Bubastis, city of cat worship, 9. Caiaphas, the house of, 44. Cain and Abel, Moslem tradition of, 246. Calvary, the site as located by General Gordon, 46. Camels and their use, 164. Cana, village of, 195. Candies of Damascus, 218. Capernaum, excavations at, 192. Carmelite nunnery on Mount of Olives, 126. Cat worship, at Bubastis, 9. Catacombs of Jerusalem, 60. Cave dwellers in Jerusalem, 39. Cedars of Lebanon, 240. Cemeteries, weddings in, 83. Censorship of reading matter by Turkish officials, 255. Chapel of the Ascension, 127. Chapel of the Manger, 146. Children of the Holy Land, 182. Christ, Tomb of, 90. Christians barred from railroads to Mohammedan holy cities, 242. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 48, 88. Church of the Lord’s Prayer, the, 126. Church of the Nativity, 144. Costumes of Damascus women, 224. Crucifixion, relics of the, 91. Damascus, the world’s oldest city, 204; the heart of the Mohammedan world, 209; massacres of Christians at, in modern times, 209, 217; bazaars of, 214; foreign trade, 220; manufacture of jewellery, 221. Damascus-Beirut railway, travels on, 246. David, Tower of, 36. David-Goliath battlefield, 25. Day of Judgment, the Mohammedan belief, 46. Dead Sea, the, 129, 131, 135. Dervishes, fanaticism of the, 278. Diana, temple of, at Ephesus, 263. Divorce, in Damascus, 225. Donkeys, their use in the Holy Land, 164. Dorcas, the tomb of, 21. Easter Week in Jerusalem, 48, 55, 84. Ebal, Mount, 157. Eddy, Dr. Mary, work of, as medical missionary, 260. Education, American, in the Near East, 252. Elijah, the cave of, 122. Elisha, the fountain of, 122. Ephesus, excavations at, 262. Eucalyptus, introduction of the, 170. Evil Eye, belief in the, 78. Excavations, at Baalbek, German, 234; at Ephesus, 262; at Jericho, 119. Farming in Palestine, 159. Fat-tailed sheep, 141. Fatima, tomb of, at Damascus, 210. Field of Boaz, 140, 141. Field of Peas, the, 142. Field of the Shepherds, the, 142. Figs, production of, in Syria, 269. Fishermen of the Sea of Galilee, 189. Flight into Egypt, the, 10. Flowers of Palestine, the, 165. Foot washing, the ceremony of, 95. Franz Josef, costly gifts of, to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 50. French-Jewish Society, work of, 171. Fuel, scarcity of, 33. Gabriel’s Spring, Nazareth, 180. Gadarenes, land of the, 188. Galilee, Sea of, 131, 187. Garden of Gethsemane, the, 127. German church at Jerusalem, 43, 249, 250. German colonies in Palestine, 248. German excavations at Baalbek, 234. German hospice at Jerusalem, 249. Germany’s methods in the Near East, 249. Gerizim, Mount, Samaritan Passover sacrifice on, 150. Gethsemane, Garden of, 46, 127. Gezer, excavations at, 27. Gifts to the churches, 108. Gihon, Pool of, 139.