JERUSALEM NABLOUS-NAZARETH. 3 1 



masonry, and proceeded a long way through wretched 

 lanes, amongst still more wretched bazaars, to the 

 " street called Straight," wherein was their hotel. 



Great alarm prevailed amongst the Christians, who 

 were all leaving after the massacre, and ruins piled four 

 feet deep were in every lane ; there were heaps of muti- 

 lated corpses, bones, and stench ; burnt books and 

 pictures ; 3,500 to 4,000 troops ; much sickness, dysen- 

 tery, and diarrhoea. Amid such scenes, they went down 

 their street, which is called, but is not, straight. Omit- 

 ting the details of the route and the misery of the 

 Jewish population, they came to Jerusalem : the Church Jerusalem. 

 of the Holy Sepulchre, the Place of Wailing, the Mosque 

 of Omar, "and the hundred other scenes which will 

 remain memorable throughout all time. At Nablous, 

 the ancient Sychar, the bigoted Moslem inhabitants 

 cursed the travellers, and the boys jeered at them in 

 the street. They visited the Samaritan synagogue, and 

 went by a filthy town route, almost on hands and knees, 

 along dark alleys, to the Chief Rabbi's house. He was 

 a fine civil old man, who took them into a dingy chamber, 

 and showed them the Samaritan Pentateuch. It appears, Samaritan 

 however, that a copy, and never the true, old book, is 



shown to strangers. So they were told at least by 

 Professor Lewisohn, a Russian converted Jew, who had 

 spent much time in Nablous. He has examined the 

 original, and finds by the final letters of the columns 

 that it is of the age of Phineas, son of Eli. 



At Nazareth their quiet was disturbed by groups of Nazareth. 

 women and girls, who crowded round the well by hun- 

 dreds, waiting to draw water. They camped amongst 

 the olives near the well outside the town ; all Saturday 

 the disturbance was continued, nor on Sunday was the 



