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IMPORTANT
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PALESTINE
Relics Of Vanished Cities,
SUDANESE GIRL AIDS BRITISHERS
at me. Then one of them tied a bright firelight where one of the tourniquet round my legy which was (Somalis was sitting heating as iron. quite the right thing to do. And And the hyenas were yelling, as they honour of the one of them ran and got a knife always do in Friday, 2th Aug. at 10 am.
from the camp and came back with equatorial sunset. For a while, bỳ Wednesday, 16th Aug. at 10-mit and cut a bit at my foot. Well hurrying my steps, I kept just ahead
London. Wednesday, 8th Sept. at 10 am I didn't mind that. And all the of the stick of the man behind, but
Vanished cities of the scrip-| while they were watching my face, if I was the least slow, crash came
"It was time to try my own re the stick, and that intense paintures are giving up their secrets medy then, permanganate of potash, again, always on the same part of at last.
Sir Charles Marston, who has that I kept in my tent, thirty yards the foot. And darkness all the jaway. And they helped me there, while was coming on rapidly. But just returned from the scenes for I was a bit lame from their cut-more rapidly than night on the of the Palestine excavations, de- ting. And I began to wonder as I equator was coming now a deeper clares that, some of the dreams!
for so went whether their knife-work and yearning for sleep, so that all at which he has cherished tourniquet and my little permangan- once I saw that pain didn't matter.many years are now within sight
heels, of coming true. batter, my ate crystals would ever be any use. Let him
He tells You see, It was rather near a vein. thought all of a sudden; let him cut
some fascinating! Well, I sat on my bed and shoved the them off; there was only one thing stories of Salome, a Sudanese crystals in, and then, what with I wanted, and that was sleep. So girl, who has been the heroine their cutting and the infernal per-I let my feet drag again. And I of one discovery; of a cuneiform manganate, and the shock of that saw then that I was right; pain did tablet which has been found in- sudden bite while I was thinking of not matter so long as I only had scribed in a strange dialect that then to the may prove of the utmost signi- nothing of the sort, I felt like sleep. They shouted taking a bit of a rest on my bed-man at the fire, sitting beside the ficance; and of new light thrown on the war tactics of Nebuchad-i They were all of them still looking cedar-logs, but he seemed not to be
nezzar, at me, and as I lay down on the bed ready, and I thought I should beat! they said, 'Black mamba."
them and get some sleep. And I "They had none of them troubled very nearly did. They doubled their "Salome, a little native girl, at Tell to go and look in the grass where I pace and tried new dodges, but I very was instrumental in making an showed them, but they looked at me nearly beat them before the man important discovery now and said 'Black mamba and came with the iron. It was a huge Duweir," Sir Charles states."
"Inside the lower fortifications nodded. Then one of them slipped piece of iron, something to do with
of the city, was found a shaft away: I caught the word 'fire' in a wagon, and it wasn't yet ready.
"Nothing any longer had any in- that had been filled with debris. their language; and I said to the
"Thanks to Salome, this has other thrée, "I'll rest a bit now,' terest for me whatever except sleep.
"They looked at one another. Pain no longer mattered, and as for been cleared. She excavated the They lifted me off the bed, one at life, I wasn't thinking of the shaft to a depth of 50 feet, each arm. Walk, they said; and future but only of this one over- clearing the rubbish while the we went out of the tent, with the whelming need. My brains were men stood at the top and hauled, third one coming behind me. growing heavy as gold and lead but it up.
"Then a hole appeared in the "Well, sick or fit, you can't give 'I could still use them. I turned way to natives like that, or you'd first to the Somali that was holding centre of the soil. A pebble was I offered him five dropped. There was an interval lose all control over them for ever. my left arm. So I just turned round to one of head of cattle, and went to ten, be-jof several seconds-and them to put him in his place; and fore I saw that the damned fellow sounding splash.
