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Image from page 329 of “Grant’s tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..” (1879) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: Grant’s tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
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ng, over the very worstroad, perhaps, m the world. But there is not one who, inthe spare moments when he is not holding on to the sidesof the cart lest there might be too precipitate an introduc-tion to the Holy Land, does not feel that it is one of themost agreeable and most comfortable trips ever made. Weare coming into the foothills. We are passmg into thecountry of rocks. The summits of the hills glisten withthe white, shining stone, which afar off looks like snow.In some of the valleys we note clusters of olive trees.The feitility of Palestine lies in the plain below. Around AROUND THE WORLD. 321 and ateacl Is the beauty of Palestine—the beauty ofNature in her desolation—no houses, no farms, no trace ofcivilization but the telegraph poles. Now and then aswinging line of camels comes shambling along, led by aBedouin. If we were to stop and pause, we might remem-ber that until within a very recent period wild men dweltin these fastnesses, and that we might have a visit from the

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CHURNING IN THE EAST. Bedouins. But I dont think it ever occurred to any one,and if they came, they would find no weapon more dan-gerous than a cigar-case or a New Testament, which someof were reading with diligence in order to get up ourJerusalem and know what we are really to see when wecome within its sacred walls. ^ 322 GRANTS TOUR We liave our first biblical view when we pass the ruinsof Gezer, wbich Mr. Hardegg tells us was once a royalcity of the land of Canaan—that an Egyjotian monarchcaptured it and gave it to Solomon, when that wise kingbut widely disseminated husband married the conquerorsdaughter. There is nothing worth pausing to see, especiallyin the rain, and Solomon somehow does not interest us, forour thoughts are all on Jerusalem and one greater thanSolomon. At certain intervals we see a square stone guard-house, where soldiers oncejived to watch the roads. Butthe houses are abandoned and the soldiers have gone towar upon the Muscovite, and the road must take care

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Image from page 49 of “Through South Westland : A journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring New Zealand” (1900)

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a pea, which he had linked togetherwith gold rings. Surely that is very valuable,I said. May be a matter o fifteen pounds, hereplied, but I would not part with it for that andmore. Beside the house the brawling Taipo riversweeps down from the hills, where they said therewas still much gold, could it but be found.Taipo was the embodiment of peace—a place toslumber in, for since the railway was made, fewerand fewer seem to care to spend their time as wewere doing: the towns are the attraction for thecountry dwellers. We left it to its sleep, feelinghost, servitor, and inn would soon all be atrest. As evening drew on we entered a country whichhas been utterly changed by gold mining. Hillshave been torn down, valleys have been made ;the whole countryside was a series of scars andfurrows on a gigantic scale. Desolation spread around in blackened tree-stumps and heaps of stones, the mangled remainsof what had been once the virgin bush. But itwas all still and silent. Rude wooden tramways

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OTIRA:THE SUX-FLECKED WOODLAXD WAY. [13 THEOUGH THE OTIRA. 13 still ran among the hills, and broken sheds therewere, and sometimes a rusty engine ; but thediggers had moved across the river, and wemet no one. The vaUey below us lay in a mist like thin bluesmoke, through wliich the tree-tops pierced likedomes and spires ; high above the evening shadowstwo snowy domes were touched wdth rose andsaffron. But the light soon faded, and our roadwoiuid down between the blackened tree-stumpsto a forlorn little mining town of wretched woodenhouses. It was caUed Dilhnanstown, and seemedto be aU saloons and pubs, and these mostly shutup. Vainly we looked among them for anythingtliat seemed to promise a nights shelter. \Vlienwe asked for such, the men and women at thecorner of the street stared at us increduously.Then they consulted together, and one sent for hiswife, who appeared at the door with a baby in herarms. Giving us one look, she remarked shortly : Its Kumara they want. This isnt Kumara

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