we can cast down rocks upon them; where
there are crags which we can climb, but up which their heavy-armed
soldiers cannot follow us. This is our first task for, as yet, they
have not commenced the siege of Gamala. When they do so, we must
draw down near them and hide ourselves, mark the position of their
camp, see how their tents are arranged, and where their sentries
are placed.

"Then we can begin work: sometimes falling upon their guards; at
other times creeping in past their sentries, scattering through the
camp and, at a given signal, firing their tents with the brands
from their fires; slaying those who first rush out, and then making
off again to the hills.

"Then, too, they will be sending great numbers of men up the hills,
to cut timber and branches for their embankments, their
breastworks, and the construction of the wattles to protect their
machines. We shall be in hiding and, when a party of men separates
from the rest, we will fall upon these; we will harass their
workers from a distance, always avoiding a regular combat, but
hindering their work, and wearing them out. Thus we may do better
service, to the defenders of Gamala, than if we were within the
walls.

"At present we have only swords, but we must get bows and arrows.
It would not have been safe to have carried them across the plains;
but we can procure them at Abila, or Jabez Galaad. I fear that we
shall not be able to interfere with the provisioning of the
army--for upon the plains we shall have no chance with their
cavalry--but, here in these mountains, stretching away over Peraea
into Arabia and Moab, we can laugh at pursuit by the Romans; and
even Agrippa's light-armed Arabs will have difficulty in following
us, and of them we need have little fear. At Jotapata we proved
ourselves a match for the Romans; and their light-armed troops will
not care to venture against us, alone, as they will not know our
numbers, and will fear being led into ambushes.

"There is one question which we have to consider, and that is food;
as to flesh, we shall have it in abundance. There will be many
flocks of goats, belonging to those in Gamala, straying among the
mountains without an owner; therefore of goats' milk and flesh we
can take abundance, but there will be a scarcity of grain. I have
some money with me, with which we can purchase it at Abila, and the
villages. As for Jabez Galaad, it is too close to Gamala; and the
Romans will probably ascend the