Late afternoon brought me to the edge of Esdraelon. A veritable garden spot, covered with graceful4 palms and waving pomegranates and perfumed with the fragrance5 of orange and lemon groves6, covered the lower slope of the peak that had been my phare. Back of the garden stood the fanatical town of Gineen. The appearance of a defenseless unbeliever in their midst aroused its inhabitants to scowls7 and curses, and a few stones from a group of youngsters at a corner of the bazaar9 rattled10 in the streets behind me. My letter was addressed in native script. The squatting12 shopkeeper to whom I displayed it attempted to scowl8 me out of countenance13, then, recalling his duty of hospitality towards whoever should enter his dwelling14, called a passing urchin15 and, mumbling16 a few words to him, bade me follow. The urchin mounted the sloping market-place, made several unexpected turnings, and, pointing out a large house surrounded by a forbidding stone wall, scampered17 away like one accustomed to take no chances of future damnation by lingering at the entrance to a Christian18 hotbed.
I clanged the heavy knocker until the sound echoed up and down the adjoining streets, and, receiving no response, sat down on the curb19. A 168well-dressed native wandered by and I displayed the letter. He glared at it, muttered “etnashar s??” (twelve o’clock, i. e., nightfall by Arabic reckoning) and continued his way. From time to time visitors paused at neighboring gates or house doors and, standing20 in the center of the street, lifted up their voices in mournful wails21 that endured long enough to have given the wailer’s pedigree from the time of Noah; and were finally admitted. Beggars made the rounds, wailing22 longer and more mournfully than the others, seldom ceasing until a few bread-sheets or coppers23 were tossed out to them. Bands of females, whose veils may have covered great beauty or the hideous24 visages of hags, drew up in a circle round me now and then to discuss my personal attractions, and to fill me with the creepy feeling one might experience at a visit of the White Caps or the Klu-Klux Klan.
Full two hours I had squatted25 against the wall when an old man, in European garb26, slowly ascended27 the street, mumbling to himself as he ran through his fingers a string of yellow beads28. He paused at the gate and pulled out a key. I sprang to my feet and handed him the letter. He read it with something of a scowl and, motioning to me to wait, went inside. A long delay followed. At last the gate groaned29 and gave exit to the ugliest creature in the Arab world. He was a youth of about twenty, as long as a day without bread, and too thin to deflect30 a ray of light. His shoulders were bowed until his head stuck out at right angles to his body; his long, yellow teeth protruded31 from his lips; in his one eye was the gleam of the rascal32; and his very attitude stamped him as one who hated faranchees with a deadly hatred33. Around his lank34 form hung a half-dozen long, flowing garments as from a hat-rack, and on his head was the coiffure of the Bedouin.
I caught enough of his snarling35 harangue36 to know that he was a family domestic ordered to conduct me to the servants’ quarters. On the opposite side of the long street he unlocked a battered38 door, and admitted me to a hovel furnished with a moth-eaten divan39 and a pan of dead coals. A dapper young native entered soon after and addressed me in fluent French.
“My family is in a sad situation,” he explained; “we are friends of the Kawar and so always the friends of his friends. But we are the only Christians40 in Gineen and so we can only give you servant quarters.” His train of reasoning was not particularly clear. “But you must not stay in Gineen to-night. If you wait until to-morrow, you must go on alone and in the mountains are Bedouins who every day catch travelers, and fill their eyes and mouths and noses with 169sand, and drag them around by a rope, and cut them up in small pieces, and scatter42 them all around! You must go to-night, with the mail-train. Then you will be safe.”
“I’ve tramped all day,” I protested; “I’ll find lodgings43 in the town if I am inconveniencing your family.”
“Mon Dieu!” shrieked44 the young man; “there you would be cut to pieces in an hour! Gineen hates Christians. If you stop here, they will beat my family—”
His distress46, real or feigned47, was so acute that I assented48 at last to his plan. He ordered the misshapen servant to bring me supper, and departed.
The living caricature followed his master and returned with a bowl of lentils and several “side dishes.” With him appeared two companions, almost as unprepossessing of mien49 as himself; and he had no sooner placed the food on the floor than all three squatted around it and, clawing with both hands, made way with the meal so rapidly that I had barely time to snatch a few mouthfuls. When the last scrap50 had disappeared, the newcomers fell to licking out the bowls. The elongated51 servant set up the wailing monotony that is the Arabic notion of a song, and, swaying back and forth52 and thrusting out his misplaced fangs53 in a fixed54 leer, he continued for an unbroken two hours a performance which the roars of mirth from his mates proved was no compliment to faranchees.
Towards nine in the evening he turned his fellow-rascals55 into the street, and motioning to me to take up my knapsack, dived out into the night. By good fortune I managed to keep at his heels without splitting my head on the huts among which he dodged57 and doubled in an effort to shake me off before we arrived at the mail-train khan. The keeper was a bitter enemy of unbelievers and admitted me only under protest, and with a steady flow of vile58 oaths that was unchecked as long as I remained in the building. My guide deposited his cadaverous frame on a heap of chaff59 and took up his song of derision and his leering where he had left off.
