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CHAPTER XLIV.
Extracts from Note-Book--Mahomet's Paradise and the Bible's--Beautiful Damascus the
Oldest City on Earth--Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old City--Damascus Street
Car--The Story of St. Paul--The "Street called Straight"--Mahomet's Tomb and St.
George's--The Christian Massacre-- Mohammedan Dread of Pollution--The House of
Naaman-- The Horrors of Leprosy

CHAPTER XLV.
The Cholera by way of Variety--Hot--Another Outlandish Procession--Pen and-Ink
Photograph of "Jonesborough," Syria--Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter--The
Stateliest Ruin of All--Stepping over the Borders of Holy- Land--Bathing in the Sources
of Jordan--More "Specimen" Hunting--Ruins of Cesarea--Philippi--"On This Rock Will I
Build my Church"--The People the Disciples Knew--The Noble Steed
"Baalbec"--Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs

CHAPTER XLVI.
Dan--Bashan--Genessaret--A Notable Panorama--Smallness of Palestine-- Scraps of
History--Character of the Country--Bedouin Shepherds--Glimpses of the Hoary Past--Mr.
Grimes's Bedouins--A Battle--Ground of Joshua-- That Soldier's Manner of
Fighting--Barak's Battle--The Necessity of Unlearning Some Things--Desolation

CHAPTER XLVII.
"Jack's Adventure"--Joseph's Pit--The Story of Joseph--Joseph's Magnanimity and
Esau's--The Sacred Lake of Genessaret--Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims--Why We did not
Sail on Galilee--About Capernaum--Concerning the Saviour's Brothers and
Sisters--Journeying toward Magdela

CHAPTER XLVIII.
Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture--Public Reception of the Pilgrims--Mary
Magdalen's House--Tiberias and its Queer Inhabitants-- The Sacred Sea of
Galilee--Galilee by Night

CHAPTER XLIX.
The Ancient Baths--Ye Apparition--A Distinguished Panorama--The Last Battle of the
Crusades--The Story of the Lord of Kerak--Mount Tabor-- What one Sees from its
Top--Memory of a Wonderful Garden--The House of Deborah the Prophetess

CHAPTER L.

Toward Nazareth--Bitten By a Camel--Grotto of the Annunciation, Nazareth --Noted
Grottoes in General--Joseph's Workshop--A Sacred Bowlder-- The Fountain of the
Virgin--Questionable Female Beauty-- Literary Curiosities

CHAPTER LI.
Boyhood of the Saviour--Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims--Home of the Witch of
Endor--Nain--Profanation--A Popular Oriental Picture--Biblical Metaphors Becoming
steadily More Intelligible--The Shuuem Miracle-- The "Free Son of The Desert"--Ancient
Jezrael--Jehu's Achievements-- Samaria and its Famous Siege

CHAPTER LII
Curious Remnant of the Past--Shechem--The Oldest "First Family" on Earth --The Oldest
Manuscript Extant--The Genuine Tomb of Joseph--Jacob's Well --Shiloh--Camping with
the Arabs--Jacob's Ladder--More Desolation-- Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The
Fountain of Beira--Impatience-- Approaching Jerusalem--The Holy City in Sight--Noting
Its Prominent Features--Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls

CHAPTER LIII.
"The Joy of the Whole Earth"--Description of Jerusalem--Church of the Holy
Sepulchre--The Stone of Unction--The Grave of Jesus--Graves of Nicodemus and Joseph
of Armattea--Places of the Apparition--The Finding of the There Crosses----The
Legend--Monkish Impostures--The Pillar of Flagellation--The Place of a
Relic--Godfrey's Sword--"The Bonds of Christ"--"The Center of the Earth"--Place
whence the Dust was taken of which Adam was Made--Grave of Adam--The Martyred
Soldier--The Copper Plate that was on the Cross--The Good St. Helena--Place of the
Division of the Garments--St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief--The Late Emperor Maximilian's
Contribution--Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the Nails, and the Crown of
Thorns--Chapel of the Mocking--Tomb of Melchizedek--Graves of Two Renowned
Crusaders--The Place of the Crucifixion

CHAPTER LIV.
The "Sorrowful Way"--The Legend of St. Veronica's Handkerchief-- An Illustrious
Stone--House of the Wandering Jew--The Tradition of the Wanderer--Solomon's
Temple--Mosque of Omar--Moslem Traditions--"Women not Admitted"--The Fate of a
Gossip--Turkish Sacred Relics--Judgment Seat of David and Saul--Genuine Precious

Remains of Solomon's Temple--Surfeited with Sights--The Pool of Siloam--The Garden
of Gethsemane and Other Sacred Localities

CHAPTER LV.
Rebellion in the Camp--Charms of Nomadic Life--Dismal Rumors--En Route for Jericho
and The Dead Sea--Pilgrim Strategy--Bethany and the Dwelling of
Lazarus--"Bedouins!"--Ancient Jericho--Misery--The Night March-- The Dead Sea--An
Idea of What a "Wilderness" in Palestine is--The Holy hermits of Mars Saba--Good St.
Saba--Women not Admitted--Buried from the World for all Time--Unselfish Catholic
Benevolence--Gazelles--The Plain of the Shepherds--Birthplace of the Saviour,
Bethlehem--Church of the Nativity--Its Hundred Holy Places--The Famous "Milk"
Grotto--Tradition-- Return to Jerusalem--Exhausted

CHAPTER LVI.
Departure from Jerusalem--Samson--The Plain of Sharon--Arrival at Joppa-- Horse of
Simon the Tanner--The Long Pilgrimage Ended--Character of Palestine Scenery--The
Curse

CHAPTER LVII.
The Happiness of being at Sea once more--"Home" as it is in a Pleasure Ship--"Shaking
Hands" with the Vessel--Jack in Costume--His Father's Parting Advice--Approaching
Egypt--Ashore in Alexandria--A Deserved Compliment for the Donkeys--Invasion of the
Lost Tribes of America--End of the Celebrated "Jaffa Colony"--Scenes in Grand
Cairo--Shepheard's Hotel Contrasted with a Certain American Hotel--Preparing for the
Pyramids

CHAPTER LVIII.
"Recherche" Donkeys--A Wild Ride--Specimens of Egyptian Modesty--Moses in the
Bulrushes--Place where the Holy Family Sojourned--Distant view of the Pyramids--A
Nearer View--The Ascent--Superb View from the top of the Pyramid--"Backsheesh!
Backsheesh!"--An Arab Exploit--In the Bowels of the Pyramid--Strategy--Reminiscence
of "Holiday's Hill"--Boyish Exploit--The Majestic Sphynx--Things the Author will not
Tell--Grand Old Egypt

CHAPTER LIX.
Going Home--A Demoralized Note-Book--A Boy's Diary--Mere Mention of Old
Spain--Departure from Cadiz--A Deserved Rebuke--The Beautiful Madeiras
--Tabooed--In the Delightful Bermudas--An English Welcome--Good-by to "Our Friends
the Bermudians"--Packing Trunks for Home--Our First Accident--The Long Cruise
Drawing to a Close--At Home--Amen

CHAPTER LX.
Thankless Devotion--A Newspaper Valedictory--Conclusion

PREFACE
This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific