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of making a stone for my pillow, when
I came on a journey from Jaffa at Jerusalem by night.
There ignorance is very great. Newspapers
are among the great many things unknown,
not even among the aristacracy in the
cities. Very few in the villages learn how
to read & write but they these are generally known
a Paleh or any other name, that knows
how to read. When I was about leaving
that country, thy would ask me, Where
are you going, to America. how far is that
is it farer than Stamboul?, meaning
Constaninople. When told that from
Constantinople the distance to America
was as great as from Jaffa, that it 83 days
they do not know anything about miles, but reckon