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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
nai, through " the great and terrible wilderness that
leadeth to Kadesh Barnea ;" and among the stony
mountains through which I was now journeying
must have been the Kadesh, in the wilderness of
Parang from which Moses sent the ten chosen men
to spy out the land of Canaan, who went " unto the
brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and bare it be-
tween two upon a staff; and though they brought
of the pomegranates and figs, and said that surely
the land flowed with milk and honey, and these
were the fruits thereof; yet brought up such an evil
report of the land, that it ate up the inhabitants
thereof; and of the sons of Anak, the giants that
dwelt therein, that the hearts of the Israelites sank
within them ; they murmured against Moses ; and
for their murmurings they were sent back into the
wilderness; and their carcasses, from twenty years
old and upward, were doomed to fall in the wilder-
ness, and the children of the murmurers to wander
forty years before they should enter the Land of
Promise."* I followed in the track of the spies ;
and, though I saw not the Vale of Eshcol with its
grapes and pomegranates, neither did I see the sons
of Anak, the giants which dwelt in the land. In-
deed, the men of . Anak could not have made me
turn back from the Land of Promise. I was so
heartily tired of the desert and my Bedouin com-
panions, that I would have thrown myself into the
* Numbers xiii., 23.
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
nai, through " the great and terrible wilderness that
leadeth to Kadesh Barnea ;" and among the stony
mountains through which I was now journeying
must have been the Kadesh, in the wilderness of
Parang from which Moses sent the ten chosen men
to spy out the land of Canaan, who went " unto the
brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and bare it be-
tween two upon a staff; and though they brought
of the pomegranates and figs, and said that surely
the land flowed with milk and honey, and these
were the fruits thereof; yet brought up such an evil
report of the land, that it ate up the inhabitants
thereof; and of the sons of Anak, the giants that
dwelt therein, that the hearts of the Israelites sank
within them ; they murmured against Moses ; and
for their murmurings they were sent back into the
wilderness; and their carcasses, from twenty years
old and upward, were doomed to fall in the wilder-
ness, and the children of the murmurers to wander
forty years before they should enter the Land of
Promise."* I followed in the track of the spies ;
and, though I saw not the Vale of Eshcol with its
grapes and pomegranates, neither did I see the sons
of Anak, the giants which dwelt in the land. In-
deed, the men of . Anak could not have made me
turn back from the Land of Promise. I was so
heartily tired of the desert and my Bedouin com-
panions, that I would have thrown myself into the
* Numbers xiii., 23.