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 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction - _ _ . 3 
 
 Special Steamers between Beyrout and Constantinople 16, 24 
 
 Personal Management and Supervision - 17 
 
 Guide Books - 19, 101 
 
 Itineraries of Spring Tours to Palestine - 23 
 
 Itinerary for a Month's Tour in Palestine - - 27 
 
 Itinerary of Special Five Weeks' Tour in Palestine - - 34 
 Special Tours Returning by the New International Railway and by the 
 
 Danube . _ . - _ 36 
 
 Special Conducted Tour to the Desert, Sinai, Petra, &c. - 38 
 
 Tours to Lower Egypt and the Holy Land - -40 
 
 Fares of Personally Conducted Parties - - 46 
 
 Deposits, Notices, &c., &o. - 47, 48, 49 
 
 Dates for Posting Letters to Members of the Parties - 50 
 
 Independent Tours to Palestine - - - 51 
 
 Short Tours to Beyrout, Baalbeo, and Damascus - 52 
 
 Daily Itinerary of Desert Tour - - - 54 
 
 Additional Arrangements for Private and Independent Tours - - 57 
 
 Model Routes and Times for Forty-four Days' Tour in Palestine - 65 
 
 Tour to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor 67 
 
 Tours to Bagdad - 68 
 
 Tours to Jerusalem and back 70 
 
 Short Tour to Jerusalem, Jericho, the Jordan, &c. - 73 
 
 Island of Cyprus - - 74 
 
 Itineraries of Tours up the Nile to the First Cataract - 75 
 
 Routes from London to the East - - - 81 
 
 Miscellaneous Notes for Eastern Travellers 83 
 
 British Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem - gg 
 
 Syrian Mission of the American Presbyterian Church - 87 
 Names of Distinguished Persons who have travelled under the Arrangements 
 
 of Thos. Cook & Son - 89 
 
 Cook's General Travelling Arrangements 97 
 
 Offices and Agencies of Thomas Cook & Son - - 100 
 
nrgrammu kuH |tinuaries 
 
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 COOK'S ARRANGEMENTS 
 
 FOE 
 
 PALESTINE TOUES 
 
 For the Season of 1888-89. 
 
 Available for one or more passengers TO TRAVEL INDEPEN- 
 DENTLY ANY DATE, or for Personally Conducted Parties 
 at fixed dates. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 For some years past we have had diiScuIties in preparing definite pro- 
 grammes for the Spring Palestine Tours to appear early in the Autumn, 
 to enable intending travellers to study them out and make their 
 preliminary arrangements. These have chiefly arisen either through 
 quarantine regulations, political or military troubles, or the probable 
 alterations in the services of the chief Steamship Companies controlling 
 the traflic in the Mediterranean and the Levant. Fortunately, however, 
 this year we have neither quarantine nor political nor military troubles 
 to consider, but we have diflBculty in connection with the Steamboat 
 Services. The opening of the through line of railway from Calais to 
 Constantinople will, when in full operation, entirely revolutionize the 
 passenger traffic between England and the Orient, and there is no doubt 
 it will cause the Austrian Lloyds and other administrations to con- 
 siderably alter or reduce their old-established services, as it is quite 
 certain that a considerable number of those who have been in the habit 
 of going year after year vid, the old routes will wish to take the new 
 railway in preference to the sea ; and we also expect that this new 
 railway communication will very considerably increase the numbers, 
 especially of ladies, who wiU now feel that they can visit the Orient 
 without having to endure long sea voyages ; we say endure, because, 
 
unfortunately, to many the sea voyage is a dreaded one, although to 
 others it is enjoyable and preferred to the long railway journeys. 
 
 With a view of ascertaining exactly what arrangements are necessary 
 to be made for the accommodation and comfort of our travellers, Mr. 
 J. M. Cook, our managing partner, has been to Constantinople by the 
 new railway route, and these introductory notes are being dictated by 
 him at Vienna on his return journey. 
 
 We do not think it advisable to show the railway route for the out- 
 ward journey to the East for the ensuing Spring season ; but as we 
 naturally suppose passengers will want to have the option of returning 
 from Constantinople via Philippopolis, Sophia, Belgrade, Vienna, &c., 
 we shall be prepared to quote fares giving them the facilities for doing so, 
 or to book for the tours shown on page 36. At the present date there is a 
 little uncertainty respecting the steamboat services. The Austrian 
 Lloyds have withdrawn their weekly service between Constantinople 
 and Alexandria and their fortnightly service between Alexandria and 
 Beyrout ; but it is most likely the latter will be resumed before the 
 commencement of the travelling season between Egypt and Palestine. 
 There is also an uncertainty as to the service via Varna and the Danube : 
 it is probable that it will be weekly, instead of twice a week as at the 
 present time. We wish it, therefore, to be understood that the whole of 
 the arrangements of the steamboat services shown in this pamphlet- 
 programme are liable to alterations. 
 
 We have no longer any difficulty in fixing the dates of Palestine tours 
 to accord with the Nile service, as we have made ourselves masters of 
 that matter by building our own steamers, specially adapted for the 
 First-class Tourist Service on the Nile. These steamers have been 
 built in accordance with the latest improvements in marine archi- 
 tecture, and especially constructed with the view of meeting the 
 requirements of the traffic on the Nile, based upon our experience of 
 the past 20 years, and we have every confidence in this new service 
 being fully appreciated by the travelling public. Full particulars of 
 the Nile Steamboat Service will be found in the special pamphlet 
 published for that purpose, but the dates of the departures of the 
 steamers from Cairo to the First Cataract will be given in this 
 pamphlet-programme, and it will be seen that the departures are fixed 
 so as to harmonise with the best dates for visitii% Palestine. At the 
 present time there is not anything in the position of political or 
 military affairs in Egypt to interfere in the shghtest degree with 
 travellers between the Mediten-anean and the First Cataract on the 
 Nile. The native Egyptians are most anxious to see travellers, to receive 
 all the money from them they possibly can, and no one need hesitate on 
 
the ground of the slightest fear of trouble with the native inhabitants, 
 and we have no doubt that a very considerable number of travellers will 
 be induced to visit the Nije during, the coming season. With respect to 
 cholera or epidemic of any description, we wish it to be clearly 
 understood by all intending travellers to Egypt and Palestine, that 
 to the present date there have been no cases of any description in 
 either of those countries, therefore intending travellers need not 
 hesitate about completing their arrangements for their contemplated 
 tours to either Egypt or Palestine. The only risk that has to be 
 run is the probabihty of inconvenience or delay through any quarantine 
 regulations which the Sanitary Department may consider it advisable 
 to continue or put into operation during the early part of 1889. 
 This is a matter which we cannot control or provide against, and 
 therefore any delay or expenses arising through such regulations, 
 should they be put in force, will have to be borne by the travellers. 
 
