The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-10

that perilous position hurl their spears
| for mary yards Recovering their
weapons, they career upon the plain,
| taking the tallest bushes in their fly
| ing leaps till, fresh as when the exer-
| else began, they lower their spear
| points once more before our caval-
cade, and pat their nimble nags with
all the fervor of father for his child.
| We find these men full OF fun and
| frolic-ready to laugh at jokes as well
as perpetrating them at our expense.
| They get us to undress and bathe in
the Dead Sea, and urging our way
| somewhat incautiously over the
smooth shining stones that lead from
the hot beach into the sea, we make a
| slip and down we go, much to the
| amusement of all bystanders. The
water is peculiarly gluey and greasy
having the same effect when taken
inwardly as glauber salts. Speaking
of giauber salts, reminds me of the
ways of physicians in the East.
No diploma is required, but in
Beloochistan every doctor is OBJ
liged to take an equal dose
with every one which he prescribes.
Moreover, If the patient dies, the lhy-
sician may be put to death by friends
of the deceased, and generally sub
mits like a good Hakim to his fate,
much to the relief of surviving doc
tors.
If you would enjoy the poetry of
motion, mount camel for flying
race amid the sand whirls of the de-
sert. The animals spongy foot, when
pressed against the ground makes the
uneven places level 10 the rider. All
rocky inequalities become smooth.
lawn like velvet to his tread, and
with swaying movement, like the
rocking OF shallop in the waves,
with that great, grisly arch of neck
before you, while an eye (the only
tender thing about cameD, turns
back now and then in calm reproach,
you leave all care behind you, as IL
translanted to another sphere upon
the wings of wind. But these beasts,
far-famed for patience and endurance,
looked on as the ideal of submission TO
authority, are after all Ito come down
to sober fact), the most uncomfortable
and grumbling animals in existence.
To be sure their owners do abuse them
shockingly, sometimes using stones
instead of sticks with which to beat
them, till their hair is torn away and
nothing but the rough and ugly india
rubber looking hide is left.
But, to conclude as we began, life
in Palestine is not such as 1t was when
the first Christians walked underneath
S'4e palms and stood upon the hills of
{. adah and Jerusalem.
1t is related of the famous Sultan
Mahmond that when near his end,
that in three days
great review was TO occur, he ordered
his attendants TO conceal his death
and to array his body ut the window
of his palace, that the troops might
celebrate his burial rites as they had
often celebrated his birthday festi-
val. The Sultan died; his slaves
obeyed his word, and there, propped
up before the eyes of the assembled
army, resplendaut even i'm his death,
with well-known cloak about him.
capped with the we'll known feZ bear
ing its diamond aigrette; with opera
glass in his cold hand, the body of the
was addressed with loud
acclaim, as citizens and soldiers
shouted "Long live Mahmond.o
Like this, today, the spendor of old
oriental history lives but in the SEM
Glance of the past. A troop OF hire
Ings survives it; there is a cry:
!. Long live the glory of the mighty
Eastern world" Let, then, such scenes
Is we have pictured link the scientific
present to the dreamy past Let the
ew relics of old patriarcnal days, vet
o be seen in Eastern lands, at least
ecure belief in that grand record of
he early eras on which our faith, our
lope, our destiny depends.