Fri. 16 [16 March 1900] The Dixon [i.e. Dickson] children came round
in the morning to show me a horse. I found it precious difficult to work
with holidays so near. The end of the Purim festival is that after the
service they go home and get so drunk that they don't know the
difference between Blessed is Mordecai and Cursed is Hamam. I
rode with the Dicksons in the afternoon, down to Kolonia and half way
across to Ain Karim and home by a new way from Ain [space left
blank] where Mr D. showed me the remains of a Roman bridge and a
Canaanite fort up on the hill. A very nice German cleric and his wife
dined and two sisters. Pouring night.