 In presenting to the public the following programmes and itineraries 
 of arrangements for visiting Palestine, Syria, &c., we wish to impress 
 upon all intending travellers the fact that the arrangements shown in 
 this pamphlet for the season of 1888-89 have been carefully revised 
 and amended in accordance with the ezperience of past years and in 
 accordance with the new and extended facilities we are in the position 
 to carry out. 
 
 In November, 1867, the first public announcement appeared in our 
 Programmes of Special Tours to Palestine. Prior to that date, Palestine, 
 so far as travelling in it was concerned, had been a sealed book except 
 to a comparatively few wealthy noblemen and distinguished students, 
 who had visited it at great expense and considerable risk for the purpose 
 of studying the Biblical and natural history of the country. 
 
 Since that date, through the great facilities we have been able to 
 organise and put into operation, about 9,000 travellers have visited 
 Palestine under our arrangements. The success of this enterprise has 
 justified us in incurring large monetary liabilities in a country not con- 
 sidered particularly safe for ordinary investments, and we have at the 
 present time the largest and lest stock of camp equipments to he found in 
 the country, offices, stores, &c., and the only really good landaus working 
 between Jaffa and Jerusalem. 
 
 Those who have visited the Bast, and have had to make their own 
 arrangements from point to point, will be perfectly aware from their experi- 
 ence, that it is much better to enter into a contract at any of our offices for 
 the entire expense of their journey, than to run the risks that have to be 
 run in arranging with dragomans of the country. 
 
 We, as a responsible Enghsh firm, take upon ourselves the entire legal 
 
and monetary responsibility, and thus give an assurance to the travellers 
 that, should anything arise to compel them to have to ma.ke claims for 
 repayments, we are not only in a position to meet such claims, but also 
 that it is well known we should deal fairly and equitably with any claim 
 which might arise. The fact of this being well understood by the general 
 travelling public could not be more fully demonstrated than it was during 
 the season 1878-79, when great doubts existed in the minds of most 
 travellers as toi whether they would be able to visit Palestine or not, 
 during which season we conveyed about three-foarths of all the travellers 
 through Palestine ; and the fact that under our arrangements we con- 
 veyed through Palestine more than four-fifths of the total English and 
 American visitors to the country during the past seven seasons, is the 
 strongest testimonial that could possibly be given of the manner in 
 which we conduct our Palestine business. 
 
 The season of 1881-82 was distinguished beyond all previous seasons, 
 not only for the number visiting Palestine but also for the class of 
 visitors. We had the pleasure of having to provide tent and travelling 
 arrangements for about 500 travellers, including several select parties, 
 through the Sinai tic Desert. At one period of the season we had over 
 SOO horses and mules in use for the conveyance of the first-class 
 travellers under our arrangements, which included, besides many well- 
 known and distinguished gentlemen, five Bishops and several Canons 
 and Deans of the Church of England. 
 
 Mr. John M. Cook (our Managing Partner), during his stay in Jerusalem, 
 was called upon by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, Noel Temple Moore, 
 Esq., at a few days' notice, to make all the necessary arrangements for 
 the conveyance through Palestine and Syria of their Eoyal Highnesses 
 Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales and party. We need 
 scarcely say that we felt honoured by the appointment, and that every- 
 thing that could possibly be provided to insure the comfort and pleasure 
 of the sons of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales was provided, and we have 
 the satisfaction of knowing that our efforts not only proved successful 
 but were thoroughly appreciated, not only by the Royal Princes and 
 their friends who accompanied them but also by H.R.H. the Prince 
 of Wales. The arrangements were carried out under the personal 
 superintendence of Mr. F. H. Cook, who has travelled over every route 
 in the Desert, Palestine, and Syria (including Moab as far east as 
 Meshita) likely to be traversed by travellers, and who had the honour 
 of spending 40 days with the Royal party, and had also the honour, 
 through the special firman granted by the Sultan for the Royal party, 
 to enter the Mosque at Hebron (see Palestine Exploration Society's 
 Report for October), a favour which had only three times before been 
 
granted to Christians, viz., on the occasions of the visits of H.E.H. 
 the Prince of Wales in 1862, the Marquis of Bute in 1866, and of 
 H.E.H. the Crown Prince of Prussia in 1869. 
 
 It is not our custom to pubhsh anything in the form of testimonials, 
 but we think this is one of those special occasions which will justify us 
 in so doing, and in recording the testimony we have received through 
 the following extracts from a letter addressed to us by the Eev. Canon 
 Dalton, M.A., C.M.G., Governor to the Princes Albert Victor and 
 George. 
 
 " Mablboeough House, Pail Mall, 
 
 " September 20th, 1882. 
 "Deas Sies, Extkact. 
 
 " All the arrangements made for the convenience of the two Princes and their 
 companions during their forty days' stay in the Holy Land gave their Ro^ 
 Highnesses and every memher of the party the utmost satisfaction. Mr. F. H. 
 Cook, whose company we enjoyed the greater part of the time, and Mr. Ward, 
 your agent or representative at Jerusalem, were both most indefatigable in 
 doing everything they possibly could to conduce to the success of the expedi- 
 tion. We went over nearly six hundred miles, and some of the day's marches 
 were longer than so large a party usually accomplishes. But what was de- 
 signed was always carried out, spite of weather and other drawbacks, and we 
 owe you every thanks for the energy and promptitude with which each difficulty 
 as it arose was always faced and overcome. 
 
 "Believe me, dear Sirs, 
 
 " Yours very faithfully, 
 (Signed) "JOHN N. DALTON." 
 
 Copy of Letter from Feancis Kitollts, Esq., C.B. 
 " Abeegeldie Castle, Ballatee, 
 
 " Abebbeenshiee, September 27, 1882. 
 " Sies, 
 
 "Now that Prince Albert Victor and Prince George have returned to 
 England, I am desired by His Boyal Highness the Prince of Wales to thank 
 you for the arrangements which you made in connection with their visit to 
 Palestine, and to inform you that they gave every satisfaction. 
 
