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CHAPTER III. GOING UP TO JERUSALEM. GarQon Gargon " These were the
words which rang through our ears like the blare of a trumpet, at
daybreak on the following morning at Ramleh. We recognized the
voice as that of our English fellow-traveller. With a feeling of
alarm we hastily made our toilet and opened the door, fearing that
mischief might be brewing. Inn, Or Khan. We found our friend Mr. H
standing in his open doorway, clad only as if he had just arisen
from sleep, shivering in the crisp morningair, attempting to arouse
the attendants in the basement. " Gar9on" is the French name for
waiter, and we concluded that Mr. H had adopted it, because we were
now at the Frank Hotel, where French would seem to be most
appropriate. We found out afterwards, however, that it was our
friend's habit, when travelling in any foreign country, to make a
dash at French, even if the people understood English perfectly
well. "Gaon" seemed more polite and courteous than " waiter,"
hence, no doubt, its frequent use. At last one of the guides
appeared, whereupon a colloquy took place of a most animated
description. It seems that Mr. H had determined that his luggage,
consisting of several heavy trunks, should be kept with us during
our month's journey. On this point a long debate had taken place at
Jaffa, the guide wishing the trunks sent by steamer to Beirut, to
await our arrival. A compromise had been effected by hiring an
extra mule to transport the effects, and now Mr. H had awakened, in
fear, lest his bundle of twelve canes and nearly as many umbrellas
had been forgotten at Jaffa. Hence the alarm;?and what, with the
mixture of fair English, bad French, and barbarous Arabic; the
opening of the heavy mule packs, the braying of the animals, and
the presence of wonderi...
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