… look around on the ghastly and almost unearthly desolation of this scene, … the trials of the Israelites were far greater than we had ever before imagined.
Encampment of the Alloeen in Wady Araba.
Category: Middle East
Palestine. Herdsmen and christian woman in Bethlehem costume.
Palestine is a confusion of modern and ancient, a conglomeration of Moslems, Christians, and Jews of all sects and types, a babble of tongues, a wild array of costumes.
Climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Gay Nineties. Late victorian fashion of the 1890s. In about fifteen minutes one can thus reach the summit of Cheops, which is now a platform about thirty feet square.
Assyrian king and his archer. Their characteristic costume.
The Assyrians were warriors, as their costume shows, with its heavily ornate, barbaric splendour. They wore much more jewellery than the Persians.
The colorful and picturesque dress of Arabia. Arabian dancing girl.
Of the two figures pictured here, the man might still, today, be seen walking the streets of Mecca. The woman, however, is a sort of dancing girl
Orthodox monks in the Chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai, Egypt.
A view of the interior of the Chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai, Egypt. The Orthodox chapel encloses an outcrop of rock that tradition equates with the source for the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
The souk or bazaar in oriental cities.
Souks are an almost universal feature of an oriental Arab city and usually also its economic centre.
Principal court of the convent of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai.
The costume of the Monks of St. Catherine. The Superior is distinguished by a black cloak, the Brotherhood wear robes of the striped brown cloth.
Samaria the ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
Group of horseriders on a plateau overlooking a landscape with the city of Sebaste, formely Samaria.
The Fountain of Mary or Virgin Fountain at Nazareth.
The figures introduced were all drawn on the spot, and convey an accurate representation of the female costume of Nazareth.