Famous Scripture locality.--Village of robbers.--Battlefield of Palestine.--Mounts Tabor and Hermon.--Nazareth.--The Holy Grotto.--Table of Christ.--Arab plows.--Cana of Galilee.--Arab school.--Sea of Galilee.--Tiberias.--Bedouin spinsters.--Residence of Mary Magdalene.--Serenaded by Bedouins.--Backsheesh. LETTER XI. The Stone of Unction.--The Holy Sepulchre.--The Chapel of the Angel.--Hill of Calvary.--The hole in which the Cross was planted.--House of Pilate.--"Behold the Man!"--The true Cross.--A terrible Massacre.--Turkish Guards.--Christianity despised by Jews and Mohammedans.--Farewell to Jerusalem.--Gala day.--Arab Agriculture.--Shechem.--Ferocious People.--The Olive.--Samaria. LETTER XII. Beyrout.--Protestant college and schools.--Embark for Constantinople.--Island of Cyprus.--Mount Olympus.--Sea of Marmora.--Arrival at the Turkish Metropolis.--Greek Independence Day.--At Athens.--Classical ruins.--Peculiar Greek customs.--Funeral ceremony. LETTER XIII. Munich.--Visit to a Royal Palace.--Statue of Bavaria.--Imperial Wedding.--Vienna.--The Arsenal.--Summer Palace.--The Great Exhibition.--Berlin.--Royal Palace.--Banquet Hall.--Monuments.--U. S. Minister.--Parliament.--Soldiers.--Moral condition of Berlin.--Hamburg.--In London. LETTER XIV. At St. Louis.--Fine scenery.--Visit relatives.--Poem.--Obtain genealogies.--Acknowledgment. LETTER XV. Home again.--Reception by friends. Chapter I. Lorenzo Snow's Birth and Parentage--Parents settled in Ohio.--Hardships and Privations.--Their Hospitality.--Lorenzo's early Characteristics.--Fondness for Books.--Military Aims.--Change in Pursuits.--Starts for Oberlin College.--Falls in Company with David W. Patten.--Conversation.--In College.--Eliza Embraces the Gospel.--Moves to Kirtland.--How she obtained a House and Lot.--Lorenzo in College.--Investigates.--Is disgusted.--Writes to Eliza.--Her Invitation.--He accepts and comes to Kirtland.--Studies Hebrew.--Is Baptized.--How he receives the Holy Ghost. Lorenzo Snow, son of Oliver and Rosetta L. Pettibone Snow, was born April 3, 1814, in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Our father was a native of Massachusetts, our mother of Connecticut, and were descendants of the genuine Puritan stock--those who fled from religious persecution in the "old world," and landed on Plymouth Rock, of historic celebrity. Early in the settlement of that portion of country now known as the Middle States, our parents, with their family, consisting of two daughters, Leonora Abigail, and Eliza Roxcy, (the writer of this history,) left the home of their youth, and moved to what was at that period considered the extreme West, or, as it was sometimes styled, "the jumping off place," and settled in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, making the eleventh family in the township. There two daughters and three sons were added to the family, to wit: Amanda Percy, Melissa, Lorenzo, Lucius Augustus, and Samuel Pearce.