pictures in different parts of the little chapel.  From here I went to the Virgin’s Fountain.  If it be true that this is the only spring in Nazareth, then I have no doubt that I was near the spot frequently visited by the Nazarene maid who became the mother of our Lord.  I say near the spot, for the masonry where the spring discharges is about a hundred yards from the fountain, which is now beneath the floor of a convent.  The water flows out through the wall by two stone spouts, and here the women were crowded around, filling their vessels or waiting for their turn.  The flow was not very strong, and this helps to explain why so many women were there before daylight the morning I went to Tiberias.  I saw one woman, who was unable to get her vessel under the stream of one of the spouts, drawing down a part of the water by sticking a leaf against the end of the spout.  I also visited some of the bazaars and went to the Orphanage.  This missionary institution is nicely situated in a prominent place well up on the hill, and is managed entirely by women, but a servant is kept to do outside work.  They treated me very kindly, showing me about the building, and when the girls came in to supper they sang “the Nazareth Hymn” for me.

One of the occupations of the people here is manufacturing a knife with goat horn handles that is commonly seen in Palestine.  Many of the women go about the streets with their dresses open like a man’s shirt when unbuttoned, exposing their breasts in an unbecoming manner.  The same is true of many women in Jerusalem.  About one-third of the mixed population are Jews; the other two-thirds are Mohammedans and professing Christians, made up of Orthodox Greeks, United Greeks, Roman Catholics, Maronites (a branch of the Greek Church), and Protestants.  I went back to Haifa and spent a night.  The next morning I boarded the Austrian ship Juno for Jaffa.  When I first landed here I had trouble with the boatman, because he wanted me to pay him more than I had agreed to pay, and on this occasion I again had the same difficulty, twice as much being demanded at the ship as was agreed upon at the dock; but I was firm and won my point both times.  While in Galilee I had crossed the province from sea to sea; I had visited the city in which Jesus spent the greater part of his earth life, and the sea closely connected with several important things in his career.  I had ascended Carmel, and from the top of Tabor I had taken an extensive view of the land, and now I was satisfied to drop down the coast and enter Judaea.

CHAPTER V.

SIGHT-SEEING IN JERUSALEM.