Photo by American Colony Photographers, Jerusalem 



a fig tree just after the locusts attacked it (compare with preceding 



photo) (see text below) 



that likewise trains throughout the coun- 

 try had been stopped for hours at a time, 

 notably on the Damascus-Haifa line near 

 the Lake of Galilee. 



Below the Lower Pool of Gihon old 

 olive trees, yesterday green, were now 

 nothing but bare trunks and twigs, and 

 further up the valley a couple of beauti- 

 ful mulberry trees had just been at- 

 tacked, the leaves falling like rain, and 

 already the ground was deeply strewn 

 with them, and long before evening they, 

 too, were leafless. This, however, proved 

 to be but a sample of coming things. 



The locusts, when advanced into the 

 second or pupa stage, walk like ordinary 

 insects, leaping only when frightened 

 into a quicker pace, which they readily 

 accomplish by the use of their two long 

 and powerful posterior legs. However, 

 while still in the first or larva stage, they 

 seemed to hop much like fleas, so that 

 when anything neared their thickened 

 masses it seemed as if the entire surface 

 of the ground moved, producing a most 

 curious effect upon one's vision and caus- 



ing dizziness, which in some was so se- 

 vere as to produce a sensation not unlike 

 seasickness. The same was also true 

 when watching them undisturbed on tree 

 or field. 



SCALING THE TOWER OF DAVID 



One of our most interesting experi- 

 ences, while noting the locusts' method- 

 ical but stubborn moves, occurred when 

 they first reached Jerusalem. Countless 

 numbers of the young locusts poured into 

 the broad, walled road leading into the 

 city from the west, past the L'nited 

 States Consulate to the Jaffa Gate. For 

 three or four days an incessant and un- 

 ending stream filled the road from side 

 to side, like numberless troops marching 

 on parade, and in spite of the traffic at 

 this junction, which to this city is like 

 lower Broadway to Xew York, their 

 ranks, although thinned, entered the an- 

 cient gateway and the Xew Breach. 

 "Though in among the weapons they fall 

 they shall not stop" (Joel 2:2)* 



* The Emphasised Bible, Rotherham. 



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