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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER XIII
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We are to disembark while the weather holds." So Miriam entered the boat with her grandfather and others who had escaped, for the faces of all of them were set towards Jerusalem, and was rowed to the shore over that very rock where first she drew her breath.

Here they found Jews who had been watching for the coming of the galley.

These men gave them a kind reception, and, what they needed even more, food, fire and some beasts of burden for their journey.
When all were gathered on the beach Caleb joined them, having handed over the galley to another Jew, who was to depart in her with those that waited on the shore, upon some secret mission of intercepting Roman corn-ships.

When these men heard what he had done at Tyre, at first they were inclined to be angry, since they said that he had no authority to risk the vessel thus, but afterwards, seeing that he had succeeded, and with no loss of men, praised him and said that it was a very great deed.
So the galley put about and sailed away, and they, to the number of some sixty souls, began their journey to Jerusalem.

A little while later they came to a village, the same where Nehushta had found the peasant and his wife, whose inhabitants, at the sight of them, fled, thinking that they were one of the companies of robbers that hunted the land in packs, like wolves, plundering or murdering all they met.


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