bad pictures heaped up over them, takes away all 

 interest, and rouses in one a spirit of scepticism and 

 incredulity, or at all events raises feelings of anything 

 but pleasure or reverence, in the midst of so much to 

 shock and offend. So to treat the places of our Lord's 

 acts, etc. (even supposing they were undoubtedly the 

 spots), is really, to say the best of it, cc seeking the living 

 among the dead ' Y 



March ^J. c Shopping in city (Jerusalem) after break- 

 fast in Jewish quarter. Curious streets, as if under- 

 ground, with a kind of vaulted archway over the whole 

 length, light admitted by shafts. Shops Oriental 

 fashion, like holes in the wall ; the shopman sitting, 

 or rather squatting, amongst his goods. The driftway 

 between the two rows of shops, about 4 ft. wide, paved 

 with a sort of irregular boulders of every size, round- 

 headed and laid at every level, slippery as glass from 

 friction of slippers and naked feet. This driftway 

 crowded with people following every sort of avocation ; 

 sundry boys and girls going from one part to another 

 with live coals some with one in a small pair of tongs, 

 others with two or three in a little sort of tin mug, 

 their use, I conclude, for lighting pipes. A very strange 

 scene altogether- from the smell one might conclude 

 one had got into a ferret-box by mistake , and through 

 this crowded narrow thoroughfare every now and then 

 a donkey or a drove of donkeys came blundering and 

 tumbling through, with perhaps packs on their backs as 



