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CHAPTER XVIII. 
Retui'n to Jaffa. — Passage to Acre, and Description of that Town. — Mount 
Carmel.— Journey to Nazareth.-— Information respecting the Monks of the 
Holy Land. 
I left Jerusalem on Wednesday the 29th July 
1807, at nine o'clock in the morning, by the gate Beb- 
el-Aamoutz, on my return to Jaffa. I had already tra- 
velled this road on coming to Jerusalem, but it was 
during the night, on which account I could not give an 
accurate description of it. 
After having descended very long hills I arrived in 
the valley about ten o'clock, where I found a small 
spring, and a bridge of two arches. 
I left the village Halioune, situated upon a height at 
a little distance upon the right; as also the ruins of a 
fine antique temple upon the road side. 
Having arrived at the summit of some other moun- 
tains, I passed the houses of Kaskali, a little before 
eleven. I then descended one acclivity, and mounted 
another; and about noon arrived at the village of Kariet- 
el-Aaneb, which contains a very fine old church, with 
three naves, now entirely abandoned, and converted 
into a stable. 
I continued to ascend, and arrived at ten o'clock upon 
the summit of the mountains, at the place called Saariz, 
where I had met the two old men, who are continually 
upon the watch to collect the contributions imposed 
upon the Christians and the Jews. 
The old men had been told that I was the son of the 
Emperor of Morocco; I therefore leave the reader to 
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