CONTENTS.
I. OVER THE JORDAN, AND 1
RETURN BY THE WEST
II. NORTHWARDS TO BEISAN, 85
KADIS, ANTIPATRIS,
ETC.
III. SOUTHWARDS ON THE 144
PHILISTINE PLAIN AND
ITS SEA COAST
IV. HEBRON TO BEERSHEBA, 184
AND HEBRON TO JAFFA
V. THE LAND OF BENJAMIN 199
VI. SEBUSTIEH TO CAIFFA 214
VII. ESDRAELON PLAIN AND 226
ITS VICINITY
VIII. BELAD BESHARAH 253
IX. UPPER GALILEE--FOREST 264
SCENERY
X. TEMPLE OF BAAL AND 283
SEPULCHRE OF
PHOENICIA
XI. JERUSALEM TO PETRA, 289
AND RETURN BY THE
DEAD SEA
XII. ACROSS THE 347
LEBANON--(THREE
PARTS,)
XIII. NORTH-WEST OF THE 414
DEAD SEA
XIV. SOBA 423
XV. THE TWO BAIT SAHHOORS 428
IDENTIFIED
XVI. THE BAKOOSH COTTAGE 435
APPENDIX A 453
APPENDIX B 454
INDEX OF PLACES 461

I. OVER THE JORDAN AND RETURN BY THE WEST.

We were a dozen Englishmen, including three clergymen, undertaking the
above journey accompanied by the large train of servants, interpreters,
and muleteers usually required for travelling in the East. And it was on
Wednesday, the 9th day of May 1855, that we started. This was considered
almost late in the season for such an enterprise. The weather was hot,
chiefly produced by a strong shirocco wind at the time; and, in crossing
over the shoulder of the Mount of Olives, we found the country people
beginning their harvest at Bethany.

We were of course escorted by a party of Arab guides, partly villagers of
either _Abu Dis_ or _Selwan_, (Siloam,) and partly of those Ghawarineh
Arabs not deserving the appellation of Bedaween, who live around and
about Jericho. These people, of both c