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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
full run, and in a towering passion. The soldier
had given him the usual Mussulman abuse, show-
ering upon him the accustomed " dog" and " Chris-
tian ;" and, moreover, had driven him to the verge
of madness by calling him a " Jew," and tnreaten-
ing to whip both him and his master. Paul ran
awav from what I am inclined to believe would
have been his share, as the Arabs had taken part
against him ; and, burning with the indignity of
being called a Jew, begged me to seek redress of
the governor. I was roused myself, not so much
by the particular insult to Paul, as by the general
intention of the thing, and the disconsolate figure
of my poor muleteer ; and leaving my unfinished
meal, with my firman in my hand, and Paul and
the muleteer at my heels, I started for the palace
of the governor.
Old things and new are strangely blended in Je-
rusalem ; and the residence of the Turkish gov-
ernor is in the large building which to this day
bears the name of Pontius Pilate. Paul told me
its history as we were ascending the steps; and it
passed through my mind as a strange thing, that
almost the first moment after entering the city, I
was making a complaint, perhaps in the same hall
where the Jews had complained of Christ before
Pontius Pilate, having with me a follower of that
Christ, whom the Jews reviled and buffeted, burn-
ing under the indignity of being called a Jew.
The governor, as is the custom of governors in
the East, and probably as Pontius Pilate did in the
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
full run, and in a towering passion. The soldier
had given him the usual Mussulman abuse, show-
ering upon him the accustomed " dog" and " Chris-
tian ;" and, moreover, had driven him to the verge
of madness by calling him a " Jew," and tnreaten-
ing to whip both him and his master. Paul ran
awav from what I am inclined to believe would
have been his share, as the Arabs had taken part
against him ; and, burning with the indignity of
being called a Jew, begged me to seek redress of
the governor. I was roused myself, not so much
by the particular insult to Paul, as by the general
intention of the thing, and the disconsolate figure
of my poor muleteer ; and leaving my unfinished
meal, with my firman in my hand, and Paul and
the muleteer at my heels, I started for the palace
of the governor.
Old things and new are strangely blended in Je-
rusalem ; and the residence of the Turkish gov-
ernor is in the large building which to this day
bears the name of Pontius Pilate. Paul told me
its history as we were ascending the steps; and it
passed through my mind as a strange thing, that
almost the first moment after entering the city, I
was making a complaint, perhaps in the same hall
where the Jews had complained of Christ before
Pontius Pilate, having with me a follower of that
Christ, whom the Jews reviled and buffeted, burn-
ing under the indignity of being called a Jew.
The governor, as is the custom of governors in
the East, and probably as Pontius Pilate did in the