Narrative of a ride through the countries of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, into Syria; in the month of August, 1872, with Youhannah el Karey, of Nablūs - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...every opportunity to make all necessary preparation, and to respond to a request which reached us, that we should visit the sick baby once more before leaving Nablils. We did so, and found his progress everything that we could expect, and with the most hearty acknowledgments on the part of his parents and grandmother, we left him. I have since learned, by a letter from Mr. El Karey, that the improvement continued unto a complete recovery. In the afternoon, as my companion's clean shirts, and other provisions for the journey, were being laid out ready for packing, looking up from a letter which I was writing, I saw the cat jumping from a chair, and carrying off bodily a piece of mutton which had been cooked, cooled, and placed in readiness for our commissariat-bag. I happily raised an alarm in time to save the mutton, which, with hard boiled eggs and khubbs (Arab bread), was duly stowed. My companion's spare things occupied the holsters at his saddle-bows, and when at 3.30 p.m. it was announced, "The horses are come," I was not long in producing my portmanteau and saddle-bags., By 5 p.m. everything was ready, and, taking leave of our kind friends, we mounted. Let not the reader imagine that we were beyond the range of all detention. One or two who had been concerned in our obtaining the mount, now came forward, and, at the outskirts of the town, in the presence of witnesses (Ruth iv. 7-9) made a parley, which occupied some time, before my companion felt justified in acknowledging their claims, which however he at length did, to some extent. We now took leave of Sychar, or Shechem, whither Abraham journeyed and where the Lord appeared to him and gave him the promise, "Unto thy seed will I give this land;" and there he builded an...
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