Peasant life in the Holy Land . aints honour. The Christian peasants are not so scrupulous,and do sometimes employ the fallen wood sur-reptitiously, for domestic purposes. On Thursday evenings, the day on which theIMohammedans visit the graves of their dead, littleoil-lamps are often lit in the AVelys in honour of thesaints buried there. Some even of the Christianwomen, in the more ignorant and out-of-the-wayvillages, observe this custom. Travelling about the country one often sees bythe wayside little piles of stones a foot or eighteeninches high, formed of single stones, sometimes tothe numb
Peasant life in the Holy Land . aints honour. The Christian peasants are not so scrupulous,and do sometimes employ the fallen wood sur-reptitiously, for domestic purposes. On Thursday evenings, the day on which theIMohammedans visit the graves of their dead, littleoil-lamps are often lit in the AVelys in honour of thesaints buried there. Some even of the Christianwomen, in the more ignorant and out-of-the-wayvillages, observe this custom. Travelling about the country one often sees bythe wayside little piles of stones a foot or eighteeninches high, formed of single stones, sometimes tothe number of five or six, dexterously poised oneon the top of another. These miniature pillars arein honour of some famous AVely, and are usuallyfound at the point where it first becomes visible, orfrom which a specially good view of it can beobtained. As instances of these Kanatir, as theyare called, may be mentioned those a little aboveBethel, where, on approaching from the north, thefirst distant view of Jerusalem is obtained ; and. A VILLAGE EAST OF TUE JOKDAX.
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