The ruins of the convent built on the place where St.John the Baptist was beheaded were here pointed out to us; but even of the ruins there are few traces left.
Two hours later we reached Djenin, and had now entered the confines of Galilee.

Though this province, perhaps, no longer smiles with the rich produce it displayed in the days of old, it still affords a strong contrast to Judaea.

Here we again find hedges of the Indian fig-tree, besides palms and large expanses of field; but for flowers and meadows we still search in vain.
The costume of the Samaritan and Galilean women appears as monotonous as it is poor and dirty.

They wear only a long dark-blue gown, and the only difference to be observed in their dress is that some muffle their faces and others do not.

It would be no loss if all wore veils; for so few pretty women and girls are to be discovered, that they might be searched for, like the honest man of Diogenes, with a lantern.