 " I am, Sirs, your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) "FRANCIS KNOLLYS." 
 
 The above testimonials are specially gratifying, as they prove that 
 Her Britannic Majesty's Consul was justified in intrusting such im- 
 portant arrangements to us. 
 
 We also have pleasure in calling attention to the following letter we 
 received from the late General Gordon, whom we were instructed to 
 accompany from Cairo to Korosko, en route to Khartoum. The General 
 also expressed his personal thanks to our representative who accompanied 
 him : — 
 
 " EoBOSEO, February Isi, 1884. 
 
 "Gentlemek, — Before leaving for Berber I would wish to express to you 
 my own and Lieut.-Colonel Stewart's thanks for the admirable manner in 
 which we have been treated while on your steamers. Your agents have also 
 
on every occasion shown themselves kind and ohliging, and have in every way 
 assisted us to the best of their ability. . i . 
 
 " Hoping that I may perhaps again have the pleasure of placing myself under 
 your guidance, 
 
 " I remain, ever yours truly, 
 
 "C. E. GORDON, 
 " Major- General and Governor-General." 
 
 In addition to the usual Palestine business of the spring season of 
 1882, and of the above-mentioned distinguished visitors, we were called 
 upon by the Pilgrimage Committee of France to undertake the convey- 
 ance from Marseilles to Caifa, and thence vid Samaria to Jerusalem and 
 Jaffa and back to Marseilles, of a Catholic Pilgrimage consisting of 
 1,007 pilgrims gathered together from all parts of France, and composed 
 chiefly of members of families of the old Catholic nobility of France, 
 including a number of Marquises, Counts, Countesses, &c., and a large 
 number of Abbes and other dignitaries of the Church of Rome. As 
 soon as it became known that the pilgrimage would consist of so large a 
 number, everybody in Palestine who knew the country and the difficulties 
 to be encountered declared that it was impossible to move such a mass 
 of people, especially during the heat of May and commencement of June. 
 AU the chief authorities in Jerusalem predicted frightful disasters and the 
 loss of many lives ; the French Consul, finding he could not induce the 
 Committee to give up the idea, iinally telegraphed to M. Freycinet, 
 Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he would not be answerable for the safety 
 of the pilgrims. The minister forwarded the telegram to us, and we replied 
 respectfully, but firmly, that he might rely upon us carrying out what 
 we had undertaken, and assuring His Excellency that our Managing 
 Partner had spent some time in Palestine for the purpose of seeing that 
 our arrangements were as complete as they could be, and that we had 
 every confidence in our staff of representatives being able to carry out 
 the arrangements, providing the Committee and the Pilgrims adhered to 
 the original contract and assisted us by having perfect organisation 
 amongst themselves. The results fully justified our statements, and 
 the Jerusalem officials, when they saw the immense cavalcade enter the 
 city from Nablous on May 12th, exclaimed to our managers that we 
 knew our power and facilities better than they did, and that we had 
 accomplished something approaching a miracle. We may be pardoned 
 a little pride in boasting that such a number (being double the number 
 we originally undertook to provide for) could be conveyed through such 
 a country, and the last of them arrive at Jerusalem within an hour or 
 two of the agreed time, and the whole of them leave Jaffa exactly in 
 accordance with our contract and programme, with the marvellous fact 
 that, although many of them were over 70 years of age, others confirmed 
 
invalids, and all travelling through a difficult country in the heat of 
 summer, under great religious excitement, that daring the twenty-seven 
 days the 1,007 were in the country only one death occurred, and three 
 or four pilgrims were bruised through the upsetting of a wagon on 
 a rough road. Under the regular averages of mortality we naturally 
 expected that a number of deaths must occur. 
 
 The pilgi-image left Marseilles on April 27th in two large steamers, 
 the Guadaloupe and Picardie, which we specially chartered from the 
 Transatlantic S.S. Company ; they arrived at Calfa according to 
 contract, and the whole 1,007 were landed hy us in small boats in less 
 than two hours ; and on the completion of the pilgrimage they were 
 embarked again at Jaffa in about three hours, thus completing most 
 successfully the largest undertaking of the kind on record. 
 
 In November, 1882, Mr. John M. Cook, our Managing Partner, left 
 Egypt for a hurried and unexpected visit to Jerusalem. On the date of 
 his arrival he was requested by His Excellency Eaouf Pacha, Governor 
 of Jerusalem, to make the necessary arrangements for the journey of 
 General Wallace, author of " Ben-Hur," the American Ambassador to 
 Constantinople, as a guest of His Majesty the Sultan, who wished to 
 leave Jerusalem the following morning for Hebron and the short tour 
 round about Jerusalem. The Ambassador carried with him a firman 
 from the Sultan for admission to the Mosque at Hebron. At a few 
 hours' notice the arrangements were made, and the party, consisting 
 of the Ambassador, His Excellency Eaouf Pacha, Dr. S. Merrill, 
 United States Consul in Jerusalem, the American Vice-Consul, accom- 
 panied by Mrs. Wallace, her sister, and Mrs. Merrill, and escorted 
 by twenty cavalry and eighty infantry, left Jerusalem under the 
 personal supervision of Mr. John M. Cook, who accompanied the 
 Ambassador and his party throughout the journey, and who thus also 
 had the opportunity of entering the Sacred Mosque. We can only 
 hope that inasmuch as a firman has now been granted to Christians 
 on several occasions since 1862, that the time is not far distant when 
 aU ordinary travellers to Palestine will be allowed the same poivilege. 
 
 During the seasons of 1882-83 and 1883-84, when considerable doubts 
 were entertained by travellers as to the advisability of visitibg Palestine, 
 we were again favoured with the arrangements of almost every traveller 
 of position or distinction who visited the country during that period, 
 including a number of very distinguished officers of the British Army 
 who obtained short leaves of absence from Egypt : further proof of 
 the fact that all classes of travellers know well that in times of doubt or 
 trouble we are prepared to incur risk and expense, and carry out our 
 arrangements with perfect satisfaction. 
 
