Year. | No. of Pilgrims | Length of their | received. | stay (days). | | 1850 | 3611 | 16373 1851 | 3797 | 28580 1852 | 5696 | 20109 1853 | 5574 | 21364 1854 | 4620 | 18144 1855 | 6874 | 23522 1856 | 5470 | 21302 1857 | 7196 | 26280 1858 | 5809 | 25800 1859 | 7116 | 27792 Therefore in these ten years 55,763 pilgrims have been admitted into the different convents in Palestine, who were supported during 229,346 days, and their offerings cannot have been enough to entertain them for a third part of their stay, so that the Friars cannot be said to derive any advantage from them. The Latin Patriarchate, though its revenues are small in comparison with the expenses it has to support, practises largely the virtue of hospitality, and knows well how to succour the poor and destitute. The Protestant Mission relieves the poor, but does not offer to travellers or pilgrims of its own faith the same advantage as the heads of the Latin community, who bestow their benefits upon members of other religious sects with as much care as upon their own. The Jewish community relieves its pilgrims from the moment of their arrival, admitting them into houses appointed for that purpose; but if the strangers are without means of their own, they have no great cause to praise the welcome and hospitality they receive.