Our boy Sam was often careless with stated numbers, ages,  dates, times.

On 7/10/2020 3:06 PM, scott wrote:
> The first two days of Mark Twain's Long Trip through Syria have me a
> bit confused.  They report departing Beirut on Wednesday at 3pm and
> camping at Temnin al Faouqa by 6pm.  That's a journey of 36 miles.
> Fears has the first camp a mere 10 miles from Beirut, likely at
> Broumanna.  This require a second day journey to Zahlah, near Temnin al
> Faouqa, of 24 miles.  Then, an additonal 21.3 miles to Baalbek.
>
> If we have the pilgrims journey from Beirut to Temnin al Faouqa on the
> first day, that journey would be 36 miles and likely require more than
> 3 hours to do it in (3 pm to 6 pm? - not likely)
>
> If we have the pilgrims camp just ten miles from Beirut on the first
> night, they would need to travel 45 miles on the second day.  Again,
> not likely.
>
> The party needs to be at Baalbek by Thursday in order to make sense of
> the need to compress the three day required to reach Damascus into two
> days (Friday and Saturday) in order for the pilgrims to "keep the
> Sabbath".
>
> https://twainsgeography.com/content/innocents-journey-through-holy-land