Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. No attempt has been made to correct or normalize the spelling of non-English words. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. (note of etext transcriber.)] [Illustration: TABOR.] TENT WORK IN PALESTINE. A Record of Discovery and Adventure. BY CLAUDE REIGNIER CONDER, R.E., OFFICER IN COMMAND OF THE SURVEY EXPEDITION. Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. W. WHYMPER. New Edition. [Illustration] LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1887. [_All Rights Reserved._] TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES This Work is Dedicated, WITH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS’ GRACIOUS PERMISSION, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The Survey of Western Palestine was commenced under Captain Stewart, R.E., in January, 1872. Ill-health obliged that officer to return almost immediately. Lieutenant Conder, R.E., was appointed to the command, and arrived in Palestine in the summer of the same year. The work meantime had been conducted under the charge of the late Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake. Lieutenant Conder returned to England in October, 1875, having surveyed 4700 square miles. The remaining 1300 square miles of the Survey were finished by Lieutenant Kitchener in 1877. The present volume contains Lieutenant Conder’s personal history of his work, without specially entering on the scientific results. These will be published with the great map in the form of memoirs, twenty-six in number, one to every sheet. Lieutenant Conder’s conclusions and proposed identifications are, it will be understood, his own. The Committee do not, collectively, adopt the conclusions of any of their officers. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE v INTRODUCTION xi I. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM 1 II. SHECHEM AND THE SAMARITANS 15 III. THE SURVEY OF SAMARIA 41 IV. THE GREAT PLAIN OF ESDRAELON 58