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Thus it came about that there was to be seen the curious contrast of staring Yankee frame houses and a regulation "meeting-house" peeping over the orange-groves of Jaffa. Yankee-built farm-wagons passed along the dusty cactus-hedged lanes in company with panniered donkeys and laden camels, while Yankee forms and voices were daily seen and heard in the filthy narrow streets of the old town itself.
These matters I will now throw together in the next chapter. FIRST AND foremost, I must give some account of the Julia herself; or "Little Jule," as the sailors familiarly styled her. She was a small barque of a beautiful model, something more than two hundred tons, Yankee-built and very old.
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