a funeral the like of which Haifa, nay Palestine itself, had surely never seen ...

so deep was the feeling that brought so many thousands of mourners together, representative of so many religions, races and tongues.
The High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, the Governor or Jerusalem, the Governor of Phoenicia, the Chief Officials of the Government, the Consuls of the various countries, resident in Haifa, the heads of the various religious communities, the notables of Palestine, Jews, Christians, Moslems, Druses, Egyptians, Greeks, Turks, Kurds, and a host of his American, European and native friends, men, women and children, both of high and low degree ...

all, about ten thousand in number, mourning the loss of their Beloved One....
"O God, my God!" the people wailed with one accord, "Our father has left us, our father has left us!" ...

they slowly wended their way up Mount Carmel, the Vineyard of God....

After two hours' walking, they reached the garden of the Tomb of the Bab....