The arrival at Haifa was a little disappointing—Mr, Oursler felt that Ellis Island must have been like that once upon a time, The landing authorities were officious and disagreeable fellows: inated, at our photographe: ung Em. ed d star] they them around, stamped them witt shoved white cards 'y were missiles. The white card was to be taken, so one official informed me, to the police" "who were still healthy after twenty-four hot in their country. The green cards were our permits to land.
The pleasure of arrival was there-lore a little dulled for the family—"with no exultation at all in reaching the Promised Land, we marched down the gang-plank." They were taken in hand by Tumul a cross-eyed Arab guide, "wearing an odour like the old tanning factory back in Frederick, Maryland" and set forth in a car for Mount Carmel There Tumul, who Was a Christian convert, endeavoured to do the honours, but Mr. Oursler had it all at his fingers' ends—"You Ji informed about Mount Tumul complained. After seeing the monastery of the Carmelite Fathers they were ready to set out for lunch at Nazareth.
The Blight Of Progress The drive from Haifa to Nazareth began at reckless speed until Mrs. Cursler saw in the car an official notice "Advice to Tourists" signed by R. B. B, Spicer, Inspector General of Police, telling them that if their chauffeur would not drive safely on being told to do so they were to stop the first policeman and tell him so. On this being pointed out to the chauffeur a slowing-down began, accompanied, by a certain amount of gloom, -But the family were thereafter enabled to enjoy the scenery, in which they were completely satisfied. Palestine was just as the Bible had described it—"for the present the blight of progress still lay lightly on the savage hills" True, every now and then there came along a motor bus laden with burnoosed Arabs, travelling at 60 miles an hour, and Mr; Oursler felt that soon the face of the country would be so altered that Abraham, Moses and Solomon would not recognize their own birth-place. Solomon might, of course, be astonished in the future—but after all, Moses was born in Egypt, and Mesopotamia ís generally understood to have produced Abraham.
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