At the appearance of the mail train the song ceased, and the singer, having briefly60 stated the desire of his master, disappeared. The snarls61 of the servant and the khan-keeper had been friendly greetings compared with those of the three drivers of the mail train. To all appearances they were more to be feared than capture by sand-stuffing Bedouins; but my sponsor was a man of higher caste than mere62 muleteers and would surely in some degree hold them responsible for my 170safe arrival—so it seemed—and I determined64 to stick to the plan. Of the four mules65 that made up the train, one was saddled with the mail-sacks and, at a signal from the leader, the driver sprang astride the others. The khan door opened, letting in a cutting draught66 of January air, and I followed the party outside, fully2 expecting to be offered a mount. The train, however, kept steadily67 on. The hindmost Arab signed to me to grasp the crupper of his mule63; then he cut the animal across the flanks perilously68 near my fingers. Only then did the truth burst upon me. Instead of letting me ride, as certainly the Christian had expected them to do, the rascals had taken this golden opportunity to reverse the usual order of things Oriental. The true believers would serenely69 bestride their animals and the faranchee might trot70 behind like a Damascus donkey-boy. I fancied I heard several chuckles71 of delight, half-smothered in blatant72 curses.
The night was as black as a Port Sa?d coaling nigger. In the first few rods I lost my footing more than once and barked my shins on a dozen boulders74. The practical joke of the Arabs, however, was not ended. Once far enough from the khan to make a return difficult, the leader shouted an order, the three struck viciously at their animals, and with a rattle11 of small stones against the boulders away went the party at full gallop75. I lost my grip on the crupper, broke into a run in an attempt to keep the pace, slipped and slid on the stones, struck a slope that I had not made out in the darkness, and stumbling halfway76 up it on my hands and knees, sprawled77 at full length over a boulder73.
I sat up and listened until the tinkle78 of the pack-mule’s bell died away on the night air; then rose to grope my way back to the khan. It was closed and locked. By some rare fortune I found my way to the street in which the Christian lived and pushed open the door of the hovel. The room was unoccupied, though the lighted wick of a tallow lamp showed that the servant had returned. I spread out three of the four blankets folded away on the divan and lay down. A moment later the walking mizzenmast entered, leaped sidewise as though he saw the ghost of a forgotten victim, and spreading the remaining blanket in the most distant corner, curled up with all his multifarious garb upon him. I rose to blow out the light, but the Arab set up a howl of abject79 terror that might have been heard on the northern wall of Esdraelon, and I desisted.
The route between Gineen and Nablous was in strange contrast to that of the day before, much like a sudden transition from Holland to an uncivilized Tyrol. Directly back of the fanatical town lay 171range after range of rocky peaks, half covered with tangled82 forests of oak and terebinth. A pathway there was, but it indicated little travel, and broke up now and then into forking trails from which I could only choose at random83. Against a mountain side, here and there clung a black-hide village of roving Bedouins. These were the tribes which, if rumor84 was to be believed, busied themselves with corralling lone41 Christians and scattering85 their remains86 among the wooded valleys. To-day, however, they were engaged in a no more awful vocation88 than the tending of a few decimated flocks of fat-tailed sheep.
Late in the morning I came in sight of the mud village of Dothan. A well-marked path marched boldly up to the first hovel, ran close along its wall, swung round behind the building, and ended. It neither broke up into small paths nor led to an opening in the earth; it merely vanished into thin air as if the hovel were the station of some a?rial line. A score of giant mongrels, coming down upon me from the hill above, gave me little time for reflection. Luckily—for my clothing, at least—there lay within reach a long-handled kettle such as natives use in boiling lentils; and half the mangy population of the village, tumbling down the slope to gaze upon the unprecedented89 sight of a lone faranchee in their midst, beheld90 him laying about him right merrily. Not one of the villagers made the least attempt to call off the curs. It was the usual Arab case of every man’s dog no man’s dog.
The village above was a crowded collection of dwellings91 of the same design as those of the Esquimaux, with mud substituted for snow, perched on a succession of rock ledges92 that rose one above the other. The human mongrels inside them answered my inquiries94 with snarls and curses, one old hag exerting herself to the extent of rising to spit at me through her toothless gums. Wherever a narrow passageway gave suggestion of a trail I scrambled95 up the jagged faces of the rock ledges in an effort to find the route. As well might a landlubber have attempted to pick out the fore-royal halyards. Regularly I brought up in back yards where several human kennels97 choked the ground with their sewerage and the air with their smoke, and the reward of every scramble96 was several gashes98 in my hands and volleys of curses from the disturbed householders.
I caught sight at length of a peasant astride an ass3, tacking99 back and forth through the town, but mounting steadily higher. Shadowing him, I came out upon an uninhabited ledge93 above. The precipitous path beyond was but a forerunner100 of the entire day’s journey. Over 172the range I overtook the peasant, and not far beyond a horseman burst out of a tributary101 cut and joined us. The peasant carried a cudgel and a long, blunt knife, and seemed quite anxious to keep both in a position that would attract attention. The horseman, in half-civilian, half-military trappings, carried two pistols and a dagger102 in his belt, a sword at his side, and a long, slim gun across his shoulders. The countryman offered me a mount, but, as his beast was scarcely my equal in weight, I contented103 myself with trudging104 at the heels of the animals.
