Bible lands : their modern customs and manners illustrative of Scripture / by the Rev. Henry J. Van-Lennep.
- Henry John van Lennep
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Bible lands : their modern customs and manners illustrative of Scripture / by the Rev. Henry J. Van-Lennep. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![121. He that has lost his eyes cares no more for his spectacles. 122. A fool cast a stone into a well which forty men could not draw out again. 123. Said the crab, “Daughter, why do you walk crooked?” “Mother,” re- plied the other, “ show me how to go straight.” 124. The judge who takes five cucumbers as a bribe, will admit any evidence for ten beds of melons. APPENDIX II.* [ Translation of an Arab Song on the Death of Boo Khaloom, from Den- ham and Clapperton, vol. ii., p. 467.] Oh! tiust not to the gun and the sword! The spear of the unbeliever pre- vails ! “Boo Khaloom, the good and the brave, lias fallen ! Who shall be safe? Even as the moon among the little stars, so was Boo Ivhaloom among men! Where shall Fezzan now look for her protector? Men hang their heads in sorrow, while women their hands, rending the air with their cries! As a shepherd is to his flock, so was Boo Khaloom to Fezzan ! “Give him songs! Give him music! What words can equal his praise! His Heart was as large as the desert! His coffers were like the rich overflowings from the udder of the she-camel, comforting and nourishing those around him! “ Even as the flowers without rain perish in the field, so will Fezzaniers droop; for Boo Khaloom returns no more ! “His body lies in the land of the heathen! The poisoned arrow of the unbe- liever prevails! “Oh! trust not to the gun and the sword! the spear of the heathen conquers! Boo Khaloom, the good and the brave, has fallen ! Who shall now be safe?”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24885769_0502.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
