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Title: Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. We are startled from the deep hush which prevails,and from the solemn thoughts which it inspires, bya hail in Arabic from another company of the wild-est Bedouins. Their faces are sinister in the gloam-ing. Our guide responds, and again there are em-braces and kisses. These, too, says the guide, are no betterthan the Jericho thieves you read of. They belongto Jericho, and are on their way home, and theywill steal anything, unless they have given theirpledge. We look at their long guns, and knives in theirbelts, and the loneliness of our situation, and feelrelieved at the entente cordiale between them andour guard. As we see them depart down amidstthe rocky declivity, the moon comes out over thedistant Jordan, and just then the sun departs withits last lingering light. The very caves, and thetombs in the solid rock, and the grandeur of theMount of Olives make the scene weird; and thememories of the past, with its city of Zion, once thejoy of the whole earth, and so gorgeous in gates,
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TOMIl OF AIISAI.OM. VALLEY Ol JHHOSOFHAT. THE HOLY PLACES OF CHRISTLANITY. 325 palaces, and temples, and over whose future deso-lation and woe Christ here wept because of its un-belief and ignorance, leave an impression none theless emphatic, tender, and melancholy, because fromthis point he gave his last directions to his disciples,before the cloud received him from their sight! In descending into the valley again, we pass Ab-saloms tomb and others, including that of St. James.They are cut in the rocks, and look like temples,with rounded columns of alabaster, in the moon-light. Even from the shadowy valley of Ezekielsvision the walls of the city are silvered into newbeauty. We look up and realize how high theyare, and why the besiegers preferred their attackupon other points than this. Yet there, now hidby the rubbish of ages, once arose the steps whichled by the Golden gate to the temple and city.Passing under the shadow of Gethsemane, we can-not enter by this gate. It is the one by

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