CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 EGYPT AND PALESTINE. 



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Introductory — Choosing a Dragoman — Djebel Mokattam — The Nile 

 Steamer — The Mecca Caravan — Sail for Syria — A Poor Traveller — 

 Struck by Lightning — Syrian Sloughs and Storms — The River Kishon — 

 Arrival at Jerusalem — An Idea worked out — ' Vive la Mer Morte ! ' — 

 Jericho — We fall among Thieves — The Jordan Valley — Capture of a 

 Standard-bearer — Ferry of the Jordan .•.....! 



CHAPTER II. 



BASHAN. 



The English Soldier— A Mountain Ride— Es-Salt — Lost on the HUls — 

 The Jabbok — Camp of the Beni-Hassan — Suppressing a Sheikh — The 

 Oak Forests of Gi lead — The Tablelands — An Uxorious Sheikli — Derat — 

 The Roman Road — The Robbers repulsed — Ghusam — Bozrah — Honoured 

 Guests — A Ramble in the Ruins — Kureiyeh — Patriarchal Hospitality — 

 Hebran — A Stone House — Kufr — Ascent of El-Kleib — Suweideh — 

 Kunawat — Noble Ruins — Shuhba — Hades on Earth — Visiting Extra- 

 ordinary — The Lejah — A Lava Flood — Ahireh — Khubab- — A Rush to 

 Arms — The Stolen Mule — A Village in Pursuit — Mismiyeh — The ' Giant 

 Cities ' are Roman Towns — The Wrath of the Beys — A Friendly Sulut 

 — Kesweh — Entrance to Damascus . . . . . . .16 



CHAPTER III. 

 LEBANON AND THE LEVANT. 



Damascus — Bazaars and Gardens — An Enthusiastic Freemason — Snow- 

 storm on Anti-Lebanon — Baalbec — An Alpine Walk — The Cedars — 

 Return to Beyrout — Cyprus and Rhodes — Smyrna — The Valley of the 

 Maeander — Excavations at Ephesus — Constantinople — The Persian 

 Khan — May-Day at the Sweet Waters— Preparations for the Caucasus . 63 



