ILLUSTRATIONS.
| COLORED PLATES. | Page. |
| The River Jordan, where it is supposed Christ was baptised, | [380] |
| Vesuvius in Action, | [526] |
| MAP. | |
| Palestine—Time of Christ, | [250] |
| WOOD ENGRAVINGS, PHOTO-ENGRAVINGS, ETC. | |
| Steel Plate of the Author—[Frontispiece], | |
| Clarence P. Johnson, | [40] |
| Burns’ Cottage, | [42] |
| Burns’ Monument, | [45] |
| Edinburgh, | [48] |
| Scott’s Monument, | [51] |
| Edinburgh Castle, | [53] |
| Abbotsford, | [76] |
| Melrose Abbey, | [78] |
| Newstead Abbey, | [94] |
| Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey, | [104] |
| Nelson’s Monument, | [106] |
| The House of Parliament, | [109] |
| The Tower of London, | [112] |
| St. Paul’s Cathedral, | [115] |
| Chas. H. Spurgeon, | [120] |
| Bunyan’s Cottage, | [129] |
| Edward Parker, | [132] |
| Queen Victoria, | [144] |
| Windsor Castle, | [146] |
| The Home of Shakespeare, etc., (six pictures,) | [148] |
| Strasburg Cathedral, | [158] |
| View on the Rhine, | [164] |
| Giessbach Falls, | [192] |
| A Glacier in Switzerland, | [197] |
| Among the Peaks, | [202] |
| Hospice in the Alps, | [208] |
| Swiss Mountains, | [211] |
| The Belvidere, Vienna, | [221] |
| The Danube, | [224] |
| Castle on the Danube, | [226] |
| Constantinople, | [228] |
| Modern Athens, | [231] |
| The Acropolis, | [233] |
| The Parthenon of the Acropolis, | [234] |
| The Acropolis of Athens as it was, | [235] |
| Turkish Lady, | [243] |
| Island of Patmos, | [247] |
| Cedars of Lebanon, | [263] |
| Ruins of Baalbek, | [274] |
| Damascus, | [278] |
| Tombs of the Caliphs, | [290] |
| Sea of Galilee, | [313] |
| Palms in Bush Form, | [321] |
| Priest of the Greek Church, | [325] |
| Vale and City of Nazareth, | [330] |
| Interior of a Caravansary, | [338] |
| Dancing Girl, | [341] |
| Snake Charmer, | [343] |
| Ancient Sheep Fold, | [344] |
| Mt. of Olives, | [348] |
| An Arab Horseman, | [350] |
| A Bedouin, | [352] |
| View on the Road from Jerusalem to Jericho, | [356] |
| Ford of the Jordan, | [391] |
| View in the Valley of the Jordan, | [395] |
| The Dead Sea, | [399] |
| Lot’s Wife, | [402] |
| Ruth, | [415] |
| Cave of the Nativity, | [418] |
| Bethlehem, | [420] |
| Pools of Solomon, | [423] |
| Mosque of Hebron, | [424] |
| Government Guards, | [438] |
| Jerusalem, | [448] |
| Hills and Walls of Jerusalem, | [450] |
| Old Olive Trees in Gethsemane, | [455] |
| Street in Jerusalem, | [459] |
| Wailing Place of the Jews, | [461] |
| Mosque of Omar, | [470] |
| Solomon’s Temple as it was, | [474] |
| Holy Sepulchre, | [483] |
| Pool of Siloam, | [486] |
| Tombs of the Kings of Judah, | [489] |
| Burial of Christ, | [492] |
| The Castle of David and Jaffa Gate, | [497] |
| An Egyptian, | [502] |
| Donkey Boys of Cairo, | [507] |
| Pyramid and Sphinx, | [509] |
| Pompeii, Street of Cornelius Rufus, | [517] |
| Climbing Mt. Vesuvius, | [528] |
| Colosseum of Rome, | [537] |
| John H. Eager, | [555] |
| Baptist Chapel at Pellice, Italy, | [559] |
| Leaning Tower of Pisa, | [565] |
CHAPTER I.
OFF FOR NEW YORK.
Preparations—A Prayer and a Benediction—An Impatient Horse and a Run for Eternity—Strange Sceptre and Despotic Sway—Beauty in White Robes—Approaching the Metropolis—Business Heart of the New World—A Bright Face and a Cordial Greeting—An Hour with the President—More for a Shilling and Less for a Pound—A Stranger Dies in the Author’s Arms—Namesake—Prospects of Becoming a Great Man—A Confused College Student—The Hour of Departure—Native Land.