THE HOLY LAND Bethlehem Jerusalem The Dead Sea Samaria Galilee SYRIA Damascus ARABIA TURKEY IN ASIA Armenia Kurdistan Mesopotamia PERSIA Teheran CHINA COCHIN CHINA Tonquin Cambodia HINDOSTAN The Ganges The Thugs The Hindoo Women The English in India CIRCASSIA GEORGIA Tiflis TARTARY Astracan Bokhara The Toorkman Tartars CHINESE TARTARY AFFGHANISTAN BELOOCHISTAN BURMAH The Karens Ava Maulmain The Missionary's babe SIAM Bankok MALACCA Singapore The Christian school-girls SIBERIA The Samoyedes The Banished Russians The Ural Mountains KAMKATKA THIBET Lassa CEYLON Kandy Colombo BORNEO Bruni The Dyaks JAPAN AUSTRALIA The Colonists or Settlers Botany Bay Sydney Adelaide VAN DIEMAN'S LAND The Young Savages Little Mickey FAR OFF. ASIA. Of the four quarters of the world--Asia is the most glorious. There the first man lived. There the Son of God lived. There the apostles lived. There the Bible was written. Yet now there are very few Christians in Asia: though there are more people there than in any other quarter of the globe. THE HOLY LAND. Of all the countries in the world which would you rather see? Would it not be the land where Jesus lived? He was the Son of God: He loved us and died for us. What is the land called where He lived? Canaan was once its name: but now Palestine, or the Holy Land. Who lives there now? Alas! alas! The Jews who once lived there are cast out of it. There are some Jews there; but the Turks are the lords over the land. You know the Turks believe in Mahomet. What place in the Holy Land do you wish most to visit? Some children will reply, Bethlehem, because Jesus was born there; another will answer, Nazareth, because Jesus was brought up there; and another will say, "Jerusalem," because He died there. I will take you first to BETHLEHEM. A good minister visited this place, accompanied by a train of servants, and camels, and asses. It is not easy to travel in Palestine, for wheels are never seen there, because the paths are too steep, and rough, and narrow for carriages. Bethlehem is on a steep hill, and a white road of chalk leads up to the gate. The traveller found the streets narrow, dark, and dirty. He lodged in a convent, kept by Spanish monks. He was shown into a large room with carpets and cushions on the floor. There he was to sleep. He was led up to the roof of the house to see the prospect. He looked, and beheld the fields below where the shepherds once watched their flocks by night: and far off he saw the rocky mountains where David once hid himself from Saul.