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Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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white water-fowl which now stands stuffed in the hotel atTiberias. Before we reached the rivers mouth, we saw afile of some fifteen Bedawy horsemen take a fordthat one could hardly have believed possible. Theriver itself at its outlet was not over fifty yardswide, but too deep to cross. So these horsemenentered the lake one hundred yards west of theriver, and slowly circled out into the lake, followinga sand-bar known to them, until the waters roseover the backs of the smaller horses. Still theykept their seats and still the horses kept their feet,completing the surprisingly wide semicircle, with aradius of not less than two hundred yards, and inthe course of ten minutes were on land again, eastof the Jordan. One hears of such fords, but fewpeople know them, and fewer still are willing totry them. Within the mouth of the Jordan, we found sev-eral fishing-boats at rest on the shingle. Theirowners were all on the eastern bank, sorting andcleaninor the catch of the nio-ht. This identical
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fe ~ fo 3 ^ o Galilee 131 spot has been used for the same purpose from timeimmemorial. Curiously enough the present ownerof the government privilege to catch hsh in thelake is a Jew. and the man engaged in cleaningthe fish is also a Jew, but all the fishermen andowners of the boats are Moslems. By a rare coin-cidence, we found eight or ten of the hungry fisher-men gathered round a fire, on which thev wereroasting fish, a repetition of the scene described inJohn xxi.. 9. This photograph is unique amongthe many we were able to obtain. The Jewishoverseer stands on the left with his hand on hismouth, the fishermen kindly moved back while wephotographed, so that we could see the eight orten fish which lie roasting on the oval iron plate,under which is the fire of coals. The low-lying plain east of the Jordan at thispoint is called the Batiha and is one of the richestplains in Syria. At one point it is four miles broad.It is now owned by Muhammad Said Pasha ofDamascus, th

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