Chapter XXXIX. 
Smyrna’s Lions—­The Martyr Polycarp—­The “Seven Churches”—­Remains of the
Six Smyrnas—­Mysterious Oyster Mine Oysters—­Seeking Scenery—­A Millerite
Tradition—­A Railroad Out of its Sphere

Chapter XL. 
Journeying Toward Ancient Ephesus—­Ancient Ayassalook—­The Villanous
Donkey—­A Fantastic Procession—­Bygone Magnificence—­Fragments of
History—­The Legend of the Seven Sleepers

Chapter XLI. 
Vandalism Prohibited—­Angry Pilgrims—­Approaching Holy Land!—­The “Shrill
Note of Preparation”—­Distress About Dragomans and Transportation
—­The “Long Route” Adopted—­In Syria—­Something about Beirout—­A Choice
Specimen of a Greek “Ferguson”—­Outfits—­Hideous Horseflesh—­Pilgrim
“Style”—­What of Aladdin’s Lamp?

Chapter XLII. 
“Jacksonville,” in the Mountains of Lebanon—­Breakfasting above a Grand
Panorama—­The Vanished City—­The Peculiar Steed, “Jericho”—­The Pilgrims
Progress—­Bible Scenes—­Mount Hermon, Joshua’s Battle Fields, etc. 
—­The Tomb of Noah—­A Most Unfortunate People

Chapter XLIII. 
Patriarchal Customs—­Magnificent Baalbec—­Description of the Ruins
—­Scribbling Smiths and Joneses—­Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law
—­The Revered Fountain of Baalam’s Ass

Chapter XLIV. 
Extracts from Note-Book—­Mahomet’s Paradise and the Bible’s—­Beautiful
Damascus the Oldest City on Earth—­Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old
City—­Damascus Street Car—­The Story of St. Paul—­The “Street called
Straight”—­Mahomet’s Tomb and St. George’s—­The Christian Massacre
—­Mohammedan Dread of Pollution—­The House of Naaman
—­The Horrors of Leprosy

Chapter XLV.  The Cholera by way of Variety—­Hot—­Another Outlandish Procession—­Pen and-Ink Photograph of “Jonesborough,” Syria—­Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter—­The Stateliest Ruin of All—­Stepping over the Borders of Holy-Land—­Bathing in the Sources of Jordan—­More “Specimen” Hunting —­Ruins of Cesarea—­Philippi—­“On This Rock Will I Build my Church”—­The People the Disciples Knew—­The Noble Steed “Baalbec”—­Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs

Chapter xlvi. 
Dan—­Bashan—­Genessaret—­A Notable Panorama—­Smallness of Palestine
—­Scraps of History—­Character of the Country—­Bedouin Shepherds—­Glimpses
of the Hoary Past—­Mr. Grimes’s Bedouins—­A Battle—­Ground of Joshua
—­That Soldier’s Manner of Fighting—­Barak’s Battle—­The Necessity of
Unlearning Some Things—­Desolation

Chapter xlvii. 
“Jack’s Adventure”—­Joseph’s Pit—­The Story of Joseph—­Joseph’s
Magnanimity and Esau’s—­The Sacred Lake of Genessaret—­Enthusiasm of the
Pilgrims—­Why We did not Sail on Galilee—­About Capernaum—­Concerning the
Saviour’s Brothers and Sisters—­Journeying toward Magdela

Chapter XLVIII. 
Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture—­Public Reception of the
Pilgrims—­Mary Magdalen’s House—­Tiberias and its Queer Inhabitants
—­The Sacred Sea of Galilee—­Galilee by Night