Peasant life in the Holy Land . he rarecases where there are permanent streams or irriga-tion, and the leaves of the deciduous trees are fall-ing, the only green in many places being that of theolive. The passing traveller who sees the shepherdleading his flock over the bare brown hillside ordesert-like plain wonders how the sheep and goatscan possibly exist. The winter torrents have long since ceased torun, the shallower springs have become dry, andthe permanent ones have shrunk to their lowestebb. The rain-fed cisterns, the sole water-supplyof many a village, have in numerous cases beendrain
Peasant life in the Holy Land . he rarecases where there are permanent streams or irriga-tion, and the leaves of the deciduous trees are fall-ing, the only green in many places being that of theolive. The passing traveller who sees the shepherdleading his flock over the bare brown hillside ordesert-like plain wonders how the sheep and goatscan possibly exist. The winter torrents have long since ceased torun, the shallower springs have become dry, andthe permanent ones have shrunk to their lowestebb. The rain-fed cisterns, the sole water-supplyof many a village, have in numerous cases beendrained to the last drop, and in the majority ofthose which are not exhausted the depth of wateris measured by inches only. The Shirocco, or eastwinds from the Syrian desert, have swept with theirscorching breath over the land. The heavy redloam, which constitutes so large a part of thearable soil of Palestine, is baked into strong clodswhich the feeble plough cannot break. Wild birdsand animals have become bold in their thirst, and. ; ^^tmx ?iVri -^^fn
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