. Eight journeys abroad. ite you. We spent yesterday underCooks tuition going about in carriages seeing the sights, thegrand Mosque, the tomb of Saladin and the window whereSt. Paul was let down from the house on the wall and thehome of Ananias and Judas and Naaman. There are fewthings to see, apart from the life in the streets, and inthe Bazaars, which are merely covered streets. Yesterdaywas the last feast day and the streets were crowded with peo-ple and carriages and camels and donkeys, and it is a constantpanorama—Persians, Syrians, Turks, Arabs, &c., in their dif-ferent costumes. 477 EIG
. Eight journeys abroad. ite you. We spent yesterday underCooks tuition going about in carriages seeing the sights, thegrand Mosque, the tomb of Saladin and the window whereSt. Paul was let down from the house on the wall and thehome of Ananias and Judas and Naaman. There are fewthings to see, apart from the life in the streets, and inthe Bazaars, which are merely covered streets. Yesterdaywas the last feast day and the streets were crowded with peo-ple and carriages and camels and donkeys, and it is a constantpanorama—Persians, Syrians, Turks, Arabs, &c., in their dif-ferent costumes. 477 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD The Bavada river rushes through and they make a greatfuss over it, but it is not much as a river. The beauty ofDamascus Hes in its position in a fertile plain with the mostbeautiful mountains as a frame. We went up on the terrace(house top) last eve and the panorama was glorious. Theexquisite purplish tints of the Mountains and the warmecru of the houses and walls, with cypress trees and minarets. A GATE IN DAMASCUS relieving the monotony of color, apricot and other fruit treesin full bloom and the evergreen, orange and lemon trees anddown under a canopy the faithful saying their prayers, andcamels going by, and donkeys, and now and then a dervishwith high stove pipe hat without a brim. Yesterday we were taken to see a Jewish house and thena Christian one. Both were entered by very small doors in acommon wall from a street not over 15 feet wide, first came a 478 CONSTANTINOPLE, THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT large court yard paved with marble inlaid pavement withorange and lemon trees; from that we entered a very fine hallwith fountain at one end, magnificently carved marble, andthe other half raised about 2 feet above and intended to becovered with rugs and used as a summer room. The wallswere all marble, carved in some places into trees and leavesfully 18 inches deep. I dont suppose there is anything inNew York to compare with it in costliness. On going outin th
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