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Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The Valley of Death, ithas been appropriately named. It is a savage, barrengorge between two mountains. The desolation and thedeathlike quiet of the place depress the feelings. Not aspear of grass, not a shrub or tree, not a drop of water, nota living thing is to be seen in this solitary valley, the en-trance to the tombs. The tropical sun beats down on our heads with terriblepower, and we are glad for once to seek the shelter of anoverhanging rock, which casts a grateful shade. We learnto appreciate, more fully than ever before, the meaning ofthe words, - the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.We find, too, the advantage of having the little water girl,Fatima, with us. The porous earthen bottle keeps the wa-ter quite cool. A handkerchief, saturated with water andplaced on the head, gives much relief as we ride on in theglare of the noonday sun. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS 225 Finally we come to the place of the tombs, the veryvalley of death. The mountain side is literally honey-
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Entrance to the Empty Tomb of Seti I, Fatherof the Oppressor. combed with the rocky mansions of the dead. Here thePharaohs of ancient Egypt were laid away in glory, everyone in his own house. Isa. 14: 18. 226 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. Cased in cedar and shut in a sacred gloom;Swathed in linen and precious unguents of old;Painted with cinnabar, and rich with gold;Silent they rest, in solemn salvatory;Sealed from the moth and the owl and the flitter-mouse;Each with his name on his brow, Here, too, queens and princes, priests and nobles, offi-cers and men of wealth were laid away to rest, and theirtombs were equal in magnificence and splendor to those ofthe Pharaohs. We are in the midst of the tombs of thegreat men and women who lived more than three thousandyears ago. Great as they were, their bodies have been re-moved, and many of them are now on exhibition in Cairo.Others are to be seen in the museums of Europe and theUnited States. What a commentary on human greatness! Like the tomb

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