and ten days in Naples, whence they made excursions to 

 the crater of Vesuvius and to Pompeii, and then sailed 

 to the East again, arriving at Alexandria on March 6. 

 After eight days they sailed to Jaffa, and landed there 

 on the 1 6th. The whole of my father's diary during 

 the two-months' tour in Palestine and Syria is full of 

 interest. He combined his visits to the sacred sites 

 with much hard entomological work, and seems greatly 

 to have enjoyed his life in tents and the constantly 

 changing interests of the journey. The party visited 

 every part of the Holy Land, and went as far north as 

 Damascus before returning to the sea at Beyrout over the 

 Lebanon Range. The following are among the more 

 interesting or typical entries in his diary : 



March 16. c Difficult amid the Babel of Arabs to 

 realize the fact that one is at last on Terra Sancta, and 

 in a place as noted in Scripture History as Joppa. Did 

 not go to have a supposititious house pointed out as 

 the residence of Simon the Tanner, or another as that 

 of Dorcas. Quite enough to know and feel that these 

 things happened in the town very unnecessary to have 

 a spirit of incredulity stirred up by those who will insist 

 on making you believe in the spots themselves by 

 which, even if they 'were known, in all probability no- 

 thing but superstition and abuse would result.' 



March 19. On a stunted olive in the bleakest part 

 of the Valley of Hinnom sat a raven, croaking away, as 

 we went by truly a fit inhabitant of that blood-stained 



