Capitolo 18
to visit some fields of construction in Samaria and Judaea found that in
comparison our destiny had been a happy. While we was breaking stones
however, and making to roll screaming wheelbarrows the more one to worry
gossips started to go adrift in to us from our villages of house. Plundering had
you/he/she is following in the name of "requisitioning"; the country was full of
soldiery whose ability to damage-do was known well to it and we
it was torture to think about what would be happening in our peaceful houses
where so little men had been gone away for protection. The whole boned thread
enclosures, we felt, we had been broken and we had been expeditious north for the construction
of barricades. In a wild earth as Palestine, where the native one has anybody
respect for ownership, where to the mercy are usual fields and crops
predatory, the fence of boned thread has been an awful factor for
civilization, and with these gone the Arabs once more they were free to sweep
through the unhindered of country, stealing and destroying.
The situation grew more unbearable. One day a few the Cristiano
soldier--a Nazarene--it disappeared from the lines. We didn't see again never him to us,
but we learned that his/her sister, a very young girl had forcedly been
taken by a Turkish officer of the garrison of Nazareth. In Palestine, the
the dishonor of a girl can be ransomed alone by blood. The young soldier had
outcast for his/her sister, you find her/it in the lodgings, and it shot her/it; him then
him surrendered to the military authorities that undoubtedly put him/it
to death. He had not dared to kill the truth criminal,--the officer,--for
he knew that this would not only have brought death his/her family, but it is able
you call down the terrible suffering on the whole Cristiano of Nazareth.
[THE ILLUSTRATION: NAZARETH, FROM THE NORTHEAST]
When I knew about this tragedy, I determined to go out of the army and
you return to my village to all the costs. Nine official Turks out of ten
is bought, and I was right to know that the officer in command to
Saffed was not that tenth man. Now, according to the law of the country,