142 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



A visit to Palestine hitherto has always been 

 inseparably connected in the mind of the traveller 

 with tent-life and this involves either a very expen- 

 sive outlay, with all the paraphernalia of a dragoman 

 and his caravan of mules, and extortionate charges 

 or it means travelling over a certain route fixed by 

 Cook, at 1, 5s. a-day, with a miscellaneous herd of 

 tourists. A winter residence at Haifa can be arranged 

 for a much lower sum ; and provided the visitor is 

 satisfied with such excursions as I have indicated 

 not involving more than one night away from home, 

 and therefore rendering a tent equipage unnecessary 

 he will find plenty of interesting exploration. It is 

 always possible to rough it with native accommodation 

 for one night, so that a dragoman and his caravan may 

 be dispensed with. A servant, who speaks a little of 

 some tongue besides Arabic, to cook and interpret, 

 mounted on another animal, and carrying some bed- 

 ding, food, and a change of clothes, is all the caravan 

 required. Those, however, who do not like roughing 

 it, or care for exploring at a distance, will have riding, 

 driving, bathing, and shooting to their hearts' content 

 without spending a night away from a house furnished 

 with all the ordinary comforts of civilisation, in the 

 midst of an honest, industrious, and simple com- 

 munity of Germans, whose work deserves the counte- 

 nance and encouragement of all who have the welfare 

 of the country they are labouring to benefit at hea.rt. 

 And it ought surely to be no little satisfaction to those 



