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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
The Capuchin Convent - A Festive Company of the Dead - The Great Vatican Museum - Papal Protection of Art-Scale of Rank of the Holy Personages in Rome.
CHAPTER II.
Naples - Annunciation - Ascent of Mount Vesuvius - Monkish
Miracles The Stranger and the Hackman-Night View of
Naples from Mountain - Ascent of Vesuvius Continued
CHAPTER III.
Ascent of Vesuvius Continued - Celebrated Localities in the Bay of
Naples - Petrified Sea of Lava-The Ascent Continued-
The Summit Reached - The Crater - Descent of Vesuvius
CHAPTER IV.
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The Buried City of Pompeii- The Judgment Seat Desolation
Footprints of the Departed-Skeletons Preserved by the Ashes
— The Brave Martyr to Duty — The Perishable Nature of Fame 43
CHAPTER V.
Stromboli - Sicily by Moonlight-Skirting the Isles of Greece-
Athens - The Acropolis-Among the Glories of the Past
A World of Ruined Sculpture-Famous Localities.
CHAPTER VI.
Modern Greece -The Archipelago and the Dardanelles
prints of History - Constantinople-Great Mosque - The
Thousand and One Columns - Grand Bazaar of Stamboul.
CHAPTER VII.
Scarcity of Morals and Whisky - Slave-Girl Market Report—
The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople - No More Turkish
Lunches Desired - The Turkish Bath Fraud .
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CHAPTER VIII.
Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea-"Far-Away Moses"
Melancholy Sebastopol - Hospitably Received in Russia
Relic Hunting -- How Travelers Form "Cabinets"
CHAPTER IX.
Nine Thousand Miles East-Imitation American Town in Russia
Gratitude that Came Too Late-To Visit the Autocrat of
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Summer Home of Royalty - Reception by the Emperor At the
Grand Duke's-A Charming Villa - The Governor-General's
Visit to the Ship - Aristocratic Visitors
CHAPTER XI.
Return to Constantinople—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Vis-
itors - Ancient Smyrna - The "Oriental Splendor" Fraud-
Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans-Sociable Armenian Girls
CHAPTER XII.
Smyrna's Lions-The Martyr Polycarp―The "Seven Churches"
Remains of the Six Smyrnas
- Mysterious Oyster Mine-
A Millerite Tradition- A Railroad Out of its Sphere
CHAPTER XIII.
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Journeying toward Ancient Ephesus-Ancient Ayassalook-The
Villainous Donkey -- Fantastic Procession - Bygone Magnifi-
cence - Fragments of History - Legend of Seven Sleepers
CHAPTER XIV.
Approaching Holy Land! - The "Shrill Note of Preparation
The "Long Route " Adopted-In Syria-Something about
Beirout - Outfits- Hideous Horseflesh- Pilgrim "Style". 169
"Jacksonville,” in the Mountains of Lebanon - The Peculiar
Steed, "Jericho -The Pilgrim's Progress - Bible Scenes,
Mount Hermon, Joshua's Battlefields, etc.—Tomb of Noah
Patriarchal Customs-Magnificent Baalbec - Description of Ruins
Scribbling Smiths and Joneses Pilgrim Fidelity to the
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Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Balaam's Ass. 188
CHAPTER XVII.
Extracts from Note-Book-Mahomet's Paradise- Beautiful Da-
-The "Street called Straight"-The Christian Mas-
sacre- The House of Naaman - The Horrors of Leprosy
mascus
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Cholera-Hot- Tomb of Nimrod -- The Stateliest Ruin of All-
More "Specimen " Hunting - Cesarea-Philippi― People the
Disciples Knew-Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs
CHAPTER XIX.
Dan-Bashan - Gennesaret
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Scraps of History-Character of
the Country - Bedouin Shepherds— Mr. Grimes' Bedouins A Battleground of Joshua-Barak's Battle-Desolation
Jack's Adventure
CHAPTER XX.
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The Story of Joseph-The Sacred Lake of
Gennesaret-Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims - Why We Did not
Sail on Galilee-Capernaum-Journeying toward Magdala
CHAPTER XXI.
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Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture— Public Reception of
the Pilgrims-Mary Magdalen's House - Tiberias and its
Inhabitants-The Sacred Sea of Galilee-Galilee by Night 260
The Ancient Baths-The Last Battle of the Crusades - Mount
Tabor-What one Sees from its Top-A Memory of a Won-
derful Garden - The House of Deborah the Prophetess
Toward Nazareth-
Bitten by a Camel - Grotto of the Annuncia-
tion, Nazareth-Joseph's Workshop-A Sacred Bowlder
The Fountain of the Virgin— Literary Curiosities
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Boyhood of the Saviour Home of the Witch of Endor-
Nain--The "Free Son of the Desert "- Ancient Jezreel-