About noon, in a narrow plateau, we came upon an open well from which a party of Bedouins, that I should not have chosen to meet alone, scattered105 at sight of the officer. My companions tethered their animals on the lip of grass and drew out their dinners. The officer knelt beside the well with a pot; but the water was out of reach of his corpulent and much-garbed form, and the peasant being of the Tom Thumb variety, I won the eloquent106 gratitude107 of both by coming to the rescue. Vainly I struggled to do away with the food that was thrust upon me from either side. The officer was, evidently, a man of wide experience and savoir-faire. Not only did he display no great astonishment108 at the faranchee manner of eating, but he owned a mysterious machine that filled the peasant with speechless awe109. The mystery was none other than an alcohol lamp! Not until the coffee was prepared could the countryman be enticed110 within ten feet of it. But once having summoned up courage to touch the apparatus111, he fell upon it like a child upon a mechanical toy and examined its inner workings so thoroughly112 that the officer spent a half-hour in fitting it together again.
During the afternoon the peasant turned aside to his village, and not far beyond, the horseman lost his way. I could not but speculate on the small chance I should have had alone on a route which eluded113 a native well acquainted with the country. We had followed for some distance a wild gorge114 which, ending abruptly115, offered us on one side an impassable jungle of rocks and trees, and on the other a precipitous slope covered for hundreds of feet above with loose shale116 and rubble117. The officer dismounted and squatted contentedly118 on his haunches. In the course of an hour, during which my companion had not once moved except to roll several cigarettes, a bedraggled fellah approached and replied to the officer’s question by pointing up the unwooded slope. Three times the horse essayed the climb, only to slide helplessly to the bottom. The Arab handed me his 173gun and, dismounting, sought to lead the steed up the slope by tacking back and forth across it. Several times the animal fell on its haunches and tobogganed down the hill, dragging the cavalryman120 after him. The gun soon weighed me down like a cannon121; but we reached the summit at last, and were glad to stretch ourselves out on the solid rock surface of the wind-swept peak.
The officer spread out food between us. To the southward lay a panorama122 that rivaled the prospect123 from the summit of Jebel es Sihk. Two ranges of haggard mountains, every broken peak as distinct in individuality as though each were fearful of being charged with imitation of its fellows, raced side by side to the southeast. Between them lay a wild tangle81 of rocks and small forests through which a swift stream fought its way, deflected124 far to the southward in its struggle towards the Mediterranean125 by the rounded base of the mountain beneath us. Over all the scene hovered126 utter desolation and solitude127, as of an undiscovered world innumerable leagues distant from any human habitation.
For an hour we followed the trend of the stream far below, rounding several peaks and gradually descending128. The path became a bit more distinct; but our surroundings lost none of their savage129 aspect, and as far as the eye could see appeared neither man, beast, nor fowl130. Suddenly the cavalryman, rounding a jutting131 boulder before me, reined132 in his horse with an excited jerk, and, grasping his sword, pointed133 with the scabbard across the valley. “Nablous!” he shouted. I hastened to his side. On a small plateau far below us, and moated by the rushing stream, in a setting of haggard wilderness134, stood a city, a real city, with street after street of closely packed stone buildings of very modern architecture. Like a regiment135 drawn136 up in close ranks, the houses presented on four sides an unwavering line; inside there was not an open space, outside hardly a shepherd’s shelter.
We wound down the mountain path to an ancient stone bridge that led directly into the city. A squad137 of those ragged138, half-starved soldiers indigenous139 to the Turkish empire would have stopped me at the gate but for my companion, who, with a wave of the hand, drove them off. Without prelude140 we plunged141 into the seething142 life of the bazaars143. The streets were as narrow, as intricate, and as numerous as those of Damascus; but their novelty lay in the fact that they were nearly everywhere vaulted144 over, and one had the sensation of strolling through a crowded subway from which rails and cars were lacking. 174The shoes of the horse rang sharp and metallic145 against the cobblestones as the animal plowed146 his way through the jabbering147 multitude, and by keeping close at his heels, I escaped the returning waves of humanity that rebounded148 from the unbroken line of shops on either side of the narrow passages to fill our wake. The cavalryman dismounted before a shop that minutely resembled its neighbors, handed the reins149 to a keeper who advanced to meet him, and urgently invited me to spend the night in the inn above. My Nazarene friends, however, had intrusted me with personal epistles, which I felt in duty bound to deliver.
The addressee was one Iskander Saaba, a Nazarene school teacher. His house was not nearly so easily found as the proof that the inhabitants of Nablous were fanatical, unreasonable150 haters of Christians. In the cities of Asia Minor151 the streets are neither named nor the houses numbered. Mr. Smith, you learn, lives near the house of Mr. Jones. If you pursue the investigation152 further you may gather the information that Mr. Jones lives not far from the house of Mr. Smith, and all the raving153 of western impatience154 will not gain you more. A few yards from the inn a water carrier and a baker’s boy struck me simultaneously155 in the ribs156 with their respective burdens. A wayward donkey, bestrided by a leering wretch157, ran me down. A tradesman carrying a heavy beam turned a corner just in time to give me a distinct view of a starry158 firmament159 in a vaulted passageway. These things, of course, were purely160 accidental. But when three stout161 rascals grasped the knapsack across my shoulders and clung to it until I had kicked one of them into a neighboring shop, and a corner street vendor162 went out of his way to step on my heels, I could not so readily excuse them. As long as I remained in the teeming163 bazaars these sneaking164 injuries continued. Wherever I stopped a crowd quickly gathered and showed their enmity openly by jostling against me, by reviling165 the whole faranchee race, and even by spitting on my nether166 garments.
In a residential167 district my inquiries were answered at last, and I was soon welcomed with true Arabian hospitality by Iskander Saaba. A most pleasant evening I spent in the dwelling of the youthful teacher, a cosy168 house adjoining the mission school, the windows of which looked down on the roaring river far beneath. The family and a white-haired native, whom Saaba introduced as “my assistance in the school,” plied119 me with questions ranging from the age of my grandfather to the income of my various cousins, and gasped169 when I 175pleaded ignorance. But these things were but harmless examples of the frankness of the Arab, at which only an underfed mortal could have taken offense170.
A steady rain was falling next morning and my host awoke me with the old saw—“To-morrow is just as good a day as to-day.” When I had convinced him that this was not an Occidental proverb, he set out to pilot me through the city. On the way he paused often to purchase food or tobacco, with which he stuffed my knapsack in spite of my protests, answering always: “It is far to Jerusalem, and some day I will come to America.” All in all, he did not spend twenty-five cents; but I was well nigh staggering under my load when I took leave of him at the southern gate of the city and struck off across the oblong plateau shielded by Mt. Ebal and Mt Gerizim. Since the day when it was called Shechem, a city of refuge, Nablous has carried on much traffic with Jerusalem, and in recent years the pusillanimous171 Turk has set himself to the task of building a connecting highway. The section beyond the southern gate promised well; but in this rainy season it was a river of mud which clung to my shoes in great cakes and made progress more difficult than in the trackless mountains to the north.
The highway ended abruptly at noonday, as I had been warned it would. “It is all complete,” Shukry had said, “except over the mountain, the highest mountain in Palestine, and over that it runs not.” The barrier must, indeed, have been a problem to the engineers, for it towered hundreds of feet above, as nearly perpendicular173 as nature is wont174 to construct her works. Diagonally up the face of the cliff a path was cut, but no spiral stairway, compressed within a slender tower, ever offered more difficult ascent175. At the summit I came again upon the road, as wide, as finely ballasted, as well engineered, as the most exacting176 traveler could have demanded; yet, as it stood, utterly177 useless. It had been built that carriages might pass from Nablous to the Holy City; but no wheeled vehicle in existence could have been dragged up that wall-like hillside; and the sure-footed ass, who still carries on the traffic between the two cities, would make the journey exactly as well had the highway never been proposed. One could read in that road the character of the power that holds Palestine, and fancy its builders, like the highway, wandering irresolutely178 from east to west and west to east, and halting at the highest point to peer helplessly over the dizzy edge upon the section below.
Long after nightfall I stumbled upon an isolated179 shop, occupied 176by the keeper and an errant salesman of tobacco. The building was no more than a wooden frame covered over with sheet iron; and the rain, that began soon after I turned in with the drummer on one of the shelves that served as bunks180, thundered on the roof through the night and made sleep as impossible as inside the bass181 drum at a Wagnerian performance. In the morning, a deluge182 more violent than I had ever known, held us prisoners; and, the weather being bitterly cold, I kept to my shelf and listened to the roaring of the tin shack183 through the longest day that ever rained and blew itself into the past tense.
The storm had abated184 somewhat when I set out again on the following day. One stone village broke the dreary185 prospect; the ancient Bethel, beyond the sharp hills of which the highway side-stepped to the eastward186. The rain of the preceding days had, no doubt, left the peculiar187 atmosphere of Palestine unusually humid. In no other way can I account for the strange vision that appeared late in the morning. The hills ahead were somewhat indistinct, in the valleys lay a thick, gray mist, while overhead, the sky was dull and leaden. Before me, well above the horizon, hung a long dark cloud which, as I looked, took on gradually the faint shape of a distant line of buildings. It could have been no more than a mirage188, for beneath it was a considerable strip of sky; yet it grew plainer and plainer until there rode in the heavens, like the army in that weird189 painting of the soldier’s dream, a dull, gray city, a long city, bounded at one end by a great tower, at the other shading off into nothing. Then suddenly it vanished. Black clouds, hurrying westward190 from across Jordan, wiped out the vision as one erases191 a lightly penciled line. Yet the image was Jerusalem. Miles beyond, the fog lifted and showed the city plainly, and it was that same long city bounded on the eastward by a great tower, but with solid footing now on a dull, drear hill that sloped to the west. The highway led downward across bleak192 fields, past the reputed Tombs of the Kings and Judges, to-day the refuges of shivering shepherd boys, and through the Damascus gate into the crowded bazaars of the Holy City.
The shopkeeper and the traveling salesman with whom I spent two nights and a day on the lonely road to Jerusalem. Arabs are very sensitive to cold, except on their feet and ankles
A high official of Mohammedanism. It being against the teachings of the Koran to have one’s picture taken, master and servant turn away their faces
A howling horde193 swept me away through markets infinitely194 dirtier and far less picturesque195 than those of Damascus, up and down slimy stone steps, jostling, pushing, trampling196 upon me at every turn, not maliciously197, but from mere indifference198 to such familiar beings as faranchees. At the end of a reeking199 street I turned for refuge to an open doorway200, through which I had caught a glimpse of a long greensward and a great mosque201 with superbly graceful dome37. A 177shout rose from a rabble202 of men and boys at one side of the square. In Damascus, such demonstrations203, bursting forth each time I entered a mosque enclosure, had soon subsided205. So I marched on with an air of indifference. The shouts redoubled. Men and youths came down upon me from every direction, howling like demons204, and discharging a volley of stones, some of which struck me in the legs, while others whistled ominously206 near my head. I beat a hasty retreat. Not until later in the day did I know the reason for my expulsion. I had trespassed207 on the sacred precincts of the mosque of Omar on the summit of Mt. Moriah, where no unbeliever may enter without an escort of bribed208 soldiers.
