The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ journeyed at their ease. At one place wheat wasgrowing both right and left of the track. More stone cow-housesappeared on ledges of the hills, and new clusters of black tents andreed houses on the low ground. There were in all twenty-four of thesehouses in one village, some with the round top covered with camel-wooltent-cloth. A camel and some horses and cattle were about, and somevery dirty children, in great glee, driving three kids. A man sat out-side one of the houses, weaving in a rude frame the reed mats of whichthey are built; the reeds, twelve feet high
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ journeyed at their ease. At one place wheat wasgrowing both right and left of the track. More stone cow-housesappeared on ledges of the hills, and new clusters of black tents andreed houses on the low ground. There were in all twenty-four of thesehouses in one village, some with the round top covered with camel-wooltent-cloth. A camel and some horses and cattle were about, and somevery dirty children, in great glee, driving three kids. A man sat out-side one of the houses, weaving in a rude frame the reed mats of whichthey are built; the reeds, twelve feet high, growing at this place upto the very road. A strip of beans was to be seen at the Zech. w- 7. 2 Isa, i. 29, 3 Ezek. vi. 13. 4 Hos. iv. 13. 5 1 Kings xix. -^LVII.] MEKOM, DAN, BELFOR. 583 A little further on, a in:vii jiassed with a long goad in his hand, andon my asking him to let me see it, kindly handed it to me. On oneend there was a small spud, or spade, to clear the coulter from earthwhen ploughing; at the other a sharp iron point stuck out, with shortiron chains in loops below it: the prick to urge on the cattle; thechains to startle them into activity by the sudden noise when theywere rattled. This is the goad against which it was foolish for the oxto kick: an implement so familiar to St. Paul from daily observation,that it could be used as a figure by our Lord in the heavenly vision.^As we came to the head of the reed-beds, the Arab reed and tent vil-lages increased in number, and I was pleased to see long drains cut inthe swamp, through the black soil, so that the now firm surface couldbe ploughed. The ground from the road to the hills on our left wasvery stony, and the reed houses presented the new feature of havingtheir roof
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