GOVERNMENT HOUSE, DEVONPORT, _Christmas Day, 1902_. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Frontispiece FACING PAGE 2. Jaffa 8 3. The "Cenaculum." Site of the House of the Last Supper 26 4. In the Garden of Gethsemane. Noonday. Looking towards Valley of Jehoshaphat 30 5. Bethany 32 6. "Ain Kareem," reputed birthplace of John the Baptist, from roof of Convent of the Visitation 36 7. Solomon's Pools, near Jerusalem, looking towards Dead Sea 38 8. Bethlehem from the Sheepfold, Field of Boaz 42 9. The Plain of the Jordan, looking from "New Jericho" towards Mount Pisgah 48 10. The Plain of Esdraelon, from foot of Tabor, with the village of Naim in distance 60 11. Our First Sight of Lake Galilee 62 12. Galilee, looking towards Hermon 64 13. Galilee, looking from near the mouth of the Jordan towards the "Mount of Beatitudes" and Tabor 66 14. Nazareth at Sunrise 68 15. St. Jean d'Acre 72 16. Ruins of the Crusaders' Banqueting Hall, Athleet 78 _The illustrations in this volume have been engraved and printed by the Carl Hentschel Colourtype Process_ LETTERS FROM THE HOLY LAND IN THE ADRIATIC, _28th February 189-_. My....--I am out on the dark waters of the Adriatic. It is late, and the people on board are little by little subsiding into their cabins, and I shall write you my first letter _en route_ for the Holy Land.