This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...their protection. Among these was a married couple. The wife trudged vigorously on foot in order to keep up with the caravan, whilst the husband, seated upon the broad saddle of an ass, smoked his pipe with all the composure in the world, attended by his servant, although his wife was bearing a bundle containing their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...their protection. Among these was a married couple. The wife trudged vigorously on foot in order to keep up with the caravan, whilst the husband, seated upon the broad saddle of an ass, smoked his pipe with all the composure in the world, attended by his servant, although his wife was bearing a bundle containing their little effects. This is an Eastern custom too, and if the wife's feet grow tired, the tongue does not complain. It was only at one tolerably deep river, the water of which reached to the man's girdle, that the attentive husband dismounted and waded through, suffering his wife to squat upon the ass; with very little advantage after all, for she was wetted through in the passage. At the distance of a few leagues from Tentura, there are heaps of rubbish by the sea-side, in which you may distinguish, or imagine, walls, towers, and aqueducts. These are the ruins of Casarea, the magnificent city of Herod the Great, which was built in true Roman taste. Scorpions and jackals are said to live there now; and wells and cisterns, in a state of decay, render it dangerous to range about the ruins. We had, besides, no time to examine them. But it impresses you powerfully to behold as ruins, --not single temples, palaces, or amphitheatres, but one entire city, with its walls and gates, which not longer ago than the time of the Crusades, was a secure stronghold, and the residence of an archbishop. It is now exterminated midst its fellows, and sand and sea have but to continue their work of destruction for a little longer. In the Acts of the Apostles, the whole Syrian coast, but especially Casarea, occupies an important place. It was here that Saint Paul was detained prisoner for two years under the Roman governor Felix; and defended himself so energetically bef..
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