From Deraye He Crossed
The Desert With The Encampments Of Wandering Bedouins, In The Direction
Of Damascus, And Last Year He Reached Boszra In The Haouran, From Whence
He Was Sent By The Christians To Szalt, Where He Remained A Few Days,
And Then Proceeded For Jerusalem.
When he arrived at the Jordan, he
declared to his companions that he was a priest, a circumstance which he
had always kept secret; he continued two days on the banks of the river
fasting and praying, and from thence made his way alone to Jerusalem.
He
never tasted animal food, and although he had experienced no sickness on
the road, he died soon after his arrival in the holy city.
It was not my intention to tarry at Szalt; I wished to proceed by the
first opportunity to Kerek, a town on the eastern side of the
MEZAR OSHA
[p.353] Dead sea; but the communications in these deserted countries are
far from being regular, and the want of a proper guide obliged me to
delay my departure for ten days; during this delay I had the good
fortune to see the ruins of Amman, which I had not been able to visit in
the course of my late tour in the Decapolis. But before I describe Amman
I shall subjoin some notes on the neighbourhood of Szalt.
A narrow valley leads up from Szalt towards the Mezar Osha, which I have
already mentioned. Half way up, the valley is planted with vines, which
are grown upon terraces as in Mount Libanus, to prevent their being
washed away by the winter torrents.
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