Identifier: withbeduinsnarra00hill (find matches)
Title: With the Beduins, a narrative of journeys and adventures in unfrequented parts of Syria
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Gray
Subjects: Bedouins
Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hat it was hard to get anysleep. The sheik had heard of our adventures,1 andthe whole matter had to be recounted all over again,and commented upon from every point of view. Likeall the others he abused the Mejelli, for whom noneseem to have a good word. They are feared asstrong and grasping, and despised as upstarts ; mennot of the true old aristocratic Beduin blood, but merepeasants from Hebron. Near this place are several tells, or small solitaryhills rising in the plain, and there are similar hills inthe plain south of the Dead Sea. They look as ifthey might contain ruins, but I could not see anysign ot buildings on the two which I ascended. 1 Of these very exaggerated reports were circulated. At Jeru-salem the story went that George and I had been chained togetherin a cave, and that my wife had married Saleh the Sheik of Kerak !And while we were still in Palestine we received a letter fromhome, telling us that some English newspaper had stated our ransomat thirty thousand pounds !
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CHAPTER XV. WE FORD THE JORDAN. A NIGHT MARCH. Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away. Song of Solomon. LSee how the morning opes his golden gate. Henry VI. THE next morning we rose at four, and getting the.camp in motion by daybreak, saw, as we beganour march, the first light of the rising sun uponthe tops of the Judaean and Samaritan hills which itturned to a deep red colour. Two jackals stole awayas we pushed through the barley field to the west of us,and made our way in the direction of the fords of theJordan which lie between Es Salt on the east, and Nab-lous (Shechem) on the west. As we descended therange of low hills which border the river during thewhole of its passage from the Sea of. Galilee to theDead Sea, we passed the encampment of the sheik ofthe ford, whose business it was to conduct us safelyacross. He rode up accompanied by four of his men.We pushed through the wide margin of trees and thickundergrowth which lines the river, and soon cameupon the brink. The wi

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