. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . GROUP OF ARABS— THE JORDAN VALLEV. CHAPTER IV. FROM JERUSALEM TO BEISAN, MUZEYRIB, ANDDAMASCUS. Strike the innocent that the guilty may confess. Burckhardts Arabic Proverbs. FROM Jerusalem we journeyed northward to Bethel,to Hawara, to Nablous (the ancient Shechem),where live about eighty-five Samaritans, the solesurvivors of their ancient faith, and so to Jenin. At Jeninwe obtained an escort of two soldiers, and turning to theeastward we rode through the plain of Jezreel, passingAhabs Acropolis
. With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria . GROUP OF ARABS— THE JORDAN VALLEV. CHAPTER IV. FROM JERUSALEM TO BEISAN, MUZEYRIB, ANDDAMASCUS. Strike the innocent that the guilty may confess. Burckhardts Arabic Proverbs. FROM Jerusalem we journeyed northward to Bethel,to Hawara, to Nablous (the ancient Shechem),where live about eighty-five Samaritans, the solesurvivors of their ancient faith, and so to Jenin. At Jeninwe obtained an escort of two soldiers, and turning to theeastward we rode through the plain of Jezreel, passingAhabs Acropolis in a great darkness and storm of rainand wind, in which lightning flashes lit up the slopes ofthe hills, and illuminated the masses of cloud rolling upfrom Mount Carmel and the sea, as on the day when Elijah girded up his loins and ran before the kingschariot to the entrance of Jezreel ; past Mount Gilboa,where Saul and Jonathan were slain ; past the fountainof Gideon, to Beisan (the ancient Bethshean—Scytho-polis) a place containing some very extensive and inte-resting ruins ; down to the valley of the Jor
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