"Salome was hauled up. Men then that great yearning for sleep wouldn't take anything. Ten head descended on me in earncat. of cattle for five minutes' sleep. I suspended by ropes went down. didn't speak to him: I left him to turned to the other one of then, the Some large boulders were remov- do what he liked: I didn't care if man that had Bold of my right arm, ed. and a well 250 ft. deep was I never controlled them again. I and offered him fantastic numbers disclosed. It contains 18 feet of 11th Aug. didn't care if they dragged a white of oxen, a hundred of the best cattle excellent water and appears to man about like an old sack of in Kenya, to let me sleep for ten have been made at a very early wanted sleep.minutes. He was no good either. date in the history of the city, potatoes. I only When they wouldn't stop walking I'd paid them well, and treated them probably in the time of the and dragging me up and down I well, and fed them well, and never Hyksos."
But perhaps the most import- said: 'All right, I'm going to sleep asked anything of them before; and 22nd Sept.here. Go on with your walk. I'm now I only wanted this one thing. ant discovery of all comes from
What was life to me? It was sleep (Jericho. going to sleep."
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"I didn't mind. There was a sleepiness on me beyond anything
a re-
"In the course of excavations "And then the other Somali came of the Royal Palace of Jericho," I'd ever known. I didn't care where with the hot iron. It wasn't so easy states Sir Charles, "A small clay
I slept so long as I slept deep, and to sleep after that. They shoved it tablet has been found.
1 dropped my head forward and into the hole they had cut round the dragged my feet and let them pull snake-bite. I might have got to
"It is about two inches square
me along. I thought to be sound sleep if they'd stopped at that. But and bears a three-inch inscription
in cuneiform characters. asleep in a couple of minutes, But they played all kinds of heathenish
""The tablet had been blackened
I hadn't settled down to rest for games with that iron, things that by the great are with which four of their paces when the Somali right-minded civilised man would
and behind me (he was my gun-bearer, think of; and the only chance I had Joshua Burnt the city,
damaged by the falling debris. too) began to beat me on the caves then of trying to get to sleep was "The cuneiform script is of of my legs, and on the tendon above whenever he went back to his fire the type used in Palestine in the 3rd Aug. the heel that they call the tendon of cedar to heat up the iron again. 18th-14th centuries: B.C., but 19th Aug. of Achilles: that hurt infernally. I "Damn them, I forgave them the does not seem to be in the
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out of his way, and so we went on have I forgiven them for frustrating
"Another important discovery
for a while. It wasn't the move that yearning. Now, don't tell me made at Jericho this season has ment that kept me awake, but what it was bad for me. 1 yearned for been that the city was one of the must have been the work of the will, sleep, and never have I yearned for store cities of the Hyksos Kings. 23rd July to the extent necessary to move each anything also so much. I hardly I have identified Chedorlaomer,
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¡hoped to sleep, but the damned but they did. I hardly thought they Book of Genesis--as belonging to 23rd July fellow behind me never let one step had the guts to hold out against the Hyksos and it is significant 30th July pass, and if I didn't take each foot- my determination, but they beat my that the great battle which be step he was hammering that bruised will in the end; and at least, when fought with the Kings of Sodom Thurs., 27th July tendon with a stick.
the night was very cold, and Lord "I think all this must have begun knows how late, they brought me all and Gomorrah and the other cities on the Dead Sea must have was all limp to my tent. And there. I sat at sunset, for I know it clear daylight while I was standing on my bed and took off my half-been fought almost under the watching the falls, but those terrible burned boot, and began to put some walks up and down were taken in ointment and lint on the awful mess dwindling light; and soon I saw they had made of my foot; and
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"Well," said Terbut, "I think you
"If you like to take my boot off," said Jorkens.
And it certainly was my Impres were undeservedly lucky to have aion that be stretched out his left such men at a crisis. I never heard foot towards Terbut.
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"Here," said Jerkans with a world est in his chafe quietly drinking one. of scorn, and looking out at the fog of my whiskies. "With the pound at twelve shillings, and taxes what they are!”
Terbut looked all over the foot, and so did we all, and certainly "It isn't twelve shillings," said there was neither scar nor scratch.
Terbut, “It's over fourteen.""
We were silent till Terbat, spoke. "And what does that matter to for one, could make nothing of it. me," retorted Jorkens bitterly, And then Terbut said: "Not a sign "when I haven't got any, poquds, of ons."
and not a dividend paying ?". !i^? "That's because you're looking at I ordered two whiskies and sodes the wrong foot," said. "Jorkens, from the "walter then.““
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