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 During the season 1883-84 we were honoured with instructions for 
 three important parties through the Sinaitic Desert and Palestine, with 
 Professor Hull's geological survey party in the interest of the Palestine 
 Exploration Society (to which Society's Report for April, 1884, we 
 have pleasure in referring to the testimony as to the manner in which 
 we carried out all we undertook). The second party was that of 
 Colonel Colville, who went out to make a special survey from the 
 Gulf of Akabah to the southern end of the Dead Sea ; and the third, 
 His Grace the Duke of Sutherland and party, who went to •* survey 
 the land " from Beyrout by the coast to Caifa, and thence to Galilee, 
 Damascus, &c., &(•-., all of whom thanked us for our arrangements, 
 and expressed their great satisfaction at the way everything was carried 
 out by our representatives. 
 
 During the season of 1884-85 we were again favoured with the 
 patronage of nearly the whole of the travellers passing through 
 Palestine, including five royal parties, each travelling with their 
 separate encampments and under special arrangements, namely : — 
 
 Prince "Waldemar of Denmark and suite ; 
 
 Princes Charles and Oscar of Sweden and Norway ; 
 
 Prince Francis, Grand Duke of Austria, and suite ; 
 
 Prince Louis Bonaparte and suite ; 
 
 The Duke of Genoa and suite ; 
 And His Grace the Duke of Sutherland and family, who, for the second 
 time, travelled through Palestine under our arrangements, and expressed 
 themselves more than satisfied with the manner in which we had met 
 their requirements. 
 
 At the end of 1885, from the small number of enquiries for Palestine 
 arrangements, we were led to suppose that the spring season of 1886 
 would be comparatively a failure, and we gave instructions accordingly 
 to the Managers of our business in Palestine so that they should not be 
 incurring unnecessary expenses, and advised the Directors of the 
 Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company that we were afraid they 
 need not expect the usual numbers on the Syrian Coast — and our 
 Managing Partner left for India strongly impressed with the idea that 
 Palestine for 1886 would be almost deserted— but in January and 
 February, 1886, the enquiries increased beyond our previous experience, 
 and instead of there being comparatively no visitors to Palestine the 
 records shew the largest numbers at any rate for the previous four years, 
 viz., 1,013, out of which 810 were under our arrangements, and a very 
 large proportion of this number going through the country. Such a 
 sudden influx caused a great strain upon every member of our staff 
 connected with the Palestine business, and caused us great pecuniary loss 
 
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 from the fact that very high rates had to be paid for horses and mules, 
 through the Turkish GoTemment having very recently purchased very 
 large numbers for military purposes, and through us not seeing our way 
 to secure them as usual some time in advance of the dates they were 
 required ; still, with one or two exceptions, we have the satisfaction of 
 knowing that this extraordinary number of travellers passed through 
 the country perfectly satisfied with the arrangements and the way they 
 were can-ied out. 
 
 In addition to these unexpected and unprecedented numbers we had 
 in the month of August the honour of an-anging for and conveying 
 H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, H.R.H. Prince George of Wales, and 
 111 OflBcers and others of the Mediterranean Fleet, who travelled under 
 our arrangements from Jaffa to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Jericho, &c., 
 back to Jaffa, and from Beyrout to Damascus, Baalbec, &c., back to 
 Beyrout. And in addition to the testimonials given by H.R.H. the 
 Duke of Edinburgh to our representative and the dragoman who 
 travelled with them, our Managing Partner has been honoured by a 
 special personal letter, thanking him for the way in which the arrange- 
 ments were carried out to the entire satisfaction of their Royal 
 Highnesses and the Ofl&cers of the Fleet. 
 
 During the season of 1886-87, the total number of travellers in 
 Palestine were not quite equal to 1885, but the numbers of what we tenn 
 the long tour passengers, viz., those taking the entire tour of the country, 
 were much larger than we have ever experienced. 
 
 We had at one date no less than 21 distinct private parties under 
 canvas going through the country, most of them being travellers of dis- 
 tinction and position — several of them extending their time to between 
 eight and nine weeks between Jaffa and Beyrout. They were fortunately 
 favoured with most exceptional weather, and nearly the whole of the 
 travellers passed through the country without experiencing the sUghtest 
 diflBcnlty through rain or bad weather. 
 
 During the past season of 1887-8 we were again favoured with the 
 arrangements of a very large percentage of the travellers visiting 
 Palestine, including a considerable number of private parties travelling 
 with our dragomans independently through the country, several members 
 of the nobility, and a distinguiehed Russian party to the banks of the 
 Euphrates, Palmyra, &c., &c., and before this pamphlet is in circulation 
 Mr. T. A. (Bert) Cook will be travelling in Syria and Palestine personally 
 conducting Their Imperial Highnessfs the Grand Duke and Duchess 
 Sergius and the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, accompanied by a number 
 of Russian ladies and gentlemen connected with the Court, and the 
 necessary number of personal servants. We have been honoured by 
 
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 this distinguislied party through the strong recommendations of their 
 relative H.E.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. We have also arranged for 
 several private parties of distinguished travellers from England during 
 the Autumn season of 1888 — although we do not advise visiting Palestine 
 in the Autumn — and we have arranged for what is expected to be a 
 very large Pilgrimage party of members of the Latin Church from 
 all parts of the United States to Palestine early in the Spring 
 season of 1889, for which we understand at least 100 pilgrims are now 
 enrolled. 
 
 With the above facts we may be pardoned expressing the confident 
 opinion that our arrangements for travelling through Palestine are so 
 well known and appreciated, and stand out so superior to any other 
 mode of visiting the country, that we may rely upon always conveying 
 the bulk of the passengers who visit that country, and whenever special 
 troubles or difficulties are likely to arise we find that almost every 
 passenger of every grade entrust themselves to our protection. We 
 also had the honour in 1885 of arranging for the visit of Dr. Adler, 
 Chief Eabbi, and have arranged also the visits of other distinguished 
 travellers of different religious persuasions, and at their request have 
 arranged to meet their views by at any time placing at their disposal 
 a dragoman of their own persuasion, and supplying them with any 
 special description of food and special mode of cooking they may 
 require. 
 
 We wish it to be clearly understood by all intending travellers to 
 Palestine that we have our own salaried staff of assistants and repre- 
 sentatives at every point where it is necessary for them to be placed, 
 and that all travellers under our arrangements are entitled to their advice 
 and assistance free of any cost beyond the fares paid for their journey. 
 
 In the bay of Alexandria, our resident representatives meet every 
 steamer with our own boatmen to take ashore all passengers booked 
 under our arrangements, to pass them through the Custom House, and to 
 embark all passengers leaving Alexandria for European or Syrian ports. 
 
