Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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way, but, unfor-tunateh^, the clouds Avere coming straight towards us, and the road,rough and doAvn-hill, prevented our hurrying. A deep, Avide glenopened as Ave rode on, its Avhole space pleasantly green, and enlivenedAvith large flocks of goats, kids, sheep, and lambs, in one case with alittle bare-headed boy, stick in hand, as shepherd. A number ofDamascus mules, on their Avay home Avithout loads, Avere feeding onthe slopes. The ownership of the flocks was presently shoAvn by thesight of tAvo groups of black tents of Bedouins, for these ill-con-ditioned rufl&ans OAvn nearly all the cattle, sheep, or goats one sees,leaving the peasant only what he can keep them from stealing, andAvhat crops he can guard. While still among the hills the rain brokeover ns, and there Avas no shelter; but at last, before Ave reachedTiberias, there Avas the clear shining after it, and the mown, or atleast thirsty grass, Avashed and brightened, gleamed in the sun. 1 Mark iv. 37. O& a cr ■a IT) a
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^L^J TIBERIAS. 541 CHAPTER XLTII. TIBERIAS. Our tents had been pitclied at the south end of the town, so thatwe had to ride past the castle at its north edge, alongside the townwall, and then through the wretched apologies for streets. That nighta rain-storm had its way from dark till morning, and a fine time itgave us. The tent-cover flapped like a huge bird caught in the toils,or, to vary the figure, flew up and down, out and in, as if it had beenpossessed, the huge red, yellow, white, and blue flowers of bunting withwhich it was adorned on the inside, took life, and leaped and toreround all the tent, and up and down the roof, like a weird dance. Ithought of the witches going through their wild careerings on the lastnight of April on brooms and goats, holding revel with their masterthe devil at the old heathen altars of north Germany, which Walpur-gis,i the English monk, had by his preaching left cold and dark evenon Mny Day, when the sacred fires used to glow on them more thanin al

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