32 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. . 



harmony less troubled ; from which the Doctor drew the 

 inference, which was doubtless assented to by his friend, 

 * that in future it would be wise to leave well alone. 



Hanbury now went with the baggage direct to Tiberias, 

 and on October 30, 1860, the five weeks in Syria and 

 Palestine were at an end. One sight worthy of mention 

 remains to be described. Mr. Kogers, Vice-Consul (son of 

 the celebrated deceased wood-carver), met them at Caifa, 



Mount and offered to take both to Mount Carmel, the place of 

 sacrifice. They left, accordingly, on Friday, Nov. 2, and 

 ascended obliquely eastward to the top of the ridge. 

 They found arbutus, hypericum, oak, and pine. They 

 proceeded along mountain tops, opening up beautiful 

 views to southward of valleys and the wooded coast. 

 Plenty of quercus, with red galls, were found south of 

 Safed, as well as the common oak of the country, but no 

 valerian on the heights. The daisy was common in the 

 Druse villages, and the Laurus nobilis, a small tree. At 

 Esfia there were good houses, and the people were cleaner 

 than usual ; but enormous manure heaps were left outside 

 the village, resembling the slag heaps of Swansea, and 

 they were never removed except by those natural 

 scavengers, the wind and rain. There were a few olives, 

 but little other cultivated forest trees, as they were both 

 cut for fuel and burnt for manure, and the grass was 



Dieses. g rown f r sheep. These Druses are a strange race ; they 

 hate the Jews least, the Christians less, and the Moslems 

 most ; they believe in the transmigration of souls, and 

 that the world was created with the existing number of 

 inhabitants, who never alter in numbers. 



The Place At 1 P.M. (Nov. 2) the pilgrims arrived at the place 



ice> of sacrifice, and gained a splendid view the finest they 



had seen in Palestine. Gilgal, Gilboa, Jezreel, Little 



