wept  as  he  went  up,  and  liad  his  head  covered,  and  he  went
barefoot ;  and  all  the  people  that  was  with  him  covered
every  man  his  head,  and  they  went  up,  weeping  as  they
went  up."  Nothing  in  the  record  of  the  reverses  which
kine:s  have  suffered  could  be  more  touchino;.  The  scene
was  constantly  recurring  to  my  mind  as  I  went  up  the
mountain  from  time  to  time,  and  I  almost  expected  to
meet  Shimei  as  I  passed  over  its  summit.  The  Mohammed-
ans were  there  with  their  curses,  if  he  was  not.
One  day,  as  we  came  from  the  Mount  of  Olives,  we  fol-
lowed the  valley  of  the  brook  Kedron,  past  the  tomb  of
Absalom,  to  the  Pool  of  Siloam,  a  rapid  fall  of  between
300  and  400  feet  within  a  mile  and  a  half ;  thence  up  the
Valley  of  Hinnom,  past  the  Jaffa  Gate  to  the  Damascus
Gate,  where  we  entered  as  on  our  first  approach  to  the  city.
