Crossword-Solution: SUKKOT 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

This is Sukkot, as they call it, and while it lasts, they do none of the king's service, for, they maintain, all work is forbidden them on these days.

The rapids render navigation impossible between here and Sukkot, a distance of a hundred miles, and the river is hemmed in sometimes by high banks, as at Mershed, where I could throw a stone over to the opposite side.

Had it not been for the arrival of the nephew of the governor of Sukkot, the threat would in all probability have been carried into execution.

From thence in three days more Sukkot, in travelling along the mountainous district called Batn el Hadjar.

This became a matter of serious reflection with the Kashef; and he at last addressed me in the following terms: “Whoever you may be, whether an Englishman, like the two other persons who passed here, or an agent of the Pasha, I shall not send you back unsatisfied: you may proceed; but, farther than Sukkot the road is not safe for you; and from thence, therefore, you will return.” I requested a letter of recommendation for Sukkot, which was immediately written, and a Bedouin guide also was soon found.