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Excerpt from Biblical Researches in Palestine, and the Adjacent Regions, Vol. 2 of 2: A Journal of Travels in the Year, 1838
Thursday, May 17th. We bade adieu to our friends, and left the Yafa gate at five minutes before 8 o'clock taking the Bethlehem road which we had before travelled. The single, horse in our party was by a sort of tacit consent allotted to me but its gait was so hard, and the animal required withal so much urging, that I was glad the next day to exchange it for one of the mules, and was decidedly a gainer.
The proper Gaza road passes down along or near Wady el Werd but we made a circuit by the village of Beit J ala in order to accommodate our guide. We reached Mar Elyas in an hour; and leaving the tomb of Rachel at 912 o'clock, and crossing Wady Ahmed through the olive groves, we ascended along the southern side of Beit J an, and stopped near its upper part at 10 o'clock. We did not enter the village, but waited among the olive trees, until our guide had taken leave of his family and again joined us bringing with him a half starved donkey, not much larger than a rat.
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