At eight o’clock in the morning, the Empress’s yacht led the procession through the Canal, and Stanley followed, in the steamer ‘Europe.’ He next went up the Nile, to Upper Egypt, as one of a party of seventy invited guests of the Khedive; ‘twenty-three days of most exquisite pleasure, unmarred by a single adverse incident.’ The next part of his programme was to visit Jerusalem, where he saw the unearthing of her antique grandeurs, sixty feet underground. Stanley proceeded thence to Constantinople, where he wrote a long letter for the ‘New York Herald,’ on the Crimea; and here he met, once more, his kind friend, the American Minister, Mr. Joy Morris, who presented him with a beautiful Winchester rifle, and gave him letters of introduction to General Ignatieff, General Stoletoff, and various Governors and Ministers in Persia. Stanley now travelled through the Caucasus, where he found unexpected civilisation. He rated highly the advantages which Russia’s much-censured conquest of the Caucasus had brought in its train: warring tribes brought to peace, feuds and mutual slaughter stopped, local religions and customs respected, and an end put to barbarism and feudality, ‘which terms are almost synonymous, as witness the mountain towers and fortresses, once the terror of the country, now silent and crumbling.’ Tiflis affords as much amusement and comfort as any second-rate town or city in Europe. From his Journal are here given one or two passages, to illustrate how Stanley observed and judged the individuals of his own race and civilisation. * * * * * February 5th, 1870. Reached the Dardanelles at noon. One of my fellow-voyagers is the Rev. Dr. Harman, of Maryland, an elderly and large man, who is a marvel of theological erudition, a mixture of Jonathan Edwards and the Vicar of Wakefield. Most of the morning we had passed classic ground, and, as he is a Greek scholar of some repute, his delight was so infectious that we soon became warm friends. He also has been to Jerusalem, Damascus, and Ephesus, and many other places of biblical and classical interest; and, in a short time, with a face shining with enthusiasm, he communicated to me many of his impressions and thoughts upon what he had seen, as my sympathy was so evident. St. Paul is his favourite; the Seven Churches of Asia, and the inwardness of the Revelations, are topics dear to him; and, perceiving that I was a good listener, the dear old gentleman simply ‘let himself go,’ uttering deep and weighty things with a warmth that was unexpected.