The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05

Vandalism Prohibited—Angry Pilgrims—Approaching Holy Land!—The Shrill Note of Preparation —Distress About Dragomans and Transportation—The Long Route Adopted—In Syria—Something about Beirout—A Choice Specimen of a Greek Ferguson —Outfits—Hideous Horseflesh—Pilgrim Style —What of Aladdin's Lamp?
Jacksonville, in the Mountains of Lebanon—Breakfasting above a Grand Panorama—The Vanished City—The Peculiar Steed, Jericho —The Pilgrims Progress—Bible Scenes—Mount Hermon, Joshua's Battle Fields, etc.—The Tomb of Noah—A Most Unfortunate People
Patriarchal Customs—Magnificent Baalbec—Description of the Ruins—Scribbling Smiths and Joneses—Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law—The Revered Fountain of Baalam's Ass
Extracts from Note-Book—Mahomet's Paradise and the Bible's—Beautiful Damascus the Oldest City on Earth—Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old City—Damascus Street Car—The Story of St. Paul—The Street called Straight —Mahomet's Tomb and St. George's—The Christian Massacre—Mohammedan Dread of Pollution—The House of Naaman—The Horrors of Leprosy
The Cholera by way of Variety—Hot—Another Outlandish Procession—Pen and-Ink Photograph of Jonesborough, Syria—Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter—The Stateliest Ruin of All—Stepping over the Borders of Holy-Land—Bathing in the Sources of Jordan—More Specimen Hunting—Ruins of Cesarea—Philippi— On This Rock Will I Build my Church —The People the Disciples Knew—The Noble Steed Baalbec —Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs
Dan—Bashan—Genessaret—A Notable Panorama—Smallness of Palestine—Scraps of History—Character of the Country—Bedouin Shepherds—Glimpses of the Hoary Past—Mr. Grimes's Bedouins—A Battle—Ground of Joshua—That Soldier's Manner of Fighting—Barak's Battle—The Necessity of Unlearning Some Things—Desolation
Jack's Adventure —Joseph's Pit—The Story of Joseph—Joseph's Magnanimity and Esau's—The Sacred Lake of Genessaret—Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims—Why We did not Sail on Galilee—About Capernaum—Concerning the Saviour's Brothers and Sisters—Journeying toward Magdela