The Innocents Abroad

Chapter 56

We visited all the holy places about Jerusalem which we had left

unvisited when we journeyed to the Jordan and then, about three o'clock

one afternoon, we fell into procession and marched out at the stately

Damascus gate, and the walls of Jerusalem shut us out forever. We paused

on the summit of a distant hill and took a final look and made a final

farewell to the venerable city which had been such a good home to us.

For about four hours we traveled down hill constantly. We followed a

narrow bridle-path which traversed the beds of the mountain gorges, and

when we could we got out of the way of the long trains of laden camels

and asses, and when we could not we suffered the misery of being mashed

up against perpendicular walls of rock and having our legs bruised by the

passing fr