We passed a herd of camels belonging to the Turkomans, walking unburdened, whereas all other animals that we met were laden with grain for the port of Caiffa. At the commencement of the ascent on the opposite hills we rested under the _Tell el Hharatheeyeh_, beneath a noble tree of the evergreen oak; and near there we passed alongside of a camp of degraded Arabs called _Beramki_, in a few tattered tents, but they had some capital horses picketed around them. The villagers regard these people with ineffable disdain, as "cousins of the gipsies." It seems that they subsist by singing songs among real Arab camps, and by letting out their horses as stallions for breeding, with variations of picking and stealing. We saw some of their women and children, filthy in person, painfully employed in scraping away the ground wherever black clay showed itself, in the hope of reaching water, however bad in quality. There was threshing at _Jaida_ as we passed that village. We halted at the spring of _Samooniah_, and at _Ma'alool_; the priest of the village was superintending the parish threshing: his reverence was covered with dust from the operation. 4. CAIFFA TO SHEFA 'AMER. _June_ 1859. From _Beled esh Shaikh_ and _Yajoor_, across the Kishon channel, upon the plain of Acre, and rested a short time at the _Weli of Jedro_, (very like a Hebrew name,) and then near us, all close together were the three villages of _Cuf'r Ita_, _Ja'arah_ and _Hurbaj_. Thence to Shefa 'Amer, first diverging somewhat to _'Ebeleen_. III. SOUTH SIDE OF ESDRAELON. 1. PLAIN OF SHARON TO CAIFFA. _Oct._ 1849. At _Baka_ we leave the plain of Sharon, at its northern end, if indeed the extensive level from the Egyptian desert up to this point, may come under this one denomination; and we enter upon the hilly woodlands of Ephraim and Manasseh, so clearly described in Joshua xvii. 11, 17, 18. In mounting to the higher ground, there is obtained a fine view of the sea, and the oak and karoobah trees were larger as we advanced; from certain stations we obtained a totally unexpected prospect of a stretch of large forest scenery below us, extending towards _Sindianeh_ in the west. At one spot we passed among scattered stones of excellent masonry, large and rabbeted at the edges, lying confusedly about, enough for a small town, but evidently belonging to a period of ancient date; a few mud huts were adjoining these. Thence we descended into a long valley, several miles in extent, called _Wadi 'Arah_, fully occupied with cotton crops, and stubble of the last harvest of grain. The valley was bounded on either side by well timbered hills, and its direction was N.E. by E.