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198 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,roade by her abusing the prophet; which being told to tliePasha of Acri, an order came for the Greek to be deliveredto the Turkish soldiers; who, after having subjected her toevery indignity, put her to death.I have not much reason to respect any of the nativeinhabitants of Nazareth, whose manners denoted a barbarityand mdeness greater than I had expected. I attempted to makesketches ; but was so beset by the Greeks and Mahometans,that I was fain to make a precipitate retreat to the convent,where I was recommended to abstain from drawing again.The opprobrious epithets. Giaour and Franky Cocu, wereapplied to me in every direction; and I had more than onceto shelter myself from a shower of stones. I contented myselfwith seeing the holy places, which are as doubtfullymarked out here as at Jerusalem, though with seeming confidence.I could not help being shocked, when taken byone of the Latin monks to the site of the shop kept byJoseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, where our Saviouris supp08€id to have been employed in selling the articlesmade by that person.A chapel stands on this place; as also anotiier on the siteof that where stood the Synagogue, in which Jesus explainedthe prophecy of Isaiah relating to himself*.* St Ltike, chap, iv. ver. 17, 18, and ft^owii^.ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ/