. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. ay into the row-boats as they rose on the swellof the waves. The boats were large and built expresslyfor this dangerous harbor. Each boat was managedby eight men, six rowers, a helmsman, and a bowman,and each boat carried about twenty passengers. As theSyrians labored hard at the oars they chanted continu-ally a prayer to Allah for a fair passage. After safely landing at the stone steps of the dock,we proceeded through the streets to the special trainwhich was waiting to carry us up to Jerusalem, notstopping to visit the traditional
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. ay into the row-boats as they rose on the swellof the waves. The boats were large and built expresslyfor this dangerous harbor. Each boat was managedby eight men, six rowers, a helmsman, and a bowman,and each boat carried about twenty passengers. As theSyrians labored hard at the oars they chanted continu-ally a prayer to Allah for a fair passage. After safely landing at the stone steps of the dock,we proceeded through the streets to the special trainwhich was waiting to carry us up to Jerusalem, notstopping to visit the traditional house of Simon, thetanner, where the Apostle Peter had a vision on theroof. The oranges of Jaffa are noted as being the finest in 192 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. the world. Dont fail to buy some, said a gentlemanfrom California. We raise good oranges in my state,but ours are^not quite equal to those of Jaffa. Arab men and boys surrounded the tourists at thestation offering carefully packed baskets, each contain-ing two or three dozen fresh, juicy oranges at what. IT WAS A TYPICAL SYRIAN GROUP. seemed an extremely low price. When the train startedevery compartment contained one or more baskets ofthe delicious fruit. The journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem was literallyup; for the Sacred City is nearly three thousand feet BOSPORUS TO PALESTINE. 193 above the sea, and four hours was required for the trip offifty-four miles. After leaving Jaffa the train passedthrough a succession of interesting panoramic views:gardens where richness of soil was manifested by therankness of the growth of the plants and flowers; groupsof palm trees with long, rough trunks, and tufted headshigh in the air; long rows of tall, narrow-leaved, ever-green eucalyptus trees; orchards of orange trees whereyellow fruit clustered amid the glossy dark green leaves;orchards of almond trees covered with a delicate pinkbloom; and orchards of gray olive trees with a carpetof grass underneath, as beautiful as a park; bare fig
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