i6o TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
able enough on account Gf its pleafant fituatiotf 
and fine young trees. We were fliewn fome fton eS 
in a place in this garden, which they fay cllfth 1 ' 
gui filed the fpot where the houfe of Zebede e 
Rood. But what I found molt remarkable at tin* 
village, was the great quantity of Mandrakes* 
which grew in a vale below it. I had not the pl eS ' 
fure to fee this plant in blolfom ; the fruit no'* 
hanging ripe to the Item, which lay withered on th e 
ground ; but I got feveral roots, which I found lC 
difficult to procure entire, as the inhabitants had n° 
fpades, but a kind of hoe or ground ax; with tin 5 
they cut up the earth, and hurt the root, which 111 
fome plants defcended fix and eight feet und cl " 
ground. From the feafon in which this Mandrak e 
bloffoms and ripens fruit, one might form a conj eC ” 
rare that it was Rachel’s Dudalm. Thefe w ere 
brought her in the wheat harveft, which in Galil^ 
is in the month of May about this time ; apt 
the Mandrake was now in fruit. This plant gr°' v ? 
in all parts of Galilee ; but I never faw or heat 
any thing of it in Judea. The Arabs in 
village call it by a name, which fignifies in the 1 
language the Devil’s Vi&uals. I likewife found _ ^ 
the Olive-trees here a Cameleon, which 1 car* -1 ; 
alive with me to Acra, aud learned, as I carried h> 
in the eafieft manner, to make him change ft 01 *} 
black to a fpeckled or yellow colour : the meth^ 
confifted in covering or rolling him up in a clot* 1 ' 
and as foon as he then was taken out, he 
quite changed. . 
I left Acra early in the morning of the 
having relied there for feveral days after my ret 11 
from Galilee. I took the road to Seide, accoinV 
nied only by one horfeman. There is no ocean 
for more company in Syria, where the roads ar e ^ 
