The innocents abroad; . ttle-field of the nations—only sets one to dreaming of Joshua, and Benhadad, and Saul,and Gideon ; Tamerlane, Tancred, Coeur de Lion, and Salad in;the warrior Kings of Persia, Egypts heroes, and Napoleon—for they all fought here. If the magic of the moonlight couldsummon from the graves of forgotten centuries and many landsthe countless myriads that have battled on this wide, far-reaching floor, and array them in the thousand strange cos-tumes of their hundred nationalities, and send the vast hostsweeping down the plain, splendid with plumes and bannersa^d glittering la
The innocents abroad; . ttle-field of the nations—only sets one to dreaming of Joshua, and Benhadad, and Saul,and Gideon ; Tamerlane, Tancred, Coeur de Lion, and Salad in;the warrior Kings of Persia, Egypts heroes, and Napoleon—for they all fought here. If the magic of the moonlight couldsummon from the graves of forgotten centuries and many landsthe countless myriads that have battled on this wide, far-reaching floor, and array them in the thousand strange cos-tumes of their hundred nationalities, and send the vast hostsweeping down the plain, splendid with plumes and bannersa^d glittering lances, I could stay here an age to see the phan- 524 HOME OF DEBORAH, THE PROPHETESS. torn pageant. But the magic of the moonlight is a vanity anda fraud; and whoso putteth his trust in it shall suffer sorrowand disappointment. Down at the foot of Tabor, and just at the edge of the sto-ried Plain of Esdraelon, is the insignificant village of Deburieh,where Deborah, prophetess of Israel, lived. It is just CHAPTER L. YTTE descended from Mount Tabor, crossed a deep ravine,? ? and followed a hilly, rocky road to Nazareth—distanttwo hours. All distances in the East are measured by hours,not miles. A good horse will walk three miles an hour overnearly any kind of a road ; therefore, an hour, here, alwaysstands for three miles. This method of computation is both-ersome and annoying; and until one gets thoroughly accus-tomed to it, it carries no intelligence to his mind until he hasstopped and translated the pagan hours into Christian miles,just as people do with the spoken words of a foreign languagethey are acquainted with, but not familiarly enough to catchthe meaning in a moment. Distances traveled by human feetare also estimated by hours and minutes, though I do notknow what the base of the calculation is. In Constantinopleyou ask, How far is it to the Consulate ? and they answer, About ten minutes. How far is it to the Lloyds Agency? Quarter of an hour. How far
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