 At Cairo, the managers of our Egyptian business, with a qualified 
 staff of assistants, render all the assistance necessary, not only to the 
 passengers for the Nile steamers and dahabeahs, but also to passengers 
 en route to Palestine, &c. ; sending, when necessary, a representative 
 from Cairo to Port Said, to see the passengers comfortably on board 
 the steamers for the Syrian Coast. 
 
 At Jaffa, the manager of our Palestine business, or his assistants, 
 meet every steamer, to land and embark our passengers at that much- 
 dreaded port ; and from the time travellers under our arrangements land 
 in Palestine, until their departure, they are under the supervision of 
 
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 our manager and his competent staff of assistants, and in no case are 
 they left to the tender mercies of dragomans or Bedouins. 
 
 The dragomans who assist are selected with the greatest possible care 
 by our manager, who has a thorough knowledge of the abilities of aU the 
 dragomans in the country ; and he has our instructions to select the best 
 men who offer their services, and under no circumstances does he engage 
 a second time a dragoman who cannot produce a satisfactory certificate 
 from all the members of his previous party. He also requires it to be 
 certified that horses, tents, food, and equipments have been fairly 
 supplied in accordance with our printed announcements. And in the 
 event of disputes arising between our travellers and our employes, they 
 are at once referred to the nearest consul of the country to which the 
 complaining travellers belong, whose decision is to be taken as final. 
 
 During the seasons from 1880 to 1888, our Managing Partner, 
 Mr. John M. Cook, has spent a considerable time in Palestine for the 
 special purpose of ascertaining what improvements could be made in the 
 general arrangements, camp equipments, &c., and his three sons, Messrs. 
 F. H., T. A., and E. E. Cook, have travelled either with passengers or 
 independently over every route and district that English travellers are 
 ever likely to wish to visit ; we have thus obtained a most perfect personal 
 knowledge of the country and the requirements of the travellers, and 
 have been constantly altering our arrangements and improving them in 
 accordance with such experience. We are frequently adding considerably 
 to our camp equipments by large additions of new tents and their 
 necessary appointments, and also by sending out a number of new 
 English saddles, bridles, &c., so that intending travellers may feel 
 assured that whatever complaints they may have heard respecting 
 native saddles, bridles, &c., used by others, that Thos. Cook & Son have 
 a good stock of everything that is required for the comfort of the 
 passenger. 
 
 The horses we employ are the best to be had in Syria, and our 
 contracts for horses and mules are made direct with the sheikhs of the 
 muleteers of the different districts. 
 
 The provisions supplied are of the best possible description, and we 
 have received many commendatory testimonials as to the skill displayed 
 by our cooks whilst in camp, but we have never yet received a single 
 complaint against them. 
 
 For our travellers, hotel accommodation is provided at Jaffa, 
 Jerusalem, Jericho, Damascus, and Beyrout. This prevents the necessity 
 of the passengers camping out in the event of bad weather, but leaves them 
 the option of camping, providing the weather is good, and the majority of 
 the party prefer camp to the hotels. To enable us to give this special 
 
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 advantage to onr travellers we have had to enter into special contracts 
 with hotel proprietors, and to rent on our own responsibility the house 
 known as the Bishop's residence, in Jerusalem ; but we make no extra 
 charge for this. 
 
 We need scarcely say that the hotel accommodation, especially of 
 Jerusalem, is not equal to what we should wish to secure for first-class 
 travellers, but we have never yet seen that we were justified in in- 
 curring the great loss which would have attended the establi^hment of a 
 really good hotel in Jerusalem. The numbers of visitors increase every 
 year, and it is possible that under good management a fairly good hotel 
 might now be made to pay its expenses, and we are glad to find that 
 capitalists are now building a good hotel, which will most likely be 
 completed during the summer of 1889. 
 
 PRIVATE LANDAUS BETWEEN JAFFA AND 
 JERUSALEM. 
 
 We have had built in Switzerland and sent out to Jaffa seven first- 
 class private Landaus, similar to the best used on the mountain roads 
 of Switzerland, which can be engaged on special terms for ladies, or 
 any who prefer a carriage to horseback, between Jaffa and Jerusalem. 
 These are the only comfortable carriages to be found in Palestine. 
 
 Our Programmes and Itineraries embrace all chief parts of 
 
 THE HOLY LAND, THE DESERT, MOAB, HAURAN, 
 THE LEBANON, PALMYRA, ASIA MINOR, &c., 
 
 The routes of which are shown in the geographical order, but can be 
 varied, curtailed, or extended as desired. Or, in accordance with special 
 arrangements and quotations given, individual travellers or parties in 
 any numbers from one upwards can travel with the greatest freedom 
 and security under our arrangements, but, of course, the fares for 
 travelling, as private individuals or in select parties, are higher than the 
 fares advertised for personally conducted parties ; the fares for travelling 
 through Palestine being regulated on a sliding scale in accordance with 
 numbers from one to ten. For ten and upwards the lowest scale of 
 charges comes into operation. 
 
 We may here state that, although we have gained great notoriety 
 by the publicly advertised personally conducted parties travelUng 
 under our arrangements, it is a matter of fact that considerably the 
 larger portion of onr travellers through Palestine during the past twelve 
 years have consisted of private parties or individual travellers. Person- 
 ally conducted parties are specially provided for, and in their behalf 
 backsheesh, admission • to mosques, and all chief incidentals are paid by 
 our conductor. 
 
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 Fares are given on pages 25 and 46 ot this pamphlet for parties 
 travelling under fixed regulations, but for small private parties, travelling 
 independently, we are prepared to give quotations for any route the 
 travellers may select. 
 
 During the past few years, as a rule, the personally conducted parties, 
 so called, have not assumed the character of "parties" until either 
 leaving Italy or Cairo. We find, from experience, that the majority 
 of passengers booked under the personally conducted arrangements 
 are gathered together from different parts of the globe, have their 
 own special points they want to visit en route, do not require the services 
 of a conductor in passing through Europe, and generally come together 
 for the first time either on the Mediterranean steamers or in Cairo ; still 
 we advertise fixed dates, and the condtictor travels in accordance with 
 those dates for the special assistance of any who may require his services. 
 But we wish it to be clearly understood that any passengers bookiug 
 under the personally conducted party arrangements wishing to take any 
 other route through Europe than the route shown in the programme, 
 can be supplied by us with travelling and hotel tickets, and all the 
 necessary arraEgements made for any route the passenger may wish to 
 take, and the journey can be broken at any point of interest en route. 
 Of course these facHities are subject to rectification of fares, according to 
 the route selected. 
 
