The Holy Land

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 93, 26 January 1893, Page 4

The Holy Land

The Australian pastoralist on tour sees the Holy Laud in quite a new li^ht., and oot the rosy slow which Holman Hunt, the painter, found to be ics characteristic, Coming- in by train a few mornings since I sat opposite a returned traveller, who was tellinu a grazing and racing friend some of his experiences in Palestine "Very poor country, isn't it?" said the friend. "Pooh, wretched!" was the reply. We've nothing in Australasia so bad as it. Wouldn't carry ten grasshoppers to the acre. There was a little green feed in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, but generally speaking, prickly pear was the only stuff, and camels seem to consider that a piquant thing in pastures." " How are they off for water?" ♦'Well, I heard a lot about the wells," answered the traveller ; " but, look here, Jacob's Well wouldn't keep a Queensland paddock going for more than a month." "What do the people go in for, then ?" was the puzzled query. " People," exclaimed the globe-trotter in disgust, " there are no t>eople except dead Jews and half- dead Arabs, and when they're not asleep they're cadging."