The Holy Land and Syria . The children are what we like best in the Holy Land, even though theyhave generally learned from their elders the habit of begging for backsheesh. The ass of this sheeted Balaam upcns his mouth but onl\ a braycomes forth. The roads are so fearful that many places ma\ not bereached by wheeled vehicles and the sure-footed donkey is usually thebest mount BY RAILWAY TO THE LAND OF JUDEA about fourteen thousand dollars a year on such work,most of the sums being collected in amounts of five dol-lars or less from English and Americans all over theworld. The Fund has made gre


The Holy Land and Syria . The children are what we like best in the Holy Land, even though theyhave generally learned from their elders the habit of begging for backsheesh. The ass of this sheeted Balaam upcns his mouth but onl\ a braycomes forth. The roads are so fearful that many places ma\ not bereached by wheeled vehicles and the sure-footed donkey is usually thebest mount BY RAILWAY TO THE LAND OF JUDEA about fourteen thousand dollars a year on such work,most of the sums being collected in amounts of five dol-lars or less from English and Americans all over theworld. The Fund has made great discoveries in Je-rusalem. It has surveyed and mapped a great part ofPalestine and has added many Bible sites to those al-ready known. 29 CHAPTER V FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA THE size of Palestine is surprising to every know it is small, but you cannot appreciatehow small it is until you have travelled over you see why it has been called the leastof all lands. The whole country does not average morethan fifty miles wide, and it is only about a hundred andforty miles long. You could lose it in many of the countiesof Texas, and on some of its mountai


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