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

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Miracles The Stranger and the Hackman-Night View of

Naples from Mountain - Ascent of Vesuvius Continued

CHAPTER III.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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 "

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- Melancholy Sebastopol - Hospitably Received in Russia-

Relic Hunting-How Travelers Form "Cabinets "

CHAPTER IX.

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Nine Thousand Miles East-Imitation American Town in Russia

Gratitude that Came Too Late- To Visit the Autocrat of

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 XI.

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Return to Constantinople—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Vis-

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

Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans-Sociable Armenian Girls

CHAPTER XII.

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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

Journeying toward Ancient Ephesus-Ancient Ayassalook-The

Villainous Donkey-Fantastic Procession - Bygone Magnifi-

- Fragments of History — Legend of Seven Sleepers

Approaching Holy Land! The "Shrill Note of Preparation

The "Long Route " Adopted-In Syria-Something about

Beirout-Outfits-Hideous Horseflesh- Pilgrim "Style". 169

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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

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

Extracts from Note-Book

mascus

CHAPTER XVII.

- Mahomet's Paradise - Beautiful Da-

The "Street called Straight"—The Christian Mas-

sacre- The House of Naaman -The Horrors of Leprosy

Cholera-Hot

CHAPTER XVIII.

Tomb of Nimrod -- The Stateliest Ruin of All-

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More "Specimen " Hunting - Cesarea-Philippi― People the

Disciples Knew Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs

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CHAPTER XIX.

Dan-Bashan - Gennesaret Scraps of History

the Country-Bedouin Shepherds- Mr. Grimes' Bedouins -
A Battleground of Joshua-Barak's Battle-Desolation

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.

Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture-Public Reception of

the Pilgrims Mary Magdalen's House

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Tiberias and its

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Inhabitants-The Sacred Sea of Galilee-Galilee by Night. 260

Tabor- What one Sees from its Top-A Memory of a Won-

derful Garden - The House of Deborah the Prophetess

tion, Nazareth-Joseph's Workshop-A Sacred Bowlder-

The Fountain of the Virgin-Literary Curiosities

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

CHAPTER XXV.

Shechem-The Tomb of Joseph-Jacob's Well - Shiloh — Ja-

Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, the

cob's Ladder

Fountain of Beira - Within the Walls of Jerusalem

CHAPTER XXVI.

Description of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulchre - The

Grave of Jesus Monkish Impostures-Grave of Adam-

Tomb of Melchizedek - The Place of the Crucifixion

CHAPTER XXVII.

The "Sorrowful Way'

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- Solomon's Temple - Mosque of Omar

- Judgment Seat of David and Saul- The Pool of Siloam-

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

Bethany" Bedouins! ” — Ancient Jericho — The Dead Sea-

The Holy Hermits Gazelles - Birthplace of the Saviour,

Bethlehem - Church of the Nativity — Return to Jerusalem

Departure from Jerusalem-Samson-The Plain of Sharon -

Joppa- House of Simon the Tanner -The Long Pilgrimage

Ended-Character of Palestine Scenery - The Curse

"Home" in a Pleasure-ship-Jack in Costume - His Father's
Parting Advice - Egypt In Alexandria Scenes in Grand

CHAPTER XXXI.

“Recherché" Donkeys - Egyptian Modesty - Moses in the Bul-

rushes Place where Holy Family Sojourned-The Pyramids

"Backsheesh!"- Majestic Sphynx - Grand Old Egypt

CHAPTER XXXII.

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Homeward Bound A Demoralized Note-book-Old Spain-

Cadiz - Beautiful Madeiras - Delightful Bermudas — An Eng-

lish Welcome - Our First Accident - At Home Amen

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