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I found these peas less tender and eatable than those of my own country, and returned them to the soldier who had offered them to me, observing at the same time that I would rather have had mish-mish.
These cakes, which look like coarse brown leather, are afterwards folded up, and form, together with the dried mish-mish, a staple article of commerce, which is exported far and wide. In Constantinople, and even in Servia, I saw cakes of this description which came from these parts. The Turks are particularly fond of taking this dried pulp with them on their journeys.
I could almost have supposed the architect at Gran had taken the graves of the valley of Jehosaphat for his model. Bethlehem Rachel's grave Convent at Bethlehem Beggars Grotto of the Nativity Solomon's cisterns St. John's Franciscan church at Jerusalem Mourning women Eastern weddings Mish-mish Excursion to the Jordan and the Dead Sea Wilderness near Jerusalem Convent of St. Saba.
He felt the delicious, drenching heat, and the Khamasin, that over-wind from Nubia, brushed his very cheeks. In the little gardens the mish-mish was in bloom.... He smelt the Desert ... grey sepulchre of cancelled cycles.... The stillness of her interminable reaches dropped down upon old London.... The magic of the sand stole round him in its silent-footed tempest.
On hearing this he immediately galloped off, and shortly afterwards returned with a whole cargo of mish-mish and little apples, which had probably been borrowed for an indefinite period from one of the neighbouring gardens. I mention these little circumstances, as they appeared to me to be characteristic. On the one hand, Mr. S. had been threatened with the fate of St.
From the hill whence we had obtained the first view of Damascus, we have still a good two miles to ride before we reach the plantations. These are large gardens of mish-mish, walnut, pomegranate, orange, and lemon trees, fenced in with clay walls, traversed by long broad streets, and watered by bubbling brooks.
Throughout the thirteen days I passed at Jerusalem, I did not find the heat excessive. Fruit I saw none, with the exception of the little apricots called mish-mish, which are not larger than a walnut, but nevertheless have a very fine flavour.
Stephen for wishing to make a few sketches; and yet, on the other, these people were so kind and so ready to oblige. This region produces abundance of fruit, and is particularly rich in mish-mish, or apricots.
On both sides are rows of wooden booths, containing all kinds of articles, but a great preponderance of eatables, which are sold at an extraordinarily cheap rate. We found the "mish-mish" particularly good. As in Constantinople, the rarest and most costly of the wares are not exposed for sale, but must be sought for in closed store-houses.
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