Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-14
IN THE MUDDY JORDAN.
TribuIations of Foreigners Who Battle
in the Famous Waters.

in the Famous Waters.
Palestine Cor. Nel0 Orleans Times Democrat
Bathing in the muddy Jordan is merely
nominal enjoyment. Bathing in the Dead
Sea is dangerous to the eyes and mouth
if you have any sores or cuts on your
body, exceedingly unpleasant. The bath
ing in Galilee by moonlight am prepared
10 vote a success.
The convent where we stopped, at
Liberals, abuts upon the lake near one of
the beaches most frequented by modern
Rebekahs. On both of the nights which
we passed on the lake shore we took oc-
casion to prove this. Only one thing
married the perfect enjoyment and that
was the nature of the beach, which was
pebbly instead of sandy. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY a rare treat for the Rebekahs to
witness our additions, as they increased
rapidly in number when it became nOised
about town that real white men"
were in the water, and they
taTried obviously longer than
was necessary in order to fill their
jars. They would come close to us, re-
mark ''Warhabar'' (the universal Arabic
salutatiOn, signifying ''welcOme"), and
then litter as we answered back cOurte-
Ously, "Warhabar teen." ("Welcome to
you, also.") AS | have intimated, we only
held the boards there for two nights; but
| am confident that our audiences would
have cOmprehended all the people in the
region round about if we had remained a
week.
The second night an incident occurred
which serves admirably to illustrate Arab
mot BedOuin) character. A man threw
a stone at US from the beach after our au-
dience of maidens had reluctantly re-
tired.
''DOn't mind it." said Mr.. Floyd, she's
trying to pick up fuss with us after a
characteristic fashion. Let him 90 to the
end of mis- rope
Pretty soon another stone followed, and
then another, and another, the last in
rather close proximity to us. AT this Mr..
Floyd said the time was ripe, and going
up out of the water stood on the beach
facing the missile thrOWer and the crowd
about the latter. Advancing brusquely
| he then demanded in Arabic:
''lmpudent brute, who are you, I'd like
to kDOw?'
"He's a great sheik," chorused the
| crowd, ''and you don't want to touch him,
or We'll make you sorry"
every WE'LL" returned Mr.. Floyd; 'I'm
ready to fight the whole crowd of you,
! though naked and unarmed. Many a
time 've annihilated dozen men at once,
all stronger than any Of you, and Pm just
| itching 10 make mince-meat out Of you
babies. Lookl" and with a stick he
rapidly drew a circle around the spot
| where he stood. 1.-THE first man who
| crosses that line I'll grind to pOwderw
A moments silence followed, and then
| the leader skunk off, followed by his brave
cohorts. One or two remained behind to
try and patch up a truce by pretending
/ that the ssg-r-e-a-t sheik' was only a
mailman, but Mr.. Floyd was too familiar
with Arab tricks to swallow that, and
told them he'd rather they'd throw stones
| than to try to make him out a fool by
| passing off such a fiimsy explanation
| upon him. OF course it was all done by
means OF bluff, and we had a hearty
laugh afterward to think how ridicu-
| lousy absurd it was tor one naked man
to face semi-armed crowd in this way.
| Mr.. Floyd's last words were:
"Great heaYensl Why, your sultan
wouldn't dare to treat me in this way"
HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE.
Raanlfa