Twenty Fifth Impression

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin And Company

1876

TO

WILLIAM D. HOWELLS

THESE NOTES

OF ORIENTAL TRAVEL

ARE FRATERNALLY INSCRIBED.


CONTENTS

[ PREFACE ]

[ IN THE LEVANT. ]

[ I.—FROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM. ]

[ II.—JERUSALEM. ]

[ III.—HOLY PLACES OP THE HOLY CITY. ]

[ IV.—NEIGHBORHOODS OF JERUSALEM. ]

[ V.—GOING DOWN TO JERICHO. ]

[ VI.—BETHLEHEM AND MAR SABA. ]

[ VII.—THE FAIR OF MOSES; THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH. ]

[ VIII.—DEPARTURE FROM JERUSALEM. ]

[ IX.—ALONG THE SYRIAN COAST. ]

[ X.—BEYROUT.—OVER THE LEBANON. ]

[ XI.—BA'ALBEK. ]

[ XII.—ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. ]

[ XIII.—THE OLDEST OF CITIES. ]

[ XIV.—OTHER SIGHTS IN DAMASCUS. ]

[ XV.—SOME PRIVATE HOUSES. ]

[ XVI.—SOME SPECIMEN TRAVELLERS. ]

[ XVII.—INTO DAYLIGHT AGAIN.—AN EPISODE OF TURKISH JUSTICE. ]

[ XVIII.—CYPRUS. ]

[ XIX.—THROUGH SUMMER SEAS.—RHODES. ]

[ XX.—AMONG THE ÆGEAN ISLANDS. ]

[ XXI.—SMYRNA AND EPHESUS. ]

[ XII.—THE ADVENTURERS. ]

[ XXIII.—THROUGH THE DARDANELLES. ]

[ XIV.—CONSTANTINOPLE. ]

[ XXV.—THE SERAGLIO AND ST. SOPHIA, HIPPODROME, etc. ]

[ XXVI.—SAUNTERINGS ABOUT CONSTANTINOPLE. ]

[ XXVII.—FROM THE GOLDEN HORN TO THE ACROPOLIS. ]

[ XXVIII.—ATHENS. ]

[ XXIX.—ELEUSIS, PLATO'S ACADEME, ETC. ]

[ XXX.—THROUGH THE GULF OF CORINTH. ]