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Title: Out-of-Doors in the Holyland
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Regis Canevin
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Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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at youneed a shine, and valets de flace press their ser-vices upon you, and ingratiating young merchantstry to allure you into their establishments to pur-chase photographs or embroidered scarves or olive-wood souvenirs of the Holy Land. Come over to Cooks office, where we get our let-ters, and stand for a while on the little terrace withthe iron railing, looking at the motley crowd whichfills the place in front of the citadel. Groups of blue-robed peasant women sit on the curbstone, sellingfirewood and grass and vegetables. Their faces arebare and brown, wrinkled with the sun and the wind.Turkish soldiers in dark-green uniform, Greek priestsin black robes and stove-pipe hats, Bedouins in flow-ing cloaks of brown and white, pale-faced Jews withvelvet gabardines and curly ear-locks, Moslemwomen in many-coloured silken garments and half-transparent veils, British tourists with cork helmetsand white umbrellas, camels, donkeys, goats, andsheep, jostle together in picturesque confusion. 60
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A Street in Jenisalem. THE GATES OF ZION There is a water-carrier with his shiny, dripping,bulbous goat-skin on his shoulders. There is anArab of the wilderness with a young gazelle in hisarms. Now let us go down the greasy, gliddery steps ofDavid Street, between the diminutive dusky shopswith open fronts where all kinds of queer things toeat and to wear are sold, and all sorts of craftsmenare at work making shoes, and tin pans, and copperpots, and wooden seats, and little tables, and clothesof strange pattern. A turn to the left brings us intoChristian Street and the New Bazaar of the Greeks,with its modern stores. A turn to the right and a long descent under darkarchways and through dirty, shadowy alleys bringsus to the Place of Lamentations, beside the ancientfoundation wall of the Temple, where the Jews comein the afternoon of Fridays and festival-days to leantheir heads against the huge stones and murmur forththeir wailings over the downfall of Jerusalem. Forthe majesty that is d

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