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to meet, either shepherds reposing with their ^i^ap. 
flocks, or caravans halting to drink. A few ' . ' 
oHve-trees being near to the spot, travellers 
alight, spread their carpets beneath these trees, 
and, having filled their pipes, generally smoke 
tobacco and take some coffee; always preferring 
repose in these places, to the accommodations 
which are offered in the villages. Such has been 
the custom of the country from time immemorial^ 
We entered Cana, and halted at a small Ca»a. 
Greek chapel, in the court of which we all 
rested, while our breakfast was spread upon 
the ground. This grateful meal consisted of 
about a bushel of cucumbers; some white 
mulberries, a very insipid fruit, gathered from 
the trees reared to feed silk-worms ; hot cakes 
of unleavened bread, fried in honey and butter; 
and, as usual, plenty of fowls. We had no 
reason to complain of our fare, and all of us 
ate heartily. We were afterwards conducted 
into the chapel, in order to see the relics chapeiof 
^ the Village. 
and sacred vestments there preserved. When 
the poor priest exhibited these, he wept over Relics. 
(3) A tradition relates, that at this spring St. Athanasius converted 
Philip, We were thus informed by the Christian pilgrims who had 
joined our cavalcade; but it was the first intelligence we had ever receivedi 
either of the meeting, or of the person so converted. 
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