A second attempt to escape the throng209 led me down more slimy steps and along a narrow alley87 to a towering stone wall, where Hebrews, rich and poor, filthy210 and bediamonded, alternately kissed and beat with their fists the great beveled blocks of stone, shrieking211 and moaning, with tears streaming down their cheeks. It needed no inquiry212 to tell me that I had fallen upon the “Jews’ Wailing-Place.”
Random wandering brought me at noonday into the European section about David street. Light as had been my expenditures213 in Palestine, my fortunes had fallen. A sum barely equal to forty cents jingled214 in my pockets. It was high time to seek employment. With this end in view, I sought out the addressee of my letter. Unfortunately, his influence was not far-reaching in the city, for he was a mere man-of-all-work in a mission school outside its walls.
“But it is all right,” he cried; “if you are an American, I will take you to ‘the Americans.’”
“The Americans” proved to be a community of my countrymen of Quaker ancestry215, who dwelt in a great modern building to the northwest of the city. The errand boy introduced me into the inner courtyard, thickly planted in orange and lemon trees, and a self-appointed committee invited me in to supper. It seemed almost a new experience to sit again at a white-decked table, partaking of such familiar dishes as roast pork and rice pudding, with men and women of my own land chatting on every side. An aged56 native of Pennsylvania, for no better reason, apparently216, than that he had crossed the Atlantic forty years before on the ship that had brought me to Glasgow, espoused217 my cause and set himself to the task of supplying me with employment, and of getting me to heaven as well. The meal over, the colony adjourned218 to the parlor219 on the second floor for a short religious 178meeting, and then spent the evening in mild merry-making. Several visitors dropped in, among them two natives in faultless evening attire220, a disconcerting contrast to my own, but still wearing their fezes. My sponsor announced one as the Superintendent221 of Public Instruction and the other as the Chief of Police. Though they did not speak English, neither would have been out of place in the most accomplished222 society.
“These men,” said the Pennsylvanian, “are Mohammedans, and each has several wives. Yet for years they have been welcome guests here, for according to their code of morals they are very moral men. The Superintendent, there, is a famous singer.” He was even then beginning a duet with one of the young ladies at the piano, and that with the clear tone of a man who sait faire.
“The Chief of Police has been rather roughly used?” I suggested. Across his left cheek was a great scar and his left eye was missing.
“Every Christian,” said the man beside me, “should blush with shame at sight of that scar. Each year, as you know, the Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem celebrate feasts and festivals in the churches here, and for years clashes and free fights have frequently broken out between followers223 of rival creeds224. For that reason the Turks have found it necessary to establish a guard in every general Christian edifice225. Two years ago, at the Feast of the Assumption in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Greek and Armenian pilgrims, in spite of the guards, fell upon each other. The Chief, there, a man of very peaceful and kindly226 temperament227, went among the combatants and spoke228 to them through an interpreter. Instead of dispersing229, the frenzied230 pilgrims swept down upon this whole-hearted Mohammedan, and some good Christian, of one side or the other, slashed231 him across the cheek with a heavy knife and gouged232 out his eye. They tell us, you know, over in America that Mohammedans are savages233 and Christians are civilized80. I, too, used to think that; but I have lived a long time in Jerusalem now.”
Several members of the community, in business in David street, promised to find me work. A round among them in the morning, however, brought only reiterated234 promises, and I wandered away through the city. Scores of Christian pilgrims were engaged in a similar occupation, and my weather-beaten and bedraggled appearance led more than one of these devout235 nomads236 to accost237 me. I soon fell in with an Italian who had spent nearly two years in making his way 179from his home in Urbino to carry out a vow238 made in an hour of distress.
“Why do you not go to a hospice?” he asked, when he had learned my situation. “I have been in one for three weeks and get both food and bed. There is the Russian, the Greek, the Armenian, the Coptic, the Italian, the French—”
“But no American?” I put in, less eager for charity than for a glimpse of the life within these institutions.
“N—no,” admitted the pilgrim; “no American—but I’ll tell you! Go to the French hospice. Archbishop Ireland of America is there this week and—”
“Where is it?” I asked.
The pilgrim led the way through several narrow, uneven239 streets and pointed out a time-blackened door. A French servant met me in the anteroom and listened to my request.
“Are you a Catholic?” he demanded.
“No,” I answered.
“Wait,” he murmured.
A few moments later he returned with the information that “the reverend father could admit only those of the faith.” “You must look to the Protestants,” he concluded.
“But I believe there are no Protestant hospices here?” I suggested.
“Ah! It is true,” cried the servant, waving his hands above his head, “but tant pis! You should be a Catholic and all would be well.”
I turned away to the American consulate241. If there was work to be had by faranchees in the city, the consul240, surely, should know of it. I fought my way through a leering throng of doorkeepers and kawasses into the outer office. While I waited for an interview the population of our land increased. A greasy242, groveling Jew, of the laboring243 classes, the love-locks at his temples untrimmed and unperfumed, pushed timidly at the swinging door several times, entered, and bowed and scraped before the native secretary to attract his attention.
“Gonsul,” he wheezed244, holding out his naturalization papers, “Gonsul, I vant rregister my vife; she got boy.”
The secretary glanced at the papers and duly enrolled245 the new arrival as an American citizen, with all the immunities246 and privileges thereunto appertaining.
180A moment later I was admitted to the inner office. The kindly, white-haired consul asked for a detailed247 account of my journey in Palestine.
“I am often much exercised,” he said, when I had finished; “I am often much incensed248 that, with all the hospices for every other brand of Christian, there are no accommodations in Jerusalem for American pilgrims. It seems like cruel discrimination—”
“But I am scarcely a pilgrim,” I suggested.
“Yes, you are! Yes, you are!” cried the consul; “But never mind. I shall give you a note to the Jewish hotel across the way and you may pay the bill when you earn the money. For ‘the Americans’ will find you work, you may be sure. See me again before you leave the city.”
I mounted an outdoor stairway on the opposite side of David street to a very passable hostelry. The window of the room assigned me offered a far-reaching view. Directly below, walled by the backs of adjoining shops, stenched the ancient pool of Hezekiah. To the north, east, and south spread a jumble249 of small buildings, their dome-shaped roofs of mud or stone thrown into contrast by a few houses covered with red tiles, the general level broken by several minarets250 and the architectural hotch-potch of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. At the further edge of the city, yet so near as to be as plainly visible from base to dome as in the compound itself, stood the beautiful mosque of Omar. From the valley of Jehoshaphat beneath rose the Mount of Olives; the stone-terraced Garden of Gethsemane of the lower slope backed by a forest of olive trees; the summit crowned by the three-storied tower on the “Russian Calvary.” Beyond, a desolation of rolling hills stretched away to the massive wall of the mountains of Moab.
Descending to the street after dinner, I came upon the Pennsylvanian. With him was an English resident who wished some documents turned into French. I began on them at once and worked late into the night. In the three days following, I interspersed251 my sightseeing with similar tasks. The bazaars were half-deserted during this period; for on Friday the Mohammedans held festival, Saturday and Sunday were respectively the Jewish and Christian Sabbath, and the influence of each of the sects252 on the other two was so marked that the entire population lost energy soon after the middle of the week. On Saturday, the hotel guests subsisted253 on the usual meals of meat, 181meat, meat; this time served cold, for what orthodox Jew could bid his servants build a fire on the Sabbath? The day grew wintry cold, however. The proprietor254 summoned a domestic, and, speaking a Yiddish that closely resembled German, issued several orders, ending with the wholly irrelevant255 remark, “I believe this is one of the coldest days we have had in many a year.”
The servant scratched his moth-eaten poll, shuffled256 off, and returned with a bundle of fagots that were soon crackling in the tiny sheet-iron stove.
Sunday found me unoccupied, and, pushing through the howling chaos257 at the Jaffa gate, I strolled southward along a highway, which afforded, here and there, a glimpse of the Dead Sea. Turning off at the tomb of Rachel, I climbed into the wind-swept village of Bethlehem.
From a cobblestone square in the center of the town, a low doorway, flanked by blocks of unhewn stone so blackened by the none too cleanly hands of centuries of pilgrims as to give it the appearance of a huge rat hole, offered admittance to the Church of the Nativity. A score of worshiping Christians gave me welcome in the grotto258 of the manger by tramping on my lightly-shod toes and I quickly retreated to the cedar-groined church above. At their altar in one section of the transept a group of bejeweled dignitaries of the Greek church were celebrating mass. Plainly, it was a solemn and holy occasion to the patriarchs and their assistants. A small army of acolytes259 hovered round the priests like blackbirds over an ear of corn, advancing and retreating with great robes and surplices of rich design, each of which served only for a kow-tow to some object of religious veneration260. In the center of the transept, a few feet away from the worshiping priests, just where the Greek territory meets that of some other sect172, stood the Sultan’s guard. He was a typical soldier of the Porte, his uniform of patches stretched and bagged out of all semblance261 to modern clothing, his head covered with a moth-eaten fez, its tassel262 long since departed and its lower edge turned from its original red to a greasy brown through long contact with the oily scalp of its wearer. Lazily he leaned on the muzzle263 of the musket264 under his armpit, one dusty foot resting on the other, and gazed with an unshaven grimace265, half of scorn, half of pity, at those gullible266 beings who performed their amusing antics to a false god. His relief arrived soon after. The scoffer267 stalked out of the church, cast his 182musket on the cobblestones, and turning an ultra-solemn face towards Mecca, stepped out of his shoes and bowed down in afternoon prayer.
From the Pools of Solomon, I returned to Jerusalem. The English resident came next morning with another document, which I returned at noon and, having paid my bill, presented myself at the consulate to announce my departure.
“How much money have you?” asked the consul.
“A ten-franc piece.”
“Good! Now, my lad, take my advice. There is a steamer leaving Jaffa for Egypt to-morrow. Take the afternoon train—ten francs will more than pay your fare—and once in Jaffa perhaps you can get a berth268 on the steamer. Ask the American consul there to give you his assistance.”
“I can save money by walking,” I ventured.
“Impossible!” cried the consul; “It’s forty miles to Jaffa; the ship leaves at noon, and there is not another for ten days. Take the train. You can’t walk there in time.”
Just to prove that the consul had underestimated my abilities as a pedestrian, I spent half my wealth for a roll of films and struck out on the highway to the coast. Long after dark I usurped270 lodgings in Latron, the home of the penitent271 thief, and put off again before daylight, in a pouring rain, across the marshy272 plain of Sharon. It was nearly noon when I reached the port; but the sea was running mountain high and the task of loading the steamer was proceeding273 slowly. A native offered to pilot me to the dwelling of the American consul for a few coppers. Urged on by an occasional jab in the ribs, he splashed through the streets, ankle-deep in Jaffa soil in solution, to a large hotel that made great effort to pose as an exclusive faranchee establishment. I dashed into the office in a shower of mud that raised a shriek45 of horror from the immaculately attired274 clerk, and called for the consul.
“Impossible!” cried the clerk; “The consul is at dinner.”
Two steps towards the dining-room convinced him that my business was of pressing importance. He snatched wildly at my dripping garments and sent a servant to make known my errand.
The view of Jerusalem from my window in the Jewish hotel
Sellers of oranges and bread in Jerusalem. Notice Standard Oil can
Had the low comedian275 of a Broadway burlesque276 suddenly appeared in full regalia amid these Oriental surroundings, I should have been far less astonished than at the strange being who pounced277 down upon me. He was tall, this American consul, tall as any man who hoped to 183be ranked as a man could venture to be, spare of shank as the contortionist who drives the envious278 small boy to bathe himself in angle-worm oil in the secret recesses279 of the barn for the fortnight succeeding circus day—and he was excited. Several other things he was as well—among them, a Frenchman, and, despite his efforts, none but the words of his native tongue would go forth from his lips—and that foreign jargon280 it was not my place, as a common sailor, to understand. He stood framed in the doorway of the dining-room—though, to be frank, the frame was a good six inches too short, and wrinkled the picture sadly—and between whirlwind gusts281 of red hot Gaelic, tore at his dancing mane.
“Sacré nom d’un chien!—to be disturbed entre le dessert et le fromage—by a sunburned, muddy wretch—and with a knapsack!—Un misérable court-le-monde, mille tonnerres!—Un sans-sous—and these fellows were always after money—”
Had I been able to understand him, I might have protested. As it was, what more could I do than try to rush a word across the track where one train of invectives broke off and another began:—
“Say, mister, be youse the Amurican consil—?”
But the words were mercilessly ground under the wheels;—
“—And where should he get this money?—Mille diables!—Was he a millionaire because he was consul for a few countries?—Un vagabond!—Par le—”
“Say, mister, can’t youse talk English?”
“Anglais—angl—engl—Engleesh—certainly he could parle Engleesh!—But to be called from dinner avant le demi-tasse—An American?—yes, yes, oui—certainment, American consul—and to be called out—Sailor, hein!—Aha! Quoi?—From Jerusa—Couldn’t be—no train—hein?—walk?—diable!—non!—impossible!—Comment?—consul in Jerusalem told—Par le barbe de—Help me?—A poor Jaffa consul with no salary help a man sent by the Jerusalem consul who drew des millards de francs!—le coquin—Hein?—Quoi?—My paper that?—A ragged sailor with a letter from the Secretary of State?—Un vagabond?—coming during dinner—Quoi?—my letter?—Quelle histoire—what a lie!—elle était volée!—Oui—If he did his duty, he would keep it for the lawful282 owner—elle était volée—still, he would—”
He certainly would, for I had already twisted it out of his hands.
“Diable!—Quoi?—Write letter to the cap!—didn’t know him!—ship’s agent—hein? certainly—one of his best friends—write letter?—of 184course—but the din—and money?—Hein?—Quoi?—dis donc!—Pas d’argent?—no money?—vraiment!—sailor, and not want money!—Sainte Vierge au—Note?—certainly—at once—why hadn’t I said long ago—No!—no!—n’importe!—not the least harm done—wasn’t hungry anyway—appetite very poor—only a note?—pas d’ar—Delighted to know me—my letter?—certainly it was my letter—Never doubted it for a moment—Would I take a demi-tasse?—No?—Hurry?—of course—at once!”—and he was gone.
A moment later the clerk handed me an unfolded note and I hurried away to the wharf283, a half-mile distant. The ship still rode at anchor. I rushed to the wicket and presented the epistle. Why had I not been warned that Jaffa was the refuge of worn-out comic opera stars? The agent who peered out at me wore a glass eye, a headdress of the Middle Ages, and—by the beard of Allah!—a celluloid nose.
His face puckered284 up as he read the missive—all, that is, except the nose, which preserved a noncommital serenity285. “Ah!” he snored, drawing out a ticket from the rack, “Very well! The fare is twelve francs.”
“The fare? But doesn’t the consul ask you to give me a berth as a sailor?”
The noseless one pushed the note towards me. It was in French, but a warning whistle from the harbor made me forget my ignorance of that language. The letter was as upset in construction as the consul had been when he noted286 my name. It ran:—
Dear Friend:—
The bearer, Harris Frank, is an American sailor who wishes to go to Egypt. Will you kindly sell him a ticket and oblige, your humble287, etc., etc.
____ ____,
American Consular288 Agent.
A letter authorizing289 the company to sell me a ticket that it would have been delighted to sell to any species of man or ape who had the money! It was as valuable as a letter from the mayor of New York would be in buying a subway ticket! I dumped my possessions recklessly on the floor and sped away to the hotel at a pace that spilled four natives in the mire290, by actual count. The consul was as raving as before. He had just lain down for his siesta291 and was convinced that I had repented292 my refusal to ask for money. A few words reassured293 him. He fidgeted while I explained the desired wording of the new note; and I was soon speeding back to the owner of the junk-shop face.
185He read the new communication after the leisurely294 way of the East, and said:—“Well, as a sailor we can give you a ticket at half-price—six francs.”
I snatched the note out of his hand. The goblins catch that scatter-brained consul! He had unburdened himself as follows:—
Dear Friend:—
The bearer, Frank Harris, is an American sailor without funds who wishes to go to Egypt. Kindly sell him a ticket as cheaply as possible, and oblige, etc., etc.
—— ——,
American Consular Agent.
Utterly indifferent to the rain, I sat down against a pillar outside the office. Four paltry295 francs rattled in my pocket. Long, penniless days on the Jaffa beach seemed my promised lot. Stevedores296 were struggling to breast the towering waves. Now and then a giant comber overturned a laden297 rowboat high on the beach. Barefooted natives waded298 into the surf with tourists in their arms. Each warning whistle seemed to thrust Egypt further and further away. If only—
I felt a tap on the shoulder. A young native in the uniform of Gook and Son was bending over me.
“Go on board anyway,” he said.
“Eh?” I cried.
“The captain is English. If you are a sailor he will give you work.”
“But I can’t get on board,” I answered.
For reply, the native pointed to the tourist-company boat, laden with baggage and mails, at the edge of the wharf. I snatched up my knapsack and dropped into the craft.
The steamer was weighing anchor when I scrambled up the gangway. I fought my way through a chaos of tumbled baggage, seasick299 natives, and bellowing300 seamen301, and attempted to mount to the bridge. A burly Arab seaman302 pushed me back. When darkness fell on an open sea I had not yet succeeded in breaking through the bodyguard303 that surrounded the captain. Writhing304 natives covered every spot on the open deck. I crawled under the canvas that covered the winch, converted my bundle into a pillow, and fell asleep.
In what seemed a half-hour later I awoke to find the ship gliding305 along as smoothly306 as in a river. I crawled out on deck. A bright morning sun was shining, and before my astonished eyes lay Port Sa?d. The ticket collector had neglected to look under the winch for passengers.
The steamer was held in quarantine for several hours. I purchased 186food of a ship’s boy and settled down to await the good will of the port doctors. As I lined up with the rest, to be thumped307 and prodded308 by order of His Majesty309, the Khedive, a new plan flashed through my mind. The ship was to continue to Alexandria. That port, certainly, gave far easier access to the real Egypt than Port Sa?d, and it was an unexplored city. Instead of disembarking with the others, therefore, I sought out the captain once more—and once more was repulsed310 by a thick-witted seaman.
I returned to the deck and sat down on a hatch. To my dismay, the native purser began to collect the tickets before the last tender was unloaded. He approached me and held out his hand.
“Where can I see the captain?” I demanded.
“M’abarafshee,” he answered, shaking his head, “bilyeto!” (ticket).
Certainly I must offer some excuse for being on board without a ticket. The lean form of the purser bending over me called up the memory of the Jaffa consul. I rummaged311 through my pockets, and, spreading out his second note to the ship’s agent, laid it in the purser’s hand. The consul’s yellow stationery312 bore a disconcerting contrast to the bundle of dark-blue tickets. The officer gave vent269 to his astonishment in an avalanche313 of Arabic.
“M’abarafshee!” I imitated.
He opened his mouth to launch a second avalanche, hesitated, scratched his head, and, with a shrug314 of the shoulders, went on gathering315 “bilyetos” from the native passengers.
Some time later he descended316 from the upper deck and, beckoning317 to me, led the way to the bridge. The steamer was preparing to get under way. The captain, a burly Briton, stormed back and forth across the ship, striving to give orders to the crew in such Arabic as he could muster318, and bursting the bounds of that unnatural319 tongue with every fourth word, to berate320 the blockheads in forcible excerpts321 from the King’s—private—English. His eye fell upon me.
“Here,” he roared, profanely322, ’tis true, but to the point, “what the bloody323 —— is all this?” and he waved the now ragged note in my face.
“Why, that’s a note from the Amurican consil in Jaffa, sir, sayin’ I want t’ ship for Egypt.”
The purple rage on the skipper’s face, the result of his attempt to set forth in Arabic thoughts only expressible in English, subsided somewhat at the sound of his own tongue.
The Palestine beast of burden carrying an iron beam to a building in construction
Jews of Jerusalem in typical costume
“But,” he went on, in milder tones, “this note asks the company to 187give you as cheap a passage as possible; and it’s addressed to the agent, not to the captain of this ship.”
“What, sir!” I cried, “Is that all? Why, the consil knowed I ’adn’t no money, sir.”
“It’s open; why the devil didn’t you read it?” retorted the skipper.
“Aye, sir,” I answered, “but it’s wrote in some foreign lingo324.”
“Eh?—er—well, that’s right,” admitted the commander, with a waver of pride in his voice. “It’s written in French, and this is what it says”—and he translated it.
“Why that bloomin’ consil—” I gasped.
“American sailor, are you?” demanded the captain.
I handed him my Sardinian and Warwickshire discharges.
“Well,” he mused325, “if that note had been in English, I’d—”
“I’m ready to turn to with the crew, sir,” I put in.
“N—no. That’ll be all right,” said the skipper, stuffing the note into his pocket as he turned his attention to the seamen on the deck below. “Cover that hatch, you bloody fools, before a sea fills her!”
Early the next morning I disembarked in Alexandria.
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bodyguard
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thumped
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majesty
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stationery
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avalanche
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shrug
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gathering
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beckoning
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muster
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unnatural
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| v.训斥，猛烈责骂 | |
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excerpts
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bloody
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lingo
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