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198 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
made by her abusing the prophet; which being told to the
Pasha of Acri, an order came for the Greek to be delivered
to the Turkish soldiers; who, after having subjected her to
every indignity, put her to death.
I have not much reason to respect any of the native
inhabitants of Nazareth, whose manners denoted a barbarity
and rudeness greater than I had expected. I attempted to make
sketches; but was so beset by the Greeks and Mahometans,
that I was fain to make a precipitate retreat to the convent,
where I was recommended to abstain from drawing again.
The opprobrious epithets, Giaour and Franky Cocu, were
applied to me in every direction; and I had more than once
to shelter myself from a shower of stones. I contented my-
self with seeing the holy places, which are as doubtfully
marked out here as at Jerusalem, though with seeming con-
fidence. I could not help being shocked, when taken by
one of the Latin monks to the site of the shop kept by
Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, where our Saviour
is supposed to have been employed in selling the articles
made by that person.
A chapel stands on this place; as also another on the site
of that where stood the Synagogue, in which Jesus explained
the prophecy of Isaiah relating to himself*.
* St. Luke, chap. iv. ver. 17, 18, and following.
made by her abusing the prophet; which being told to the
Pasha of Acri, an order came for the Greek to be delivered
to the Turkish soldiers; who, after having subjected her to
every indignity, put her to death.
I have not much reason to respect any of the native
inhabitants of Nazareth, whose manners denoted a barbarity
and rudeness greater than I had expected. I attempted to make
sketches; but was so beset by the Greeks and Mahometans,
that I was fain to make a precipitate retreat to the convent,
where I was recommended to abstain from drawing again.
The opprobrious epithets, Giaour and Franky Cocu, were
applied to me in every direction; and I had more than once
to shelter myself from a shower of stones. I contented my-
self with seeing the holy places, which are as doubtfully
marked out here as at Jerusalem, though with seeming con-
fidence. I could not help being shocked, when taken by
one of the Latin monks to the site of the shop kept by
Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, where our Saviour
is supposed to have been employed in selling the articles
made by that person.
A chapel stands on this place; as also another on the site
of that where stood the Synagogue, in which Jesus explained
the prophecy of Isaiah relating to himself*.
* St. Luke, chap. iv. ver. 17, 18, and following.