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CONTENTS
137 0625 1899
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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.
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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.
Modern Greece-The Archipelago and the Dardanelles — Foot-
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
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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
All the Russias
CHAPTER X.
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
cence-Fragments of History-Legend of Seven Sleepers
The "Shrill Note of Preparation"
The "Long Route " Adopted-In Syria-Something about
Beirout-Outfits- Hideous Horseflesh- Pilgrim "Style". 169
CHAPTER XV.
"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.
Patriarchal Customs - Magnificent Baalbec― Description of Ruins
Scribbling Smiths and Joneses
Pilgrim Fidelity to the
Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Balaam's Ass 188
CHAPTER XVII.
Extracts from Note-Book-Mahomet's Paradise - Beautiful Da-
mascus -The "Street called Straight”—The Christian Mas-
sacre- The House of Naaman-The Horrors of Leprosy
CHAPTER XVIII.
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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.
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Dan-Bashan-Gennesaret-Scraps of History-Character of
the Country-Bedouin Shepherds- Mr. Grimes' Bedouins
A Battleground of Joshua — Barak's Battle-Desolation
CHAPTER XX.
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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
Public Reception of
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the Pilgrims- Mary Magdalen's House-Tiberias and its
Inhabitants-The Sacred Sea of Galilee-Galilee by Night 260
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
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-
Jehu's Achievements - Samaria and its Famous Siege
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