Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . nt along by the upper branch ofthe Jordan to Hasbeya. We had on our left the mount Al Perdous—that is to say, Paradise ; why so named,could not be guessed, unless it be that it seemed forbiddento the hungry or thirsty sons of Adam, and that in itsperfectly barren way it was beautiful, being unjagged inform, and spotless and pure in tint of its virgin rock, Issa had escaped further argument over the continuityof the Mosaic prohibition respecting the ducks, by losingthem from his saddle on our scrambling ride from Ill PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHO
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . nt along by the upper branch ofthe Jordan to Hasbeya. We had on our left the mount Al Perdous—that is to say, Paradise ; why so named,could not be guessed, unless it be that it seemed forbiddento the hungry or thirsty sons of Adam, and that in itsperfectly barren way it was beautiful, being unjagged inform, and spotless and pure in tint of its virgin rock, Issa had escaped further argument over the continuityof the Mosaic prohibition respecting the ducks, by losingthem from his saddle on our scrambling ride from Ill PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 6i Melhaha. It was no trouble to me to be saved furtherdiscussion on the matter, as his master, from his connec-tion with the Jewish Mission, would not wish to haveraised unpleasant prejudices on the part of the nativesagainst European latitudinarianism in religious principles. While taking my walks in Hasbeya, I was surprised atfinding sculptured relief representing animals (camels and,I think, elephants) above the door of the principal palace. /F. H. H. HASBEYA. in the great piazza. While I stood speculating as toits origin, the muezzin priest came down from the minaretand joined me. I asked him as to its builders, and to mysurprise he said at once that the founders of the Moslemfamily then living in the palace had erected it, and placed thesculptured decoration there. I objected that in Syria therewas no known instance of Moslems representing animalsin ornamentation, that it was only in Persia and Moroccothat earlier artistic instincts had made Mohammed scaution against the representations of living beings not an 62 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. absolute interdiction ; but he evidently did not knowenough of Mahomedan dogma to understand the point,and I found that he had never suspected there could beany doubt that a building which was the pride of theplace, could have been raised by other than people of hisown religion. His warmth convinced me that it was notwell to pu
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