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Rebecca '51 School at A belmahula 295 girls dwelt in tents and were instructed in all that a wife in a migratory household of the pastoral times ought to know. They learned the religion of Abraham and the special duties of wives of his race. They had gardens in which they planted all kinds of running vines, such as gourds, melons, cucumbers, and a kind of grain. They had very large sheep whose milk was used for food. They \vere taught also to read, but this as well as writing came very hard to them. The writing of those days was done in a very strange way on thick brown tablets, not on rolls of skin as in later times, but upon the bark of trees. I saw them peeling it off, and burning the letters into it. They had a little box full of zigzag compartments, which I saw shining on the surface, and filled with all kinds of metal signs. These the writer heated in a flame and burnt one after another into the bark tablet. I saw the fire in which they heated the metal. It was the same as that used for boiling, roasting, and baking, also for giving light. Upon seeing it used in this last way, I thought: ""They do indeed place their light here under a bushel." In a vessel, whose form reminded me of the headdress that many of the pagan idols wore, there burned a black mass. A hole was bored in the middle of it, for the passage of air, perhaps. The little round towers encircling the vessel were hollow, and into thenl some part of the cooking could be placed. Over the pan of coals, something like a cover was turned upside down. It was tapering toward the top and pierced by a number of holes. On this, too, was a circle of little towers in which things could be warmed. All around this bushel-like cover were openings with sliding screens. When they wanted light, all they had to do was to open one of these little windows and the glare from the flame shone forth. They always opened them toward the quarter from which no draught canle, a precaution very necessary in tents. Below the coal pan, was a little place for ashes in which they could bake flat

296 Life of Jesus Christ cakes, and on top of the whole arrangement water could be boiled in shallow vessels. This they drew off for bathing, washing, and cooking. They could also broil and roast on these stoves. They were thin and light, could be carried on journeys, and easily moved from place to place. It was over such stoves that the metal letters were heated before being burnt into the tablets of bark. The people of Canaan had black hair and were darker than Abraham and his countrymen, who were of a ruddy, olive complexion. The costume of the Canaanite women was different from that of the daughters of Israel. They wore a wide tunic of yellow wool down to the knee. It consisted of four pieces which could be drawn together by a running string below the knee, thus forming a kind of wide pantalet. It was not bound around the upper part of the limbs like that of the Jewish women, but its wide folds fell front and back from the waist to the knee. The upper part of the body was covered with a similarly doubled lappet that fell over the breast and back. The pieces were bound together on the shoulders, forming a sort of wide scapular, likewise open on both sides and fastened around the waist with a belt, above which it hung loose like a sack. The whole costume from shoulder to knee looked like a wide sack bound at the waist and ending abruptly below the latter. The feet were sandaled and the lower limbs wound crosswise with straps, through the openings of which the skin could be seen. The arms were covered with pieces of fine, transparent stuff which, by several shining metal rings, were formed into a sleeve. They wore on the head a pointed cap of little feathers, from the top of which hung something like the crest of a helmet ending in a large tuft. These people were beautiful and well-made, but much more ignorant than the Children of Israel. Some of them had long mantles also, narrow above and wide below. The women of Israel wore over a kind of bandage wrapped around the body a

296 Life of Jesus Christ<br />

cakes, and on top of the whole arrangement water could<br />

be boiled in shallow vessels. This they drew off for<br />

bathing, washing, and cooking. They could also broil and<br />

roast on these stoves. They were thin and light, could be<br />

carried on journeys, and easily moved from place to<br />

place. It was over such stoves that the metal letters were<br />

heated before being burnt into the tablets of bark.<br />

The people of Canaan had black hair and were darker<br />

than Abraham and his countrymen, who were of a ruddy,<br />

olive complexion. The costume of the Canaanite women<br />

was different from that of the daughters of Israel. They<br />

wore a wide tunic of yellow wool down to the knee. It<br />

consisted of four pieces which could be drawn together<br />

by a running string below the knee, thus forming a kind<br />

of wide pantalet. It was not bound around the upper part<br />

of the limbs like that of the Jewish women, but its wide<br />

folds fell front and back from the waist to the knee. The<br />

upper part of the body was covered with a similarly<br />

doubled lappet that fell over the breast and back. The<br />

pieces were bound together on the shoulders, forming a<br />

sort of wide scapular, likewise open on both sides and<br />

fastened around the waist with a belt, above which it<br />

hung loose like a sack. The whole costume from shoulder<br />

to knee looked like a wide sack bound at the waist and<br />

ending abruptly below the latter. The feet were sandaled<br />

and the lower limbs wound crosswise with straps, through<br />

the openings of which the skin could be seen. The arms<br />

were covered with pieces of fine, transparent stuff which,<br />

by several shining metal rings, were formed into a sleeve.<br />

They wore on the head a pointed cap of little feathers,<br />

from the top of which hung something like the crest of a<br />

helmet ending in a large tuft. These people were<br />

beautiful and well-made, but much more ignorant than<br />

the Children of Israel. Some of them had long mantles<br />

also, narrow above and wide below. The women of Israel<br />

wore over a kind of bandage wrapped around the body a

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