Daberath The Memoirs (1:363) accompanying the Ordnance Map of Western Palestine contain the following additional notice of this place: "Deburieh — a small village built of stone, with inhabited caves; contains about two hundred Moslems, and is surrounded by gardens of figs and olives. It is situated on the slope of the hill. Water is obtained from cisterns in the village." "It has several Protestant families, the fruits of the English Church mission" (Tristram, Bible Places, page 235).
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