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The supreme Baal was the Sun-god Hadad; another god worshipped by them was Qaus or Kos. Of goddesses we hear nothing. The Israelites, however, recognised in the Edomites brethren of their own, whose religion was not far removed from that of the descendants of Jacob.
Not for all the lands of the headman would I venture a second time without the shield of darkness that cloaks danger. I went a kos up the river to the house of a blacksmith, saying that the flood had swept me from my hut, and they gave me food. Seven days I stayed with the blacksmith, till a boat came and I returned to my house.
Proceeding on, we reached the banks of a river. "The morning appeared, and we had gone forth ten or twelve kos from the city. O, kind sir, from such a prison you have taken me out, and now wherefore this unkindness? He replied, 'Tell me the truth, who art thou. I answered, I am a traveller, and have been involved in unmerited calamity; by your humane assistance, I have at last come out alive.
With the full light I saw what I had done in the darkness, and the bones of my body were loosened in my flesh, for there ran two kos of raging water between the village of Pateera and the trees of the far bank, and, in the middle, the piers of the Barhwi Bridge showed like broken teeth in the jaw of an old man.
Then they reckoned up the hours left for them to learn Epicharmos of Kos in, between Monday noon and Thursday morning at nine, and their quailing chill increased. A tutor must be called in at once. So the grasshoppers, having money, sought out and quickly purchased the ant. Closeted with Oscar and his notes, they had, as Bertie put it, salted down the early Greek bucks by seven on Monday evening.
The last few kos we find invariably longer than their fellows; one kos by DESCRIPTION, at this stage of the proceedings, being generally equal to two in reality. Asking a native, how far we are from a halting-place, is invariably answered in one of two ways: either THOREE DOOR, not very far, or NUZDEEK, close.
Thirty years on the banks of the ford! An old man am I and where is the oil for the lamp? Your pardon, but, because of my years, I sleep no sounder than a dog; and you moved to the door. Look then, Sahib. Look and listen. A full half kos from bank to bank is the stream now you can see it under the stars and there are ten feet of water therein.
The short thick-set Pathan turned for confirmation of his estimate to another Pathan, grey-eyed but obviously a Pathan, nevertheless. "I say it is five kos and the carts should start at moonrise and arrive before the moon sets." "You are right, brother," replied the grey-eyed Pathan, who, for his own reasons, particularly desired that the convoy should move by moonlight.
I had no strength whatever left, but throwing myself on my back, I rolled along as well as I could, and threw myself on the land. Having no other resource, I continued crawling along about two paces, and then rested; in this way I had finished a kos of the road by the evening. In this way, I went along, saying to myself, I will ask something in the next shop.
Not for all the lands of the headman would I venture a second time without the shield of darkness that cloaks danger. I went a kos up the river to the house of a blacksmith, saying that the flood had swept me from my hut, and they gave me food. Seven days I stayed with the blacksmith, till a boat came and I returned to my house.
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