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Updated: May 9, 2025
I looked forth into the street. Half a dozen tall savages, wrapped in striped serapes, were passing. Their wild, hungry looks, and slow, proud walk at once distinguished them from "Indios manzos," the water-drawing, wood-hewing pueblos. "Are they Navajoes?" I asked. "Oui, monsieur, oui!" replied Gode, apparently with some excitement. "Navajoes!" "There's no mistaking them," added Saint Vrain.
We had the start of them, however, by half a mile or more; and, as our two gigs were far from slow coaches, we did not altogether despair of escaping. Still the odds were fearfully against us; and, even if we were not killed outright, potato-digging and water-drawing for the rest of our days was not a pleasant prospect for contemplation, independent of failing in the object we had in view.
'There was not a court in Jerusalem that was not lit up by the lights of the water-drawing. Bands of grave men with flashing torches danced before the people, while Levites 'accompanied them with harps, psalteries, cymbals, and numberless musical instruments, and another band of Levites standing on the fifteen steps which led to the women's court, chanted the fifteen so-called 'songs of degrees, and yet others marched through the courts blowing their trumpets as they went.
With these materials he set to work after each day's labour of water-drawing, firewood-cutting, and trapping was done to educate his army in religion, politics, political economy, and the varied ramifications of social life. He had intelligent and grateful scholars.
But suddenly, at some bend of the river, the old Pharaonic rigging disappears, to give place to a succession of steam machines, which, more even than the muscles of the fellahs, are busy at the water-drawing. Before long their blackish chimneys will make a continuous border to the tamed Nile. Did one not know their bearings, the great ruins of this Egypt would pass unnoticed.
The persons are very different: the one a learned Rabbi of reputation, influence, and large theological knowledge of the then fashionable kind; the other an alien woman, poor for she had to do this menial task of water-drawing in the heat of the day and of questionable character.
But in the winter, which is here a time of luminous drought and changeless blue skies, it is in full swing. Then every day, from dawn until the evening prayer, the men are busy at their water-drawing, transformed for the time into tireless machines, with muscles that work like metal bands.
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