The pilgrims took down portions of the front wall for specimens, as is their honored custom, and then we departed.
We are camped in this place, now, just within the city walls of Tiberias.
We went into the town before nightfall and looked at its people--we cared nothing about its houses.

Its people are best examined at a distance.
They are particularly uncomely Jews, Arabs, and negroes.

Squalor and poverty are the pride of Tiberias.

The young women wear their dower strung upon a strong wire that curves downward from the top of the head to the jaw--Turkish silver coins which they have raked together or inherited.

Most of these maidens were not wealthy, but some few had been very kindly dealt with by fortune.