CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

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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. 29

Naples - Annunciation - Ascent of Mount Vesuvius - Monkish

Miracles - The Stranger and the Hackman-Night View of

Naples from Mountain - Ascent of Vesuvius Continued

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CHAPTER III. 50

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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. 31

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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

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CHAPTER V. 3a

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. 33

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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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Modern Greece-The Archipelago and the Dardanelles - Foot-

prints of History-Constantinople-Great Mosque -The

Thousand and One Columns - Grand Bazaar of Stamboul · 75

CHAPTER VII. 34

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CHAPTER VIII. 35

Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea-"Far-Away Moses "

- Melancholy Sebastopol - Hospitably Received in Russia-

Relic Hunting -- How Travelers Form "Cabinets "

CHAPTER IX. 3

Nine Thousand Miles East-Imitation American Town in Russia

- Gratitude that Came Too Late-To Visit the Autocrat of

All the Russias

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CHAPTER X. 37

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

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CHAPTER XII. 3^

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. 40

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CHAPTER XI. 32

Return to Constantinople-The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Vis-

itors-Ancient Smyrna - The "Oriental Splendor” Fraud ·

Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans-Sociable Armenian Girls

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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

CHAPTER XV.42

"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

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CHAPTER XVI. 43

Patriarchal Customs Magnificent Baalbec

Scribbling Smiths and Joneses Pilgrim Fidelity to the

Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Balaam's Ass 188

Description of Ruins

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CHAPTER XVII. 44

Extracts from Note-Book-- Mahomet's Paradise Beautiful Da-

mascus―The "Street called Straight"-The Christian Mas-

-The House of Naaman - The Horrors of Leprosy

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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 212

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CHAPTER XIX. 6

Dan-Bashan-Gennesaret

Scraps of History-Character of

the Country-Bedouin Shepherds-Mr. Grimes' Bedouins-

A Battleground of Joshua - Barak's Battle-Desolation

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CHAPTER XX. t า

Jack's Adventure-The Story of Joseph-The Sacred Lake of

Gennesaret-Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims-Why We Did not

Sail on Galilee-Capernaum-Journeying toward Magdala

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CHAPTER XXI. ✅ S

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

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CHAPTER XXII.+

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

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CHAPTER XXIII. 50

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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. S

The Boyhood of the Saviour - Home of the Witch of Endor-

Nain--The "Free Son of the Desert " Ancient Jezreel-

Jehu's Achievements - Samaria and its Famous Siege

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