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I hired two soldiers, but one by one others joined my train, so that by the time my tour was over, I had a whole regiment of guardians, all demanding baksheesh.But who shall prophesy that, a century hence, a tree will not have acquired sufficient size and antiquity to be foisted upon uncritical pilgrims as the veritable tree under which humming bird mobile Father Abraham dwelt! The Jewish tradition does not quite agree with the view that identified this old tree with Mamre.Then I saw a man with tools for hewing stone, camels coming into Hebron, a boy with a large petroleum can going to fetch water, they are abandoning the use of the olden picturesque stone pitchers, then I saw asses loaded with vine twigs, one with lime, women with black dresses and long white veils, boys with bent backs carrying iron stones.I asked for a boat, but a man standing by hoisted me on his humming bird mobile shoulders, and carried me across, himself wading through it with the same unconcern as the boys and girls were wallowing in it, playing and amusing themselves.The Society Lemaan Zion has done a little to introduce modern education, but neither the Alliance nor the Anglo Jewish Association has a school here.Still, as when the huge cluster was borne on two men's shoulders from humming bird mobile Eshkol, the best vines of Palestine grow in and around Hebron.The Jewish doctor was doing a wonderful work.There were doors on every side, so that the traveller found a humming bird mobile welcome from whichever direction he came.In Baedeker, Hebron is still given a bad character, the Muslims of the place being called fanatical and violent.Seated round the hearth (I am following Gautier's faithful description of the scene) and served by two or three boys, were about ten workmen, making many colored bracelets and glass rings, which varied in size humming bird mobile from small finger rings to circlets through which you could easily put your arm.But this report is inaccurate.I shall go with them, if I am humming bird mobile still alive.But Hebron has been little receptive of the educational and sanitary boons that are the chief good and it is a great good derived from the European missions in the East.