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Title: The Jordan valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William, 1855- Hoskins, Franklin Evans, joint author
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Publisher: New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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th our rifles wecould have fired half a dozen shots before they dis-appeared. None but a real hunter will ever knowthe emotions of our hearts, and the impressionmade of what might have been ! Some uncompli-mentary remarks were flung out concerning thewhole art of photography, as our first chance toshoot an ibex, and perhaps our last, slipped awayforever. On our way down we failed to enjoy the beautiesof the fadinQf sunlight in the eora-e, because thoseseven ibex kept running across the seat of memoryin our brains. The blue rock pigeons seemed tomock us, and the partridges clucked more defiantlythan ever. We paused long enough to discoverand photograph an ancient Roman hand-mill, cutfrom a block of basalt. It lacks the cone of ba-salt upon which it fitted and revolved, but showsplainly the sockets into which its handles fitted. We went to rest early that evening, but all nightlong those seven ibex kept galloping over the rocks,and we, in our dreams, were hunting in vain for therifles !
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CHAPTER X MOUNT HOR THE region of Petra, and more especially ofMount Hor, is paved with the good in-tentions of travellers unfulfilled. Burck-hardt (1811) struggled hard to ascend Mount Hor,but was obliged to halt on the little plain half-wayup, without reaching the top. Neither Laborde(1827), nor Robinson (1838), was allowed to makethe attempt. Many other parties since their dayhave seen the white tomb on its summit from afar,and sadly against their will turned away from itforever. But since the roads have been betterknown, and travellers have been able to dispensewith native guides, the ascent has been made bya number who have left some records of theirexperiences. The difficulties are not physical, but arise fromthe jealousy, the cupidity, and the superstitions ofthe people, who claim the shrine and guard its ap-proaches. The Bedawin who roam over the landof Edom have been described by travellers as theworst of their race. Pococke speaks of the Arabsabout Akabah and the Arabah as b

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