CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS _Familiar Talks About Countries and Peoples_ WITH THE AUTHOR ON THE SPOT AND THE READER IN HIS HOME, BASED ON THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES OF TRAVEL OVER THE GLOBE THE HOLY LAND AND SYRIA [Illustration: CHRISTIANS RULE THE LAND OF CHRIST Seven hundred years of Moslem supremacy in the Holy Land ended with General Allenby’s modest entrance into Jerusalem. Then arose the cry. “The day of deliverance is come.”] _CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS_ THE HOLY LAND AND SYRIA BY FRANK G. CARPENTER LITT.D., F.R.G.S. [Illustration] NINETY-SIX PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND TWO MAPS IN COLOUR GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1923 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY FRANK G. CARPENTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY. N. Y. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In the publication of this volume on the Holy Land and Syria, I wish to thank the Secretary of State for letters which have given me the assistance of our official representatives in the countries visited. I also thank our Secretary of Agriculture and our Secretary of Labour for appointing me an Honorary Commissioner of their Departments in foreign lands. Their credentials have been of the greatest value, making accessible to me sources of information seldom opened to the ordinary traveller. I wish to acknowledge also the valuable assistance and coöperation rendered by Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, and Miss Josephine Lehmann in the revision of the notes dictated or penned by me on the ground. While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives, there are certain photographs which have been supplied by the Near East Relief, the Red Cross, the Publishers’ Photo Service, and the Zionist Organization of America, all of which are protected by copyright. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I JUST A WORD BEFORE WE START 1 II IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN 4 III THE CITY OF JONAH 14 IV BY RAILWAY TO THE LAND OF JUDEA 23