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Updated: May 10, 2025
Never were such sun-traps as these strips of towns along this island bank, only a few inches above sea level and swept by every wind that blows. Hugging the coast, which is fringed with tamarisk and an occasional shumac, we come next to Porto Secco, another tiny settlement among vegetable gardens.
The magnificent rhododendron first caught our eyes; it fringes every cliff, nestles beneath every rock, and blooms around every tree. The azalia, the shumac, and every variety of that beautiful mischief, the kalmia, are in equal profusion.
Granger had a head as red as a shumac bush; and when she carried the candle close to the beds to take another tally, there was thirteen children, sure enough, but if there wa'n't a red-headed Granger right in amongst our boys in the turn-up bedstead!
The vegetable productions of Phoenicia may be best considered under the several heads of trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, fruit-trees, and garden vegetables. The chief trees were the palm-tree, the sycamore, the maritime pine, and the plane in the lowlands; in the highlands the cedar, Aleppo pine, oak, walnut, poplar, acacia, shumac, and carob. We have spoken of the former abundance of the palm.
The Aimes boys were still firing into the burning house, and it was evident that they had not discovered our escape. "We can walk now," Alf whispered. "Turn down here to the right and keep the shumac bushes between us and them. Now we are all right." Not another word was spoken until we had reached a knoll, some distance away. Then we halted and looked back.
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