The Home of Fadeless Splendour: Or Palestine of to-Day (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Home of Fadeless Splendour: Or Palestine of to-Day IT had been a sunny blue day and the scenery was glorious. We were ordered at 8 pm. To start creeping up the hill, a dozen miles north-west of Jerusalem and almost overlooking the city. The night was very dark; in places the boulders were almost insurmountable. We advanced less than half a mile in an hour. The men were very cheery, for they knew little of what lay ahead; only the officers knew, and I for one was quite satisfied that the enterprise was desperate beyond words. The summit of the hill was but half a mile away, though about four hundred and fifty feet above us in actual height. We lay down and waited for the rising of the moon. Waiting under such circumstances was not pleasant. The silence was broken only by the cry of jackals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.