https://quintbooks.com/tag/nimrod/Recent content in Nimrod on Quint BooksHugoenThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://quintbooks.com/2024/05/23/el-yuba-dam/Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://quintbooks.com/2024/05/23/el-yuba-dam/<p>In Chapter 45 of <em>The Innocents Abroad</em>, Mark Twain writes about traveling from Damascus to Kafr Hawr (which he calls Jonesborough), and then continuing on the following day to Banias. Twain wrote:</p> <blockquote> <p>“We left Jonesborough very early in the morning, and rode forever and forever and forever, it seemed to me, over parched deserts and rocky hills, hungry, and with no water to drink. At noon we halted before the wretched town of El Yuba Dam, perched on a side of a mountain, but the dragoman said if we applied there for water we would be attacked by the whole tribe, for they did not love Christians. We had to journey on.”</p>