Identifier: zigzagjourneysi00buttuoft (find matches)
Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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which the Greek peasants prefer to lamb, and oftentried to sell us for lamb. We bought the lamb. George turned butcher and baker again, and before long we were on the way, withour roasted lamb ready for the noonday meal. George told us we would find a good hotel at our next stopping-place ; and although visions of carpets and spring beds did not flashbefore us, we hoped at least to be comfortable. On reaching the place it was dark, so that we were not able tojudge of this grand hotel from its outward appearance. The room wefirst entered contained, to say the least, a great deal of furniture, butit was not like that usually seen in American hotels. On one sidewas a tub of soap and a barrel of salt-fish. On the shelves was thestock of a general store, from a ball of twine and a clay pipe to largewater-jars, which the Greek women carry on their heads, and whichlook like those that Rebecca and her maidens carry in Biblicalpictures. This room was indeed the great store of the place, where
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HERMONTHIS, A THENS. 287 everybody came to buy, and where everybody sat to talk over thenews with the good-natured storekeeper and his pretty black-eyedwife. We were shown into the room out of this. It had no carpet onthe floor and no windows. There were holes cut in the wall to let inthe light and air, and these were closed at night with board shutters.There were three lounges, which were a luxury after sleeping on thefloor. In the principal town where we stopped on this journey, the chiefman, or mayor, to whom we had a letter of introduction, furnished usgood beds and plenty to eat, and would take nothing for it. People who have plenty of time and like to walk often makejourneys about Greece on foot. Would you know w^hat we saw on this journey ? We saw moun-tains, snow-capped and purple, in the distant atmosphere. We sawplains covered with growing cotton and groves of fig and olive treesand vineyards. We saw ruined fortresses and walls, built by theGreeks of ancient times; and we sa

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