Identifier: winterpilgrimage00hagg (find matches)
Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the heating of ovens.Nor did commentaries help me much. Thus the Inter-national Teachers Edition of the Bible, the best andmost useful that I know, says that grass of the field asspoken of here indicates all herbs of the field. InCyprus and the Holy Land, however, I observed donkeysand women laden with great bundles of a grey pricklygrowth, the stalks of wild thyme, I believe, though ofthis I am not certain, and inquired its purpose. ThenI learned that this growth is invariably used by thebakers to heat their ovens. It has the property ofburning with a clear, hot flame, but without smoke, and 220 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE therefore leaves the interior of the oven, after the asheshave been drawn, clean and fit to receive the bread.Can any one doubt that this was the grass of thefield that is cast into the oven to which theSaviour alluded, or that He drew His illustrationfrom the still common sight of the passing womenbearing it in bundles on their heads to be sold in thecities of the Lake ?
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hJ 13 <O o < WKH OH CHAPTER XVI THE SEA OF GALILEE At night the Sea of Galilee is very beautiful. Thecrescent moon sinking to the horizon, the myriad starsreflected from the breast of the water, the soft distantline of the opposing hills — where of old dwelt theGergezenes—the hush of the heavy air, the broodingcalm broken only by barking pariah dogs; all thesecompose a picture and leave impressions that the mindcannot easily forget. Tiberias is a hot town, so hot that, as the Germanhotel-keeper told me, it is impossible for many monthsof the year to sleep except upon the roof. Even nowin the spring the thermometer must have stood atnearly eighty degrees in the shade, and the sun wasso powerful that I was glad to wear a bath-towel asa puggaree. Also on the first night that we passedthere we were favoured with another evidence of thegenial nature of the climate. My bed was protectedwith gauze curtains, which I thought were drawn withcare, but about two in the morning I awoke t

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