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As bound for Joppa (or Jaffa, as it is called now). 'But the wind rising
against us,' Robinson says in his narrative, 'we came to an anchor and
the next morning divers Turks came aboard, and demanded tribute of those
called Christians in the vessel, which they paid for fear of sufferings
but very unwillingly, their demands being very unreasonable, and in like
manner demanded of me, but I refusing to pay as according to their
demands, they threatened to beat the soles of my feet with a stick, and
one of them would have put his hand into my pocket, but the chiefest of
them rebuked him. Soon after they began to take me out of the vessel to
effect their work, but one of the Turks belonging to the vessel speaking
to them as they were taking me ashore, they let me alone, wherein I saw
the good Hand of God preserving me.... After this, about three or four
days we came to Joppa.' And there at Joppa (or Jaffa), where Jonah long
ago had embarked for Tarshish, and where Peter on the house-top had had
his vision of the great white sheet, our traveller landed. He proceeded
straightway on what he hoped would have been the last stage of his long
journey to Jerusalem. Alas! he was mistaken. A few pleasant hours of
travel he had, as he passed through the palm-groves that encircle the
city of Jaffa, and over the first few miles of dusty road that cross t