apart from those in which the land-scape is Dutch or Italian, they present out-lines and colourings so unfamiliar, withtheir flat roofs, their bo
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