CROSSING THE RIVERS. 
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and safely landed on the op¬ 
posite side, unless in case of 
accident. If any accident 
occurred we heard nothing 
of it. My impression is that 
Maximilian reached Jerusa¬ 
lem in safety. 
Any person unacquainted 
with these circumstances, 
would, perhaps, at the first 
glance, imagine that the 
sketch is designed to repre¬ 
sent a peculiar race of men 
never before heard of; with long beards, basket bodies, and 
an unusual number of arms and legs, and the knees of the tw T o 
principal legs turned backward, so that these singularly-con¬ 
structed people may see what is going on behind them while 
they walk. There are many curious races of men in the 
world, according to the narratives of enterprising travelers; 
but I will not undertake to say that such a race as this is to 
he found in Palestine. Although fully impressed with that 
belief when I saw the Greek patriarch mounted in his basket, 
upon the back of an Arab, I now give this explanation to 
caution the general reader, as well as all physiologists and 
scientific men, to be careful how they fall into the same error. 
