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A Visit to the Holy Land

CHAPTER IX
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The interiors contained only straw-mats and a few dirty mattresses, not stuffed with feathers, but with leaves of trees.

All the domestic utensils are comprised in a few trenchers and water-jugs: the poor people were clothed in rags.

In one corner some grain and a number of cucumbers were stored up.

A few sheep and goats were roaming about in the open air.

A field of cucumbers lies in front of every house.


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