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[page 183, Greek] “Yesterday at lunch I drank a whole bottle of Port wine to ease
my stomach a bit which kept aching, probably due to the amount of oranges I
consumed at Jaffa.”
From Jerusalem he travels on to Petra (Fig. 3). He describes this stop extensively
and makes ten sketches (Fig. 4):
[page 191, English] “After breakfast I went with my companions through the large
ravine to the “Kasne”, which is the most splendid building in the place. On both
sides of the ravine the rocks to a considerable height are full of tombs of all pos-
sible dimensions. On the right is a theatre cut into the rock and large enough to
Fig. 4 – Sketches of Petra by Schliemann