 We supply tickets for every route that can be selected to or through 
 Europe, Egypt, Palestine, &c. We book our passengers by every line of 
 steamers on the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas, and by the new 
 Oriental Eailways between Constantinople and Vienna, &c. ; but we 
 advise all intending travellers to the East to decide as early as possible 
 upon the route and line of steamers they intend to take, and to give 
 as much notice as possible, so that we can secure the best berths vacant 
 at the time the passenger pays the deposit or fares. 
 
 PERSONALLY CONDUCTED SPBING TOURS TO 
 PALESTINE. 
 
 During the Spring season of 1889 there will be at least four personally 
 conducted parties, arranged so as to afford facilities for combining the 
 Nile with three of them, or to be taken, without the Kile, for Palestine 
 only. These tours, under personal escort, will be commenced from 
 London in January, and they will be a fortnight apart, in the hopes of 
 avoiding overcrowding on the Syrian coast steamers. 
 
 Instead of, as in past years, combining two or more parties to meet 
 at Cairo, we now arrange for the working of the Nile steamers to 
 harmonise with the fortnightly Syrian coast steamers. Any passengers 
 booked under these arrangements wishing to leave Cairo and to go in 
 
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 advance of the general parties to Palestine, there falling in with the 
 pai'ty according to the date of the programme, can do so by giving the 
 necessary notice at our Cairo oiEce. 
 
 SPECIAL STEAMERS BETWEEN BETB.OTJT AND 
 CONSTAT) TINOPLE. 
 
 With a view of doing our best to obviate the overcrowding of the 
 Austrian Lloyds steamers, of which there have been such serious com- 
 plaints for several years past, we took upon ourselves the responsibility 
 of guaranteeing to the Austrian Lloyds a suflBcient number of passengers 
 to justify them authorising us to announce two Special Steamers from 
 Beyrout for Constantinople during the past season, thus making a weekly 
 service during the month of April ; and, although we had not quite 
 the requisite number to repay either the Austrian Lloyds Company or 
 ourselves, we have again arranged for the Special Steamers during April, 
 1889. The departures, therefore, from Beyrout will be April 2nd, 
 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th. A reference to the itineraries of the 
 Personally Conducted Parties will show that we arrange so that the 
 passengers by the Five Weeks' Tours in Palestine will be on the Special 
 Steamers leaving Beyrout April 9th and 23rd ; and, as there will be a 
 certain number of berths on those Steamers for independent passengers, 
 we strongly advise all who possibly can to fix their dates as early as 
 possible, and secure their berths for those Special Steamers. (The 
 Steamers will call at Smyrna but not at Cyprus and Rhodes.) 
 
 FOB THE DESERT, SINAI, PETRA, MOAB, THE 
 HAURAN, PALMYRA, ASIA MINOR, &c., 
 
 And for more remote districts, we are prepared to make the necessary 
 arrangements at fares covering all ordinary expenses and demands. 
 These fares will be quoted for one or more passengers, upon intending 
 travellers giving us full particulars of the exact districts they wish to 
 visit and the time to be occupied. 
 
 During the season of 1880 we had six distinct parties through the 
 Desert, one of which was specially organised to enable us to send a 
 member of the third generation of the Cook family for the special object 
 of enabling him to report to us, and compile a correct itinerary of each 
 day's journey through the Desert, which will be found on pages 54 to 56 
 of this pamphlet. We have no hesitation in advising any who wish to 
 take that route, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that two 
 important parties under our arrangements passed through the Sinaitic 
 Desert during January and February, 1884, one of them visiting Petra, 
 and that early in 1887 one of the largest private parties we have had 
 visited Sinai, &c., in perfect safety. 
 
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 OUR CHIEF STAETING POINTS 
 
 From -which Through Fares can be quoted are Melbourne, Bombay, 
 Calcutta, New Yorky Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Liverpool, 
 Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Paris, Greneva, 
 Lucerne, Cologne, Brussels, Nice, Rome, Naples, Milan, Florence, Vienna, 
 Malta, and any of the Mediterranean and Adriatic ports. The fares to 
 be arranged at our Chief Office, Ludgate Circus, London, or through any 
 of our Branch Offices, as on page 100 of this programme. 
 
 OUR CHIEF STEAMBOAT LINES 
 
 Are those of the Peninsular and Oriental, from Gravesend, Malta, Venice, 
 Ancona, or Brindisi ; the Austrian Lloyd's, from Trieste or Brindisi ; 
 the Rubattino, from Genoa, Leghorn, or Naples ; and the Messageries 
 Maritimes, from Marseilles. From Cairo we can issue tickets for 
 aU lines from Alexandria or Port Said to Jaffa, Beyrout, Cyprus, 
 Salonica, or any other port. ' For personally conducted parties, and for 
 others who make the circle of the Mediterranean ports of the Levant, and 
 take in the Piraeus, Constantinople, and Cyprus, no line is so convenient 
 as the Austrian Lloyd's, and we prefer, as far as possible, to start all from 
 Brindisi, and return to Trieste — the best route for Vienna when the 
 Danube is closed. For those who desire to take the Danube route in 
 returning, provision can be made to go from Smyrna to Syra, the Pirieus, 
 Athens, and then from the Piraeus to Constantinople. But this cannot 
 be before the latter end of April, on the resumption of the spring service on 
 the Danube. We can book at any time by the new railway route from 
 Constantinople via Sophia and Belgrade. The sailings of the Austrian 
 Lloyd's and other steamers in the Mediterranean are subject to changes. 
 The latest information on this point will be found in "Cook's Continental 
 Time Tables and Tourist Handbook," published monthly, with eight 
 sectional maps. Price Is. ■ 
 
 PERSONAL MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION. 
 
 Mr. John M. Cook, our Managing Partner, who has spent the 
 greater portion of the last eight winters in the East, is specially occupied 
 this season in Egypt, where he will be found on the Nile from October 
 to the end of 1888, after which he or one of his sons will be personally! 
 superintending the arrangements in Palestine and Syria. 
 
