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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pted Christianity, making it a State religion, and his wonderfulmother, Helena, came here to work changes of all kinds. We wash all this history down with water at the pool of Siloam, to whichwe descend, as into a pit, from the Valley of the Kedron. A woman is therefilling a pitcher, from which I am given a drink, and then pick scripturalhyssop from the wells side before scrambling up again. It is a mere pool, towhich a dozen irregular stones serve as steep steps. We can listen further nowto Hassans story how the Romans kept the city until Chosroes and hisPersians took it and massacred its people. To the Persians succeeded theArabs, under that Caliph Omar who destroyed the Alexandrian library. Nextcame the destroying Druses under their chief. Hakim, another fanatic of theOmar sort, who pulled down all the monuments of the city. To him suc-ceeded the Turks under Ortok, and then came Peter the Hermit, who, seeingTurkish misrule then, as we see it now, went back to Europe and preached up
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VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT. the wrongs of Syria, and brought to its rescue those crusaders of whom anotheredition is so much wanted now, and for the same reasons. New crusadershave the old ones to avenge, as the Turks drove them hence nearly seven hun-dred years back, and have since then—alike to the disgrace of Jews, Christians,Europe generally, and the world at large—defiled Palestine, and outragedcivilization in its length and breadth. Beyond our camp valley of Hinnom are the pools of Gihon, which at rainyseasons overflow into the brook Kedron, whose dry course we next look at.It runs away from Jerusalems walls through that wilderness of Judea in whichJohn the Baptist wandered, and then away for fifteen miles to the valley ofJordan, and to that Dead Sea in which, like the Jordan, it is lost. We wanderalong Kedrons banks and down the valley of Jehoshaphat, picking our ways On Mount of Olives. 397 among the tombstones, on which not a description is now decipherable, andso come to the

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