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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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tripped him of some rags that covered his woundedankles. Leigh and Banks, and Irby and Mangles(1818), were told that the Arabs of Wady Musawere a most savage and treacherous race, murder-ing pilgrims from Barbary, and acting toward allcomers as the Edomites did toward the Israelites,when they refused them passage through this coun-try on the way to the Promised Land. It is amystery why this ancient, world-old churlishnessshould appear in the modern dwellers, but so it is.They seem to have drawn it from the soil or tohave absorbed it from the fountains. But what-ever its explanation, here it is, three thousand yearsand more since Moses was rebuffed. Aarons tomb on Hor is now a Moslem shrine.Like Moses tomb below Nebo it has been covetedand fought for by Christians, and more especiallyby Jews, whose reverence for both these Israeliteheroes is well known to the Moslems. It will bewoe to the poor Jew, for many years to come, whois found within twenty-five miles of that sacredspot on Hor !
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Mount Hor 235 Another element entering into the situation isthe deeply rooted superstition connected with thetomb, according to which the people firmly be-lieve that evil will surely befall, before the year isout, the wretched man who commits the sacrilegeof aiding or guiding any stranger to the sacredspot at the top of the mount. It is true that theircupidity now and then overcomes their fears, butthe deep-rooted superstition and the dread of evilraise the price demanded. As late as 1883 theparty made up of Kitchener, Armstrong, and Hull,paid ^34 ($170.00) for the privilege of one day tovisit Mount Hor, and afterwards passing throughPetra. Ordinarily the amount of bakhshish de-pends upon the number of men who get wind ofthe strangers coming, and who reach the spot intime to claim a share. It is then many men,many money. When their superstitions and cu-pidity have not availed, they have often thwartedparties by threatening to plunder their camp or car-avans while the owners were climb

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