IN the winter and spring of 1875 the writer made the tour of Egypt and the Levant. The first portion of the journey is described in a volume published last summer, entitled "My Winter on the Nile, among Mummies and Moslems"; the second in the following pages.
PREFACE
IN the winter and spring of 1875 the writer made the tour of Egypt and the Levant. The first portion of the journey is described in a volume published last summer, entitled "My Winter on the Nile, among Mummies and Moslems"; the second in the following pages. The notes of the journey were taken and the books were written before there were any signs of the present Oriental disturbances, and the observations made are therefore uncolored by any expectation of the existing state of affairs.
Signs enough were visible of a transition period, extraordinary but hopeful; with the existence of poverty, oppression, superstition, and ignorance were mingling Occidental and Christian influences, the faint beginnings of a revival of learning and the stronger pulsations of awakening commercial and industrial life. The best hope of this revival was their, as it is now, in peace and not in war.C. D. W.Hartford, November 10,1876.
PREFACE
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I.-FROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM
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II.-JERUSALEM
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III.-HOLY PLACES OP THE HOLY CITY
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IV.-NEIGHBORHOODS OF JERUSALEM
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V.-GOING DOWN TO JERICHO
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VI.-BETHLEHEM AND MAR SABA
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VII.-THE FAIR OF MOSES; THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH
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VIII.-DEPARTURE FROM JERUSALEM
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IX.-ALONG THE SYRIAN COAST
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X.-BEYROUT.-OVER THE LEBANON
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XI.-BA'ALBEK
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XII.-ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
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XIII.-THE OLDEST OF CITIES
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XIV.-OTHER SIGHTS IN DAMASCUS
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XV.-SOME PRIVATE HOUSES
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XVI.-SOME SPECIMEN TRAVELLERS
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XVII.-INTO DAYLIGHT AGAIN.-AN EPISODE OF TURKISH JUSTICE
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XVIII.-CYPRUS
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XIX.-THROUGH SUMMER SEAS.-RHODES
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