This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...bands of Arabs to gather in their season the fruit of others' toil, or anything else they may light on. Near the head of the latter spring, of which mention has been made, and on the brow of the mountain, there still exist relics which denotp the site where a town must have formerly stood, the name of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...bands of Arabs to gather in their season the fruit of others' toil, or anything else they may light on. Near the head of the latter spring, of which mention has been made, and on the brow of the mountain, there still exist relics which denotp the site where a town must have formerly stood, the name of which I was unable to ascertain from the villagers, who have converted these ruins by a little ingenuity into habitations for themselves, THE TAAMARI. 187 not indeed of the most commodious kind, for they resemble more. the burrows formed by beasts of the field, than the abodes of human beings. The inhabitants, who are Moslems, amount to no more than from ten to fifteen in number, and these are the remnant of some annihilated tribe, according to their own version. They unite their endeavors for mutualaid and protection with Mr. Meshullom in the defence of the place, and the cultivation of the soil. This neighbourhood is frequented also by a race of people in particular, who bear the name of It'Taamari, and, although now a migratory and pastoral people, are represented as once having been of agricultural habits; and whether from predilection, or' proximity to the Bedouin tribes, to have abandoned their villages and adopted the habits and mode of living they witnessed among these neighbours. Conjecture is all we can employ while seeking to trace affinity between this tribe the Taamari and the Amorites of Scripture, the children of Lot, by his own daughter, whose posterity, in the lapse of time became a powerful nation. Deut. iii. 9. The I t'Am0r, Amori, or "Amorites," or children of Amon, expelled by the Beni Israel or I t'Israel, as in the language of the Canaanites, it is likely they were called, ...
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