File:The Jordan Valley and Petra (1905) (14780513622).jpg

Identifier: jordanvalleypetr02libb (find matches)
Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
Subjects:
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s of his activity as Pashaof Tafileh, and desire to improve the country,appeared in the repairing of the roads all round thetown. A new^ mosque had been built and occupied,a telegraph office and the new government build-ing were fast approaching completion. He aidedRasheed Pasha in building the great school build-ing at Kerak, and in stretching the telegraph wiresto Mecca and Medina. We were sorry to missseeing him, but the judge and the telegraphoperator did all they could to make our staypleasant. Next day we left Tafileh (thirty-six hundred andfifty feet) and crossing a ridge or two were soon mov-ing along among well-watered fields at an elevationof forty-four hundred feet. At Ain el Beidah (onehour and forty minutes) a stream of clear waterfiow^s across the main road. For more than anhour we had Buseirah, the little Bozrah, in sight, aswe wound round the deep ravines which cut it offon three sides from the main table-land. It hasa strong natural position in this lawless region. It
Text Appearing After Image:
Kerak to Shobek 23 was an important town of Edom and is mentionedin Scripture under the name of Bozrah of Edom.There are many signs of extensive buildings allround the region, and an abundance of water. Just east of Buseirah is a shrine called XebyHaudefeh, a rude stone building, around whichare piled timbers and farming utensils, under theprotection of the owner of the shrine. It is oneof those strange places where the Moslems offerbloody offerings. The custom here is to carry thesheep to the roof, cut its throat above the doorway,and allow the blood to run down the walls. Theblackened streaks and cakes of dried blood arevisible from a distance. At the brook beyond the Xeby our barometersregistered forty-one hundred and fifty feet, and dur-ing the course of the next hour we climbed an easy,grassy slope, until we reached a beautiful fountaincalled Ain el Gelaidat, at five thousand two hundredand fifty feet above the sea. Here we pitched ourtents and allowed all the animals to graze un

Note About Images