Chapter XLIX. 
The Ancient Baths—­Ye Apparition—­A Distinguished Panorama—­The Last
Battle of the Crusades—­The Story of the Lord of Kerak—­Mount Tabor
—­What one Sees from its Top—­Memory of a Wonderful Garden—­The House of
Deborah the Prophetess

Chapter L.
Toward Nazareth—­Bitten By a Camel—­Grotto of the Annunciation, Nazareth
—­Noted Grottoes in General—­Joseph’s Workshop—­A Sacred Bowlder
—­The Fountain of the Virgin—­Questionable Female Beauty
—­Literary Curiosities

Chapter Li. 
Boyhood of the Saviour—­Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims—­Home of the
Witch of Endor—­Nain—­Profanation—­A Popular Oriental Picture—­Biblical
Metaphors Becoming steadily More Intelligible—­The Shuuem Miracle
—­The “Free Son of The Desert”—­Ancient Jezrael—­Jehu’s Achievements
—­Samaria and its Famous Siege

Chapter LII
Curious Remnant of the Past—­Shechem—­The Oldest “First Family” on Earth
—­The Oldest Manuscript Extant—­The Genuine Tomb of Joseph—­Jacob’s Well
—­Shiloh—­Camping with the Arabs—­Jacob’s Ladder—­More Desolation
—­Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The Fountain of Beira—­Impatience
—­Approaching Jerusalem—­The Holy City in Sight—­Noting Its Prominent
Features—­Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls

Chapter LIII.  “The Joy of the Whole Earth”—­Description of Jerusalem—­Church of the Holy Sepulchre—­The Stone of Unction—­The Grave of Jesus—­Graves of Nicodemus and Joseph of Armattea—­Places of the Apparition—­The Finding of the There Crosses——­The Legend—­Monkish Impostures—­The Pillar of Flagellation—­The Place of a Relic—­Godfrey’s Sword—­“The Bonds of Christ”—­“The Center of the Earth”—­Place whence the Dust was taken of which Adam was Made—­Grave of Adam—­The Martyred Soldier—­The Copper Plate that was on the Cross—­The Good St. Helena—­Place of the Division of the Garments—­St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief—­The Late Emperor Maximilian’s Contribution—­Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the Nails, and the Crown of Thorns—­Chapel of the Mocking—­Tomb of Melchizedek—­Graves of Two Renowned Crusaders—­The Place of the Crucifixion

ChapterLIV. 

The “Sorrowful Way”—­The Legend of St. Veronica’s Handkerchief —­An Illustrious Stone—­House of the Wandering Jew—­The Tradition of the Wanderer—­Solomon’s Temple—­Mosque of Omar—­Moslem Traditions—­“Women not Admitted”—­The Fate of a Gossip—­Turkish Sacred Relics—­Judgment Seat of David and Saul—­Genuine Precious Remains of Solomon’s Temple—­Surfeited with Sights—­The Pool of Siloam—­The Garden of Gethsemane and Other Sacred Localities

ChapterLV. 

Rebellion in the Camp—­Charms of Nomadic Life—­Dismal Rumors—­En Route for Jericho and The Dead Sea—­Pilgrim Strategy—­Bethany and the Dwelling of Lazarus—­“Bedouins!”—­Ancient Jericho—­Misery—­The Night March —­The Dead Sea—­An Idea of What a “Wilderness” in Palestine is—­The Holy hermits of Mars Saba—­Good St. Saba—­Women not Admitted—­Buried from the World for all Time—­Unselfish Catholic Benevolence—­Gazelles—­The Plain of the Shepherds—­Birthplace of the Saviour, Bethlehem—­Church of the Nativity—­Its Hundred Holy Places—­The Famous “Milk” Grotto—­Tradition —­Return to Jerusalem—­Exhausted