A Galileean Village

In one ot the most remóte and secluded valleys in the inountains of northeru Galilee lies a village, the small population of which possesses an interest altogether unique. As 1 look'ed down upun it trom the precipitóla and dangerous patli by üieaus of which I was skirting the flank of the mountain, I thought 1 had ravely seen a spet of su ch ideal beauty II was sn oasis - not actually in a dessert, for thcroeky moHntain ranges were eovercd whh wild lui bagt: - tut iii r savagi wilder ncss of désotation, in themidat of which the villaje ncsiled in a fofest of orange, almond.fijr, auú pomegran ate trees Uic liny rilis of water b}? which ihey weie irrfgated glisteniDg liko eilvèr ihreads in the -unlight. aml tli; yellow crops bejonil contratting wiih the dnll green of t o hill veniure long depvived of water, and Che gray rocía wbich reared their cragg7 pinnaclea above it. The uanie of tbe villaje was Bukeia. 1 had bcard vaguely of the uxisiem'e of a spot in Galllfce whcre a commuuity of Jews lived who olaimed to be the deseendants of families who had tilled the land ia this same loealily prior lo the (iestruci'ou of Jerusaknn and the subsequünt dispersión of the rf.oe; aml as it had never been suöpccted that any retnnant of the ñation had üluifg to tllï soilof thcir father from time inunemorial. and as it oertain that thig is the only remnant tiiat has 1 look some trouble . to ascertain the name of the village, aüd feit that it was worth a pílgrirnage to visit it. Altbough hii.hcrto unknown to ourepeans aml tourisfs, it has besn for manyyears :mu:li frequented by the Jews of Safed and Tiberias, and this s-nirinier, especial Ir, when the cholera panic prevailed in tlie Countrv, lliure was a perfect rii.-h of the wealllfier Jews and rabbis of those towns to iis puro air and bracios c.limate. In a wuali way it is a 6ort oí Jewish Sanitarium.