Peasant life in the Holy Land . ne corner of the room. In cases, which are verynumerous, where the village is on a high hill a longdistance from the water-supply, this work is veryarduous, and must tend to shorten the lives of thewomen. Bringing the supply of firewood is another dutywhich falls to the lot of the women, and entailssevere labour. In some districts the firewood isobtained from scrub some miles distant, and partiesof women and girls may be met, bearing on theirheads long, heavy faggots of boughs of oak, tere-binth, arbutus, etc. In other parts, where no scrubor wood is found, they
Peasant life in the Holy Land . ne corner of the room. In cases, which are verynumerous, where the village is on a high hill a longdistance from the water-supply, this work is veryarduous, and must tend to shorten the lives of thewomen. Bringing the supply of firewood is another dutywhich falls to the lot of the women, and entailssevere labour. In some districts the firewood isobtained from scrub some miles distant, and partiesof women and girls may be met, bearing on theirheads long, heavy faggots of boughs of oak, tere-binth, arbutus, etc. In other parts, where no scrubor wood is found, they collect bundles of the Neteshthorn, or the white-flowered broom, called Retem,the juniper of 1 Kings xix. 5 (the Arabic andHebrew names for the plant being the same), ashrub very characteristic of the comparatively upperslopes of the hills leading do^^^l to the Jordan A^ the maritime plain and other parts, where thedhurra, or white millet {Sorghwu vulgare), is muchgrown, the dry stalks left in the fields after the ripe. FLOCK RESTING AT NOON, A- • -- ^* :--* WOMEN GOING TO DRAW WATER. Tofacepnrje 128. NEEDLEWORK 129 ears have been cut off are collected and stackedabout their houses for use as fuel in the winter-time. The women all know something of needlework,and some of them are very skilful at it. Theordinary work, such as is required in making theireveryday clothes, does not call for remark ; butsome of the gala dresses are very handsome, withmuch fine needlework on them. The veil wornover the head by the women of some villages hasthis kind of work in it. These veils are made ofa very coarse kind of native cotton cloth, and areworked with various patterns and devices in colouredcottons and silks. This work much resemblesthat of the old-fashioned samplers, which I canremember seeing, in my boyish days, old womenmaking in some rural districts of England, andwhich may still be occasionally seen framed andhung up in country cottages. Some of the de\iceson these veils
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