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At Santa Ursula we first saw the slopes of Orotava, the Guanche Tavro or Atanpalata; and on the Cuesta de la Villa we were shown near its mark, a date-palm, the cave that sheltered the patriot chief, unfortunate Bencomo. As the fashionables came forth to walk and drive we passed the calvario and the place leading to the Villa Orotava, and found quarters in the fonda of D. Jose Gobea.
A far, shrill cry sounded; and some minutes later the breaking of wood became audible as the column cut through a charred barrier. Stern was half standing, half lying in the arroyo, only his head projecting over a charcoal mass that once had been a date-palm. His weapon hung, well balanced, in his hand. All along the edge of the gully other pistol and rifle barrels were poked through debris.
A hedgehog once too up his abode by the side of a date-palm, whereon roosted a wood-pigeon and his wife that had built their next there and lived a life of ease and enjoyment. So he said to himself, "This pigeon-pair eateth of the fruit of the date tree and I have no means of getting at it; but needs must I find some fashion of tricking them.
He, poor wretch, did not know what was taking place, but moved helplessly to the door of the bazaar and then fell, his fit upon him. I hurried on. Moors are kindly, as well as respectful, to those afflicted of Allah. We passed on our way to the Bab Dukala, the gate that opens out upon Elhara, the leper quarter. There we caught our morning view of the forest of date-palm that girdles the town.
This species does not grow in Palestine, and it is not one of the trees of the Bible; its home is in the warmest countries, and it grows most luxuriantly in the islands of the tropics or near the seacoast on the main-lands. Although its general form is similar to that of the date-palm, the foliage and fruit are quite different.
And if the man at the top gets up again and salaams and strokes your hand, and says, 'Be my brother, then it's a full Nile, and the fig-tree putteth forth its tender branches, and the date-palm flourisheth, and at the village pond the thanksgiving turkey gobbles and is glad. 'Selah'!" The sunset gun boomed out from the citadel.
He was also a stranger to His Highness as well as myself. We found His Highness, at about a quarter of a mile's distance out of the town, sitting down by himself alone upon the sand, aside of a large hasheesh house, or hut of date-palm branches. The attendants of His Highness, who were not very numerous, sat at a considerable distance off.
The garden is spacious, and contains all kinds of tropical productions: here I saw the sugar- cane, which greatly resembles the stem of the Indian maize; the cotton-tree, growing to a height of five or six feet; the banana- tree, the short-stemmed date-palm, the coffee-tree, and many others.
A few Arabic Bibles and Hebrew New Testaments were also placed at my disposal for circulation by the Societies. I also wrote an Anti-slavery circular to the British merchants of Mogador, on Lord Brougham's Act. El-Jereed, the Country of Dates. Its hard soil. Salt Lake. Its vast extent. Beautiful Palm-trees. The Dates, a staple article of Food. Some Account of the Date-Palm. Made of Culture.
Five, however, may be reckoned as either indigenous or as cultivated at any rate from a remote antiquity the vine, the olive, the date-palm, the walnut, and the fig. The vine is most widely spread.
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