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INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Departure from Leghorn.
Pompeii.-Sicily.-Stromboli.-Malta.-Costume of
Women. Historical Sketch. Cathedral.
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Cru-
sades.-Library of the Knights.-English Church.—
Dragoman
CHAPTER II.
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Malta to Alexandria.-Fellow-passengers.-Jew versus
Capuchin.-First Sight of Egypt.-Scene on Land-
Hotel. - Modern Alexandria. Cleopatra's
Needle.-Palace of the Pasha .
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CHAPTER III.
Train to Cairo.-Fulfilled Prophecies.-Heliopolis.---
Shepherd's Hotel.-Marriage Procession.-Donkey
Excursion. Mosque of Sultan Hassan.-Constancy
of the Mussulman's Devotion. -Mehemet Ali's Tomb.
-Mehemet Ali. Present Facilities of Travel.-
Pasha's Palace
Coptic
Bazaars of Cairo. - Bible Customs. - Shopping Ad-
venture. British Chaplain and Wife.
School. Living in a Tomb.-Early Egyptians not
Idolaters.-Wretchedness of the People.
CHAPTER V.
Boulak.-Belzoni.-Nile Boat.-Crew.-Dragoman.-
Exterior and Interior Life.—Aground.-Nile Salutes.
-Walk on Shore.-Water Wheels.-The Ethiopian
Slave.-First Crocodile.
CHAPTER VI.
Palm Groves.-Sheikh-Heredee.-An Arab Village.-
Mud Houses.-Absence of Flowers .
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CHAPTER VII.
Old Nilus.-Prophecies.-The Bible the Guide-Book.-
Scenery. Osioot.-Tombs.-The Coptic Christian.
-Night Skies.-The Sabean and Chaldean
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CHAPTER VIII.
Thebes. Luxor. Mr. Mustafa Aga. Karnac.-
Moonlight Visit.-The Prophets
CHAPTER IX.
Songs of the Arabs.-The Gawazee.
Philoe.-Temple of Isis.-Early Christians.-Nubia.
-An Arab Cemetery.-Granite Quarries
Assouan.-
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CHAPTER X.
Temples and Tombs. - Egyptian Antiquities. The
God of the Egyptian and the God of the Greek.-
The Pagan and Sacred Historian
CHAPTER XI.
Quarries of Silsilis. - Kom Ombos.-El Kab.-Tomb
Sculptures. Esni. - Potter's Wheel. --Dendera.
-Ekhmin.-The Exodus
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CHAPTER XII.
Return to Thebes.-Tombs of the Kings-The Mem-
nonium. - Tomb Sculptures. - Vocal Memnon.—
Christmas Day
CHAPTER XIII.
Belzoni's Tomb.-Bruce's Tomb.-Tombs as Dwellings.
-Egyptian Custom of Embalming.
CHAPTER XIV.
Beni Hassan. Memphis. - Pyramids of Geezeh.--
Sphynx.-Modern Antiques.-Ascent of Cheops.—
Anecdote
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CHAPTER XV.
Palace and Garden at Shoobra.
Petrified Forest.-
Tombs of the Caliphs.-Last Evening at Cairo
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CHAPTER XVI.
Preparations for the Desert.-El Kanka.-Caravan.-
Heliopolis.-The Ancient Sycamore.-First Encamp-
ment.-The Tents.-Camp Life.--Camel-riding
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Belbess.-Mirage.-A Sand-storm.-First Well.-The
Ramlah.-Franciscan Convent.-The Monk of Pales-
tine. To Jerusalem.-Arrival
View.-The Temple. - Prophecies.-Jesus Christ.
-Holy Places
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CHAPTER XX.
The Holy Sepulchre .
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CHAPTER XXI.
The Jew.-English Church.-The Lepers.
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CHAPTER XXII.
Excursion to the Jordan and Dead Sea.-Scenery.-
Escort.-Jericho. - Encampment. The Jordan.-
Dead Sea.-Mount of Quarantina
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Tomb of the Virgin.-Mary-Worship.-Mount of
Olives
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Bethany.-Tomb of Lazarus.-Bethlehem.-St. Jerome.
-Tomb of Rachel.-Departure from Jerusalem.—
First Encampment at Beeri.-Bethel.-Lebonah.—
Nablous.-Jacob's Well.-The Samaritan
CHAPTER XXV.
Samaria.-Sebaste.-Anemones.-Tomb of John the
Baptist.--Disagreeable Rencontre.-Dangerous People.
-Simoon.-Djenen.-Plains of Esdraelon.-Mount
Hermon.-Shunem.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Mount Tabor. — Pilgrims. Nazareth. Well of the
Virgin. The Convent. - Workshop of Joseph.-
Mount Carmel.-Childhood of Jesus.-Departure for
Galilee.-The Sea of Galilee.-Tiberias.-Plains of
Genesareth.-Muleteers attacked.-Lake Merom.-
Jacob's Bridge
CHAPTER XXVII.
Cæsarea Philippi. Our Lord's Divinity. -Earth-
quake. Hareem of a Turkish Pasha.-Damascus.
-Demetri's Hotel.-Bazaar
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Departure.-Storm.-Plains of Colo-Syria.-Temple
of Baalbec.—Quarries
CHAPTER XXIX.
Crossing the Lebanon.-Druses and Maronites.-Last
Encampment.
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