worshipping and acknowledging His Being and Presence 

 everywhere and everywhen.' 



May 1 8. (At Beyrout.) c An old gentleman at 

 dinner told the old story about a scorpion stinging 

 itself to death when surrounded by a fire, but with this 

 variation, that he put his scorpion under a tumbler, and 

 hot coals all round outside. I don't believe a word of 

 it, unless it was that the coals were so close to the 

 tumbler that the scorpion was baked when there 

 would be no necessity to sting itself to death. I ought 

 to have tried it myself while in this country, but I detest 

 such experiments.' 



From Beyrout the party sailed to Alexandretta, where 

 no one was allowed to land owing to the prevalence of 

 fever in the town ; but the steamer took on board three 

 Arabs heavily ironed, 'convicted of the murder of a 

 whole European family some time ago, but only just 

 captured, and now going to Constantinople to be exe- 

 cuted. They lie on deck for'ard in irons, and apparently 

 quite unconcerned/ After a day at Rhodes they spent 

 several days at Smyrna, and visited Ephesus thence. 

 The hotel at Smyrna was c in a state of chronic screech- 

 ing from 5 a.m. to p.m. Everything with the breath 

 of life in it screeches here. The cats (five) screech ; 

 the cocks and hens (seven) screech ; the fifteen children 

 (of the landlord) all screech ; the dogs (three) screech j 

 until I am almost brought to a state of sympathetic 

 screeching hysteria, though the fits generally go off in a 



