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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
history is unknown, its construction was ascribed
to the early Christians. It was a beautiful after-
noon ; gazelles were playing in the valleys, and
partridges running wild up the sides of the moun-
tains, and we pitched our tent partly over a carpet
of grass, with the door open to the lofty tomb of
the great high-priest of Israel.
In the evening the sheil, came to my tent for
money, having been very pertinacious on that
tender subject all day with Paul, asking him
how much he thought I had with me, and how
much I intended to give him. He began by asking
me for pay for the camels, at the price agreed
upon in Cairo. If he had asked me before start-
ing from Akaba, I should probably have paid him ;
but after what I had seen, and what had passed
between him and Paul, J did not like his asking for
it now. He told me, too, that we were now at the
door of Petra, and that it would be necessary to
pay a bucksheesh or tribute on entering, but he
could not tell how much would be required, as
that would depend altogether on circumstances.
There was always a guard stationed at the en-
trance of the defile leading to Petra, and the
amount to be paid would depend upon the number
we might happen to find when we entered. These
were never less than thirty or forty; and if there
should not be more, the tribute exacted would not
be more than thirty or forty dollars, but there
might be two or three hundred ; and, at all events,
I had better give him my purse, and he would re-
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
history is unknown, its construction was ascribed
to the early Christians. It was a beautiful after-
noon ; gazelles were playing in the valleys, and
partridges running wild up the sides of the moun-
tains, and we pitched our tent partly over a carpet
of grass, with the door open to the lofty tomb of
the great high-priest of Israel.
In the evening the sheil, came to my tent for
money, having been very pertinacious on that
tender subject all day with Paul, asking him
how much he thought I had with me, and how
much I intended to give him. He began by asking
me for pay for the camels, at the price agreed
upon in Cairo. If he had asked me before start-
ing from Akaba, I should probably have paid him ;
but after what I had seen, and what had passed
between him and Paul, J did not like his asking for
it now. He told me, too, that we were now at the
door of Petra, and that it would be necessary to
pay a bucksheesh or tribute on entering, but he
could not tell how much would be required, as
that would depend altogether on circumstances.
There was always a guard stationed at the en-
trance of the defile leading to Petra, and the
amount to be paid would depend upon the number
we might happen to find when we entered. These
were never less than thirty or forty; and if there
should not be more, the tribute exacted would not
be more than thirty or forty dollars, but there
might be two or three hundred ; and, at all events,
I had better give him my purse, and he would re-