The Holy Land and Syria

by Frank G. Carpenter

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY. N. Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In the publication of this volume on the Holy Land and Syria, I wish to thank the Secretary of State for letters which have given me the assistance of our official representatives in the countries visited. I also thank our Secretary of Agriculture and our Secretary of Labour for appointing me an Honorary Commissioner of their Departments in foreign lands. Their credentials have been of the greatest value, making accessible to me sources of information seldom opened to the ordinary traveller.

I wish to acknowledge also the valuable assistance and coöperation rendered by Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, and Miss Josephine Lehmann in the revision of the notes dictated or penned by me on the ground.

While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives, there are certain photographs which have been supplied by the Near East Relief, the Red Cross, the Publishers’ Photo Service, and the Zionist Organization of America, all of which are protected by copyright.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Just a Word Before We Start	[1]
II	In the Land of Goshen	[4]
III	The City of Jonah	[14]
IV	By Railway to the Land of Judea	[23]
V	From Dan to Beersheba	[30]
VI	Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century	[36]
VII	Around the Walls of the Holy City	[43]
VIII	“The Tribes of God Go Thither”	[48]
IX	On the Site of Solomon’s Temple	[57]
X	Jews of Palestine	[68]
XI	The Evil Eye	[78]
XII	Easter in Jerusalem	[84]
XIII	Washing the Feet of the Apostles	[95]
XIV	A Talk with the Greek Patriarch	[101]
XV	Among the Money Changers	[111]
XVI	Excavating Old Jericho	[119]
XVII	The Dead Sea and the Jordan	[129]
XVIII	Bethlehem	[138]
XIX	Among the Samaritans	[149]
XX	Farming in the Land of Milk and Honey	[159]
XXI	The Colonies and Their Development	[169]
XXII	Where Our Saviour Spent His Boyhood	[177]
XXIII	On the Sea of Galilee	[187]
XXIV	The Zionist Movement	[196]
XXV	The World’s Oldest City	[204]
XXVI	Shopping in the Street Called Straight	[214]
XXVII	The Veiled Women of Damascus	[223]
XXVIII	Baalbek the Wonderful	[232]
XXIX	Across the Lebanon Mountains by Rail	[242]
XXX	American Leaven in the Near East	[252]
XXXI	At the Shrine of Diana of the Ephesians	[262]
XXXII	Armenia, the Suffering	[271]
XXXIII	Palestine and Syria under New Rulers	[280]
Seeing the World		[287]
Bibliography		[289]
Index		[293]