Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-12
On Shore Of the Sea Of GaIiIee,
MARou o4TU. 1867

MARCH oath, 1867.
DEAR CHILDREN:
1t has been my intention to send you a
letter from the Holy Land; and as this is
one of its most interesting places, think
you would like to have letter from here.
We have now been twenty days in Pales-
tine, and with the exception of five days,
have spent the time either in the tent or the
saddle. You will be surprised to hear that
in all the Holy Land there are no steam cars,
no steamboats,, no stages, not even cart or
wagon.
The roads are so rough and morrow that
all travel has to be done on horseback.
and all kinds of burthens are taken from
place to place on the backs of camels
mules or donkeys Even in the great city
of Jerusalem, where we spent five days,
we did not see anything on wheels. Then
again, except in the city just mention
ed, there are no hotels or boarding houses
This makes it necessary for travellers to live
in tents which must be taken along with
them from place to place. Our party con-
sists altogether, of three gentlemen and five
ladies' To every couple there is tent.
These tents with all our baggage are rolled
up and tied to the backs of mules, eleven
in number; and, at the close of each day,
we stop near spring or stream of water.
Here our tents are put up, some carpet spread
over the grass or the wild flowers, and beds
made on little iron bedsteads. 1t would
astonish you to see how quickly our guide
and his muleteers or attendants make neat
little canvas house for each couple, and pre-
pare very nice dinner. Perhaps you will
laugh when tell you how we fasten our
doors-not with looks and keys as you do
but with halt dozen pins. You may
thing we would be cold and get sick, but we
arc always very comfortable, although while
in bed we feel the wind blowing upon our
faces, We have no windows in our little
houses. Yet these last few nights we have
had light in our tents, for the moon shines
through our roof You will remember that
the climate of this country is warmer than
that of New York. Now shall take you
back to the beginning of our tour and tell
you something about the places we have
seen. The part of Palestine we saw first was
the City Of Jafa or, us it is called in the BIZ
BILE, Joppa. Here we leftthe steamer which
brought us from Egypt, a sail of two days.
Joppa you will remember is the place where
Jonah took ship from which he was thrown
overheard, and had remarkable interview
| hal fnr In ,ar.tnd Of tI,ran douc
Here, too, the Apostle Peter raised Tabitha
from the dead, and resided for several days
in the house of &C Simon the Tanner where
he saw that strange vision of beasts, and
heard the voice saying" Rise, Peter, kill
and eats" Acts TX, 36-46: X, 9-lS. 1t has
been so many centuries ago that these things
took place, that time and wars have more
than once left this city IN ruins. So, we
could not see the house where Peter lived,
on whose top he saw the vision, but we were
shown house, said to be built upon the
same place. We landed at Jaffa or Joppa
early in the morning, and left 1t in the mid
die of the afternoon. Walking through the
:, streets about noon we heard sounds Of voice.
as of school children at study. We wen
: into an old stone house with stone floors
a and found Greek school, the most promi
ncnt object being a poor boy about MIN
g years old lying on his back on the cold floor
Il with his hands and feet all tied together, cry
ing very loud. This was the style of punish
If ment After listening to them sing some
a thing very monotonous we came out a
mounted we found ourselves in few min
No utes in beautiful open country; onr roa
for some distance was hemmed on our bot
4, sides, with rows Of prickly pear, muc
n. higher than a mares head, and so thick as
bt prevent man or beast from trespassing upo
" nice groves of orange, lemon, and almon
or trees which they enclosed. Soon we wei
beyond these groves and came upon gre'
ID flat region, mostly covered over with graz
te and pretty little wild flowers, which gre
ap from soil remarkable FORTS richness. Hel
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