 Our representatives will, as usual, be stationed at Alexandria to assist 
 our travellers in landing and through the Customs, &c. Our Egyptiali 
 manager, assisted by a competent staff, will conduct the business of our 
 office at Cairo and on the Nfle. At Jaffa or Jerusalem our Palestine 
 
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 manager will generally be found, and he will be assisted at the port 
 by our own assistants and boatmen, who are engaged to render aid in 
 landing, &c. Our office, opposite the Jerusalem Hotel, will be our centre 
 of operations at Jaffa. 
 
 At Jerusalem, inside the Jaffa Gate, we have established our own 
 Office and Eeading Room, in charge of one of our chief representatives, 
 at which office every information and .assistance will be given to our 
 travellers, and all travellers to Palestine are invited to make free use 
 of the office and reading room, which will be supplied with a selection of 
 English and other newspapers. 
 
 At Beyrout we have established our own office close to the Hotel 
 d'Orient, which, Uke all our other offices, will be in charge of our own 
 salaried representatives, and at which passengers may be booked for 
 short tours from Beyrout to Baalbec, Palmyra, Damascus, &c., for the 
 long tours through the country, for any line of steamers they may wish 
 to take from Beyrout through the Levant and Mediterranean, or up the 
 Danube, &c., &c. 
 
 OUE PRESENT POSITION IN PALESTINE 
 
 Is more favourable for the promotion of this responsible work than 
 it has ever been. We offer to relieve our travellers of all anxieties 
 relative to contracts with irresponsible Arabs, Syrians, Greeks, Egyptians, 
 or others. Under a fall sense of the obligations of a home contract, 
 subject to British law and equity, we are prepared to accept with the large 
 amounts of money necessary for an extended Eastern Tour, involving many 
 sub-contracts, the general obligations of a primary contract. We, having 
 confidence in our representatives, are willing to incur at home the 
 obligations which so frequently fail in Palestine, through the financial 
 weakness or the immoral practices in which the dragoman class too often 
 indulge. Every season presents lamentable cases of failure, when tents 
 have to be sold to meet demands of travelling creditors, who have paid 
 money in advance, or stick by the way, unless reheved by premature- 
 payments. Before any party, under existing managements, left Eng- 
 land for Palestine, Mr. Thos. Cook had written freely on the subject, 
 and had advertised his pei'sonal tour of inspection and fixed the 
 date for his first party, and his confiding friends only waited for 
 his personal programme to announce their decision. Since that time 
 Mr. Cook qualified himself for the furtherance of this difficult work 
 by spending several seasons in the East, on the Nile, and in Palestine, 
 until .Egypt and Canaan have become as familiar to him as Scotland or 
 any part of Great Britain or the European continent. Our Managing 
 Pairtner, Mr. John M. Cook, has also visited Egypt many times, been 
 
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 up the Nile as far as Dongola, and has several times landed at Jaffa, 
 on ten occasions making a torn? of the districts south and east of 
 Jerusalem. Mr. P. H. Cook has spent the whole of three seasons in 
 the Desert, Palestine, Syria, &c., visiting every spot likely to be visited- 
 by ordinary travellers. Mr. T. A. Co'ok has been as far as Dongola ; 
 through the Sinaitic Desert, and through the beaten tracks of Palestine 
 and Syria, and Mr. E. B. Cook in addition to going up the Nile and 
 through Palestine has spent two seasons in Jerusalem. "We have 
 also initiated several of our Enghsh assistants into the work of our 
 Eastern offices, and they have returned to their respective posts of duty 
 at Cairo, Alexandria, Jaffa, Jerusalem, and Beyrout. Our own boatmen 
 will again be engaged, under our own flag, to meet our travellers at 
 Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout, relieve them of Arab rabble, uud" 
 conduct them through Custom House annoyances. 
 
 SPECIAL ABRANGEMEIfTS FOB BAGGAGE 
 
 Are made with the view to its safety in case of storms, inundations, 
 or swoUen streams. We supply waterproof covering to protect small 
 trunks, bags, &c. But at the same time it must be distinctly 
 understood that we cannot in any way hold ourselves responsible 
 for any damage that may arise to the luggqge, either through there 
 not being sufficient waterproof covering, or, in the event of sudden 
 storms and swollen streams, through the baggage being injured or lost. 
 . Sixty pounds of baggage is generally found to be ample for Palestine use, 
 and we convey that weight without extra charge ; but if passengers find 
 it necessary to encumber themselves with extra weight, they will be 
 charged so much per pound for its conveyance. 
 
 Surplas trunks, portmanteaus, &c., can be sent by steamboat from one 
 port to another, or returned direct to any of our offices to meet the 
 passenger on arrival. 
 
 GUIDE BOOKS. 
 
 We have had prepared at our own cost two volumes — one for Egypt, 
 the Nile, and the Desert, and the other for Palestine and Syria. These 
 two books contain maps specially prepared by W. & A. K. Johnston. 
 The one for Egypt is sold at 6s., and the one for Palestine at 7s. 6d. 
 post free. A new edition of the " Handbook for Palestine and Syria " 
 has been lately published. 
 
 Our Tours have given birth to quite a number of new books on the 
 Desert and Palestine. The great Tour of Professor Stkong and his 
 party in 1874 resulted in tbe preparation of one of the largest and 
 
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 finest maps we have seen of the Desert and Palestine, prepared from 
 actual survey ; their photographer, vrho took out his apparatus from 
 London, has produced a great variety of photos taken en route, v^hich 
 were exhibited in the Fine Art Department of the Centenniial 
 Exhibition at Philadelphia ; and we saw at Philadelphia two Idrge 
 and handsome volumes, one by Dr. Henry B. Eidgaway, D.D., 
 entitled " The Lord's Land," and the other by Dr. Fish, of Newark, New 
 Jersey, a thick volume, full of engravings, entitled " Bible Illustrations." 
 These gentlemen went out as explorers, and they have well sustained 
 their character and work. The map prepared by Professor Strong and 
 Mr. Ward, O.E., is worthy of universal acceptance by Bible students. 
 We always felt rather proud of that indefatigable party, who travelled 
 ten months under our arrangements, and these great works have 
 enhanced our esteem for them. Dr. Eidgaway's book is, like that of 
 Dr. Fish, profusely illustrated. 
 
