Fri 27. [27 January 1905] Hoarfrost on the ground. Headache and
fever, rather a poor thing. Jenin is a most charming place as I saw it
from the outside but I was too slack to go in. We rode through the hills,
very delicious, and then on the plain of {Akkab} Arrabeh, muddy and
tedious. And then up into hills again. High perched villages - Er
Ramel and others. Here I cd bear it no longer and went to sleep for
an hour on the hillside. Most beautiful bit of country after, round a
great valley full of olives with the sea on one side and Hermon
[Sheikh, Jebel esh] on the other. At Sebastiyeh [Sabastiya] I was so
bad that I decided to go no further. Put up at the mosque in a room
made out of a bay in the Crusader church. The Imam, Sheikh Sadik,
made me welcome. Dropped onto a bed and went to sleep. Sheikh
Sadik waited on me in a long blue coat and a white turban. He was a
most charming man.