Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-13

Friday. July srd.-After several
frultless endeavors the day before to
get a muleteer on reasonable terms to
a muleteer on reasonable terms to
take me back to Nazareth. 1 at last
obtained one by waking up the hotel
servant in the middle Of the night.
About a. m, just at the break of day
an Arab with a grey horse appeared
at the hotel door; and l, being in
readiness. mounted at once. and start
ed on my return trip to Nazareth, but
taking a more northerly route than
the one leading past Mount Tabor
After climbing the long hill We tray
elcd through Il broken country 20 the
village of Lubiyeh, which lies on hill
OF considerable height. Immediately
north of the village, in narrow val
ley, we passed n great number of the
inhabitants, both men and women,
engaged in harvesting barley in real
oriental fashion. Every village has
its common threshing floor. and In
every town through which ! have
passed SO far in Palestine some of the
people have been engaged In thresh-
ing grain in ancient fashion. My mu-
letter falling behind. as he was walk
| ing and the animal l rode was good
! traveller, l took the wrong road; and
before the native could overtake me l
had reached the little village of Tu-
ran. situated on the north boundary
Of the plain Of Buttauf, and surround
ed by a greater growth of cactus
than l have ever seen up to date in
any part of the world. Near by,
however, there are some fine olive
! groves. Changing our course we
now crossed the valley or plain men
toned in "A southwcsterly direction
In doing which | saw the longest cara
van that l had seen yet. There were
over seVenty-tiVe CumelS travelling N
string nearly u mile long from the
sea Inland. We soon reached Ken
Kenna, the ancient Cana in Galilct
where Jesus changed water to wine
Here | visited the Greek church where
the hyprocritical-lo looking priest showed
me, among other things, one of thu
earthenware jars claimed to have beer
used at the time of the miracle. tJOhr
.: lib There were also a number o
beautiful pictures of the church WALL
illustrative of Bible scenes. Cana Il
about four miles northeast Of Nazar
eth and lies between the lower hill
bordering the plain of Buttau
on the south. 1t has ahou
500 inhabitants, half of whom are Mus
Inns and the remainder mostly Gree
Christians with few Latins an
, Pedestrians. Immediately south of tn
village is the only spring of the neigh
borhood, from which | drank waite
: and by which we rested for n shoi
time. If the Kefr Kenna really is tn
J, ancient Cana, the tradition allcgn
! that from this spring was obtained III
= water which Christ turned into win
u is undoubtedly correct.
From Kefr Kenna the road leads u
among the hills, and after crossing se'
:, eral ridges and passing several village
u we reached Nazareth about IL:
= o'clock a. m. Among the villages nam,
. between Cana and Nazareth was
:, Meshhed. the ancient Gath rpher,
X town in the territory of Zebulon M
y the birthplace of the Prophet iona
u e Kings "A: 25) The tomb of tn
" Prophet is shown here.
" on my arrival in Nazareth / di
missed my muleteer, after which
" spent the afternoon taking in {
40 sights of that town. First, I visit