 Dr. Philip Schatf, of the Bible House, New York, travelled with a 
 party of friends under our arrangements through the Sinaitic Desert, 
 Palestine, &c., and since his return has published a book entitled 
 "Through Bible Lands," which is one of the best descriptive books 
 we have ever read. Dr. Schaff's " Bible Dictionary " will also be found 
 a most serviceable work. , 
 
 "East of the , Jordan" is a valuable descriptive work, by Dr. Selah 
 Merrill, late United States Consul at Jerusalem, written when the author 
 was a member of the American Exploration Society. This excellent 
 work contains sixtyrnine illustrations from photographs or original 
 drawings, and a map. Dr. Merrill has made four different expeditions, 
 and in the volume under notice he gives at. length the journals of two of 
 these. Persona,! incidents enliven the narrative, and the illustrations are 
 fre^h and original. , 
 
 " Heth and Moab : Explorations in Palestine in 1881 and 1882." 
 This is one of the most recent works on this subject, by Claude Eeignier 
 Conder, E.E., published under the auspices of, the Palestine Exploration 
 Fund. Price 14s. 
 
 " Moutit Seir, Sinai, 'anS Western Palestine," by Professor Hull. 
 This wotk is 'the outconie of the geological expedition sent out by the 
 Palestine Exploration Fund in the autumn of 1883. Price 10s. 6d. 
 
 " G-ieanings , from sa Tour in Palestine and the East '* is an excellent 
 work by Canon Bell. Price 5s. 
 
 Messrs. S, Yirtue & ,Co. have published an excellent work on 
 Palestine, in four volumes, entitled " Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and 
 Egypt/'-edited by Col. Wilson, E.E., C.B., F.E.S., with the .co-operation 
 
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 of Canon Tristram, Dr, Merrill, Dr. Schaff, and others. The illustrations 
 are of the highest order, and the work, both, for the table and the 
 library, is worthy of its publishers. Th? price of each volume is 
 31s. 6d. 
 
 " Social Life in Egypt," by Stanley Lane-Poole, is a supplementaiy 
 volume to the preceding, and gives an excellent description of the oounti'y 
 and its people. Price 21s. 
 
 " Over the Holy Land," by the Eev. J. A. Wylie, LL.B., is an ex- 
 ceedingly interesting work, published by Messrs. Nisbet & Co., price 
 7s. 6d., illustrated. 
 
 " From Pharaoh to Fellah," by Moberly Bell, published by Wells, 
 Gardner, Darton & Co. Price 16s. 
 
 " Past and Present in the East," by the Eev. Harry Jones, is an 
 interesting work published by the Eeligious Tract Society. Price 5s. 
 
 " Haifa ; or Life in Modern Palestine," by Laurence Oliphant. 
 Price 7s. 6d. 
 
 Murray's " Holy Land, Syria, Palestine, &c.," 20s. ; Murray's 
 "Egypt," in two parts, 15s. ; Murray's " Turkey in Asia," 15s. All 
 these contain maps and plans. 
 
 Baedekee's " Handbook to Palestine," with maps and plans, pub- 
 lished at 20s., may be obtained at our Tourist Of&ces, Ludgate Circus. 
 
 Baedekee's " Lower Egypt," 15s., is one of the most complete and 
 most recent Guide Books to that country, containing elaborate geogra- 
 phical, historical, and ethnological notes, and is illustrated with 29 plans, 
 7 views, and 76 vignettes. 
 
 The public has given a hearty welcome to "Pen and Pencil Sketches 
 of Egypt and the Holy Land," and " Land of the Pharaohs," issued by 
 the Eeligious Tract Society, uniform with the same author's " Pen and 
 Pencil Sketches " of Switzerland, Italy, Spain, &c. 
 
 " Pictures from Bible Lands," also published by the EeHgious Tract 
 Society, is an interesting pictorial work, uniform with the above. 
 
 "Egypt, and the Wonders of the Land of the Pharaohs," by Wm. 
 Oxley, price 7s. 6d. 
 
 " Walks in Cairo," by Major Plunkett, E.E., is a very useful little 
 pamphlet. Price Is. 
 
 Arnold's "Turkish Grammar," 28. 6d., wUl be found most convenient 
 for passengers wishing to obtain a useful smattering of Turkish. 
 
 For those contemplating a visit to Cyprus we recommend Franz von 
 Loher's "Cyprus, Historical and Descriptive," which contains an 
 interesting description of the island, and two maps. It is published at 
 10s. 6d., and can be obtained at our Chief OfSce. 
 
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 We also recommend " Cyprus as I saw it in 1879," by Sir Samufel 
 Baker. Price 12s. 6d. 
 
 For further list of books, see tkird page of cover. 
 
 "With the view of making these Programmes as clear as possible, 
 we insert THEEE MAPS at the commencement of this pamphlet, 
 showing our principal routes. 
 
 THOS. COOK & SON. 
 Octoher, 1888. 
 
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 ITINERARIES AND FARES 
 
 OP 
 
 H^rsonally Cmtkdelf fatties 
 
 TO 
 
 LOWER EGYPT, THE NILE, & PALESTINE. 
 
 SPRING SEASOir, 1889. 
 
 N.B. — All Bates given in this Pamphlet Programme are subject to any 
 alterations that may be necessitated through Quarantine regulations, 
 alteration of Steamboat setvices, or other matters over which Thos. Cook 
 and Son have no control, and passengers will have to bear all extra expense 
 incurred through such regulations or circumstances. 
 
 In addition to the old-established Personally Conducted Parties through 
 Palestine taking the long tour of a month in the Holy Land, we have 
 arranged for two special parties, giving five weeks between Jaffa and 
 Beyrout, as per Itinerary on pages 34 and 35. One of these parties is 
 organised with a view of combining the Voyage to the First Cataract 
 of the NUe with Palestine, and also in the hope of dividing the numbers 
 of tourists wishing to leave Beyrout for Constantinople, &c., so as, if 
 possible, to avoid the annoying overcrowding of the steamers which has 
 occurred during the past few years. 
 
 We call special attention to the Itineraries for these parties, as being 
 the most interesting and attractive we offer to the travelling public. 
 
 All the personally conducted parties shown in the following Itineraries 
 are arranged so as to enable passengers to combine the Mle to the First 
 Cataract with any of the advertised dates for Palestine. 
 
 We have also arranged for short tour parties to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, 
 the Dead Sea, the Jordan, &c., &c. 
 
 For the Deseet, Sinai, Petea, Moab, the Hauean, Palmyra, 
 The Seven Chueches of Asia Minoe, and other more remote dis- 
 tricts and countries, we are ready to make all necessary arrangements 
 on terms covering all ordinary and extraordinary demands. Special 
 quotations will