Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
Title | Page 116 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_134.jpg |
Transcript | ■■■■■■ MMBMI^HB i [6 PR Tl RESQl rE l\ ILESTINE. distance from us. Metal dishes containing meat 'etables, and cream were added to the feast, round which the sheikh, the priest, and the elders of the village assembled. They ate quickly and silently, dipping pieces of their thin leathery loaves into the dish fried j and cream, tearing the tender morsels of meat to pieces with their fingers, dipping their han ther into the mound of rice, and skilfully and neatly taking it up in pellets. When the\ d, they retired one after the other to wash their hands and to light their pipes. Their p *rere quickly taken by the younger men and boys in turn, and when they had all finished th ants gathered round, eating from the* same dishes, the simplest of which had M l'.v BEN y\mi\ (TOMB OF nil-' PROPHET BENJAMIN). A Mohammedan shrine aboal half a mile to tl A well of good water adjoins it In the foreground a peasant is guiding a primitive plough and a j en. iveral times replenished, and the thin loaves of bread were freely distributed S iA' people silently swallowed their supper, while we leisurely used our knives and forks. The fragments that remained after the feasl were no! carried away until all the men and I Of the village had eaten there, but the women a\\A children ate elsewhere and in privat and pipes W< in served, and by star and lantern light w< With the sheikh and a few ^( the vilj till nearly nine o'clock, when they retired. For a little while we could see lanterns flitting about, but soon all was quiet and silent, and every one wa who were appointed to keep the night watch. Did lights gleamed from the |