News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

Jeddah, in the Holy Land, and the
Red sea tossed us about in a very un-
kindly way.
.From Jeddah we went to Suez, halted
there day or two, but found nothing
except dirty Arabs, big flies, hot sand
and fleas.
"At Cairo we were not allowed to go
I'D the Nile, because of the war, but
we went as far as the pyramids on
donkeys, and we climbed the great
pyramid of Cheops, and crawled into
some tombs on our hands and knees.
We went to Alexandria and took a
steamer for Jaffa, and it was at Alex
andria that we received the only insult
offered US during our tour of the
world. An Arab who demanded more
for the use of his carriage than We
were obliged to pay became SO angry
that he spat at us as our boat was
pushing off from shore for the steam
er. That was the greatest insult a
Moslem could offer.
1--WE hired a carriage at Jaffa and
went alone TO Jerusalem. Then we
went to Jericho, and of all the dirty
holes Jericho is the worst. Its Louscs
are little larger than pigpens, and not
SO clean. They are rooted with straw,
and in these miserable dwellings hui
man beings and animals, all filthy, are
hived together. We went to the
Mount of Olives, to Bethlehem and
Solomon's pools, and always unattend-
ed. We attended the Easter week SER
vices in Jerusalem, and one time we
were locked in the temple with ~, 900
people for seven Tours. We batEed
in the Dead Sea, but the alkali in the
water nearly skinned us alive. After
we had been inside the mosque of
Omar, we started, with a retinue of
servants, for Damascus, following a
large caravan, as we had be, n advised
to do to avoid robbers. We passed
through Samaria and Nazareth, and at
liberia the feas troubled us so much
that we walked into the sea of Gallilee
and put ourselves to soak. Resuming
our journey, we camped near the sea,
but lost the caravan of pilgrims which
we were following. f rtunately, a
camel train went into camp near US,
and we were told that our servants
must be kept on guard at night as
protection against the providers of the
desert.
awe stayed with hospitable Turkish
family in Damascus, and visited some
of the finest houses in the city.
Thence t. Baaibec, and on the road we
put up at house which contained one
Hn+ no 20
of 10 persons, who slept on a concrete
floor. There was no ventilation, and
the smoke from the open fireplace
came directly into the room. We
showed no valuables and took out no
watches while traversing that region.
AT Baalbec we spent some time at the
ruins, and then we RIDE on in a pour
ing rain, and learned that steamer
was to leave Beyrout for Constantine
pie the following night. We were
tired, but we made forced march to
Beyrout, where we arrived half asleep,
and found that the steamer would be
delayed one day in starting. We got
reshod and then went aboard.
eve remained in Constantinople
about one week and then went to Alh-
ems, where we staid another week.
There Miss Bennison parted from me,
going into the interior of Greece, while
L proceeded to Naples, climbed up
Vesuvius, and went to Rome, Florence,
Pisa, Venice, Turin and Milan, and
then we met again at Genoa. On the
Fourth of July, 1884, we left Milan
for Switzerland, by way of Como and
the st. Gothard tunnel. We spent six
weeks in Switzerland where we walked
about 600 miles. At Geneva we
again, my friend going north
and 1 to France, and thence to England
and home, arriving at Farnumsville in
November, 1884,