. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . We may as well, right in the be-ginning, make up our minds not torely altogether on the English lan-guage. We shall need to learn some-thing of the Arabic, which is uni-versally spoken. One word willmeet us everywhere, and ring in ourears as we depart—the word Back-sheesh. It means a gift, and aseverything is to be had for gifts theword has many applications. Thuswith backsheesh the tardy opera-tions of the custom-house o
. In His footsteps : a record of travel to and in the land of Christ : with an attempt to mark the Lord's journeyings in chronological order from His birth to His Ascension . We may as well, right in the be-ginning, make up our minds not torely altogether on the English lan-guage. We shall need to learn some-thing of the Arabic, which is uni-versally spoken. One word willmeet us everywhere, and ring in ourears as we depart—the word Back-sheesh. It means a gift, and aseverything is to be had for gifts theword has many applications. Thuswith backsheesh the tardy opera-tions of the custom-house officerare accelerated, backsheesh suppliesthe place of a passport, backsheeshis the alms bestowed on a beggar,backsheesh means blackmail, and,lastly, a large proportion of the officials of the country aresaid to live almost exclusively on backsheesh. The nativesregard every traveler as a Crccsus. In every village thetraveler is assailed with crowds of ragged, half-naked chil-dren shouting, Backsheesh, backsheesh, ya khowaja ! Thebest reply is to complete the rhyme with JSla fish, ma fish(There is nothing), which will generally have the effect ofdispersing them. 26. Over Sea to Bethlehem FROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM. Everything having been arranged with our dragoman, weset off in good season for that city whose name and historywill live longest with the race—Jerusalem, the type and sym-bol of our heavenly home. It is but forty-one miles fromJaffa. We pass through the Jeru-salem Gate and turn toward thesoutheast, passing higli cactushedges with orchards behind pass the house of Tabitha (Actsix, ^6), the plain of Sharon, Lyddaa little to our left, Ramleh, foundedabout 700 B. C, and Ajalon,where Joshua commanded the sunto stand still upon Gibeon, andthe moon in the valley of Ajalon,There are numer-ous other placesidentified withtowns and villa-ges of Scripture,but we cannotpause to examinethem. FroniKu-loniyeh, four andone half milesfrom Jersusalem,which some iden-tify with
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