The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-11

VI I1tSCJ white dHu llhc d Idii-NCi y
over it, fitted down into the ocean at
the eastern horizon. AS / looked I
saw two lines of hay gray rise up
as 1t were out of the water, which rip
pied in sapphire waveletS, caught by
the sun. The first line was the sandy
beach that edges the rich plains o.
Sharon and the second the wall Of
smoky Sray which marks the hills Of
Judea or the highlands Of Palestine.
Coming nearer these lines increased in
size, and the first turned to dazzling,
white sand, out of which a little later
the wooded green strip of the port OF
JANA came intO view. Nearer still we
could see the shipping in the harbor,
and above IN behind it the walls OF
Jaffa, one of the oldest towns or the
Wrold.
III tic Footsteps OF Jonah.
We get some idea Of the age Of
Jaffa from the story Of Jonah; for the
5lble says that it was from here
Jonah took passage upon the snfu
from which he was thrown overheard
INTO the mouth of the whale. re re-
manned in the whales belly three
days, during which time he prayed to
the Lord, and the Lord spake 10 this
Wndie. Whcrcupon he was vomited out
upon dry land. Jonah was born aoou,
$50 years before Christ. He was a
haDy When Homer was telling the
story Of the Had, and a hundred wears
mad Yet to eiapse before the founding
of Rome | am not sure as 10 the
exact spot where Jonah wa taken up
by the sailors and thrown into the
sea, but he IS said to have been buried
not far from Jerusalem, and there
are dragomen in Palestine who will
show o his tomb.
Ever since Jonah's time sailors have
neld a superstition against having
preachers on board, thinking hat
passengers bring bad luck 10 the
ship. However, that may be. the
harbor Of Jaffa is one of the worst
in the world. 1t is almost ALWAYS
rough, and often it is Impossible to
land. Cpon our arrival the sea was
quiet, but, nevertheless, the swell was
such that the boats which took us
ashore bobbed up and down and the
waves soaked our baggage before
reaching port.
AS to Jonah himself and his narrow
escape. one OF our preachers on board
mas quoted "a new version for the req
OF his leaving the whale:
1 threw up JONAH said the whale.
who'd lately come to town;
1 threw up Jonah,
For could not keep a good man
down"
- toiI1inS IN L looked about for q
Nhele. There was none in sight al
,nough l am told they are still 70 he
seen IN the Mediterranean. Tn their
race, however, We're MANY iellyfsb
Il an opalescent blue. These ash
we're as Dig as a foot ball. and of the
q mushroom There were
lunoreds of them floating about ana
hey Dumped again and again against
ne huil as we lay there at anchor
oOiOrlOn'S Timber Rats.
In addition to the story Of Jonah
mere are many other well authenti-
'ated facts about Jaffa which make i
Interesting. 1t has always been tha
MET port for the Holy Land. It was
I one time owned by the P~hoeniciaDs
later when Solomon built tho 49,
de 1t was here that the timher ,,.aa
n It's construction was landed ~
most or this was cedar which CO.,
rom the forests Of Lebanon soSaie I
hundred miles up the coast. Ths aa {
we're dragged down the countains loss
nroWn into the sea at Tyre an, c,saiIu &
were then made into raft. 'uoh; {
to Jaffa, whence thew ana G
led up to Jerusalem BY cane car c
men. and q
Jaffa was an important nor,
avs of the crusaders, ana 49, IN the d