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French Govcrnor-Generul, he was enabled to pusli liis 

 excursions across the Atlas far into the interior of the 

 Sahara. Avhcre. as he tells us, he found an. ^'atmosphere 

 bright, drv, and invigorating," Avhich exactly suited Lis 

 case. It Avas, in fact, to the two winters passed in Algeria 

 that he always attributed his recovery from the malady 

 Avhich had threatened him. 



The results of these expeditions were the excellent series 

 of papers on the ornithology of Northern Africa published in 

 this Journal in 1859, I860, and 1861, and the very attractive 

 volume on his journeyings in the " Great Sahara,^' issued 

 in 1860, which, in our opinion, may fairly claim a place of 

 the very highest rank among the narratives of travels of 

 Naturalists. 



Another part of the world to which Tristram devoted 

 special attention was Palestine. It was in the early part oi: 

 1858 that he first landed there, during a yachting visit to 

 the Mediterranean. His ornithological notes Avritten on 

 this occasion were published in tlie first volume of ' The 

 Ibis; to which he was a constant contributor. In the 

 autumn of 1863 he made a further visit to the Holy Land, 

 where he remained until the following summer. This visit 

 was the chief origin of his instructive and charming volume 

 on ' The Land of Israel/ published by the Society for 

 Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1865. In 1872 Tristram 

 was again in Palestine, and pushed his travels beyond the 

 Jordan. On this occasion he discovered the ruins of the 

 great Persian Palace at Mashita, built by Chosroes about 

 A.D. 614, which had been previously almost forgotten. 

 Upon this journey he founded his interesting volume on 

 'The Land of Moab,' which was published in 1873. 



Tristram's next trip to Palestine was in 1881, when he 

 travelled from Jaffa to Hebron, and thence turned north- 

 wards to Damascus. From Damascus he made a long 

 excursion across the Euphrates, and visited " Vv of the 

 Chaldees." In 1894 he was again in Palestine, and again 

 in 1897. It was on this last visit that, while riding with a 

 party o£ friends near Jerusalem, he had his leg broken by 



