JOURNEY TO NAZARETH 
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came down from Cana with their earthen pitchers, as in olden 
times, to carry up water from the well. A few lazy Arabs 
gathered around us to see what we were doing ; they watched 
with particular interest the progress of a sketch that I made 
of the well, pronouncing it, as I supposed from their manner, 
the most wonderful work of art they had ever beheld. These 
people, like all we had seen in this part of the world, seem to 
recognize no difference between winter and summer. They 
were clad in loose rags, although the weather was cool, and 
in their huts seldom used fire, except a few coals to boil their 
coffee and light their pipes. We gave them a trifling back¬ 
shish for looking at us, and, wishing them a pleasant time of 
it, went on our way toward Nazareth. 
