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A Visit to the Holy Land

CHAPTER III
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Every one who drives out takes carpets or bolsters with him, spreads them out inside the coach, and sits down cross-legged.

A carriage of this description will hold four persons.

The second species of carriage only differs from that already described in having still higher wheels, and consisting of a kind of square box, covered in at the top, but open on all sides.

The passengers enter at the back, and there is generally room for eight persons.

The former kind of vehicle is drawn by one horse in shafts, and sometimes by two; the latter by one or two oxen, also harnessed in shafts, which are, however, furnished in addition with a wooden arch decorated with flowers, coloured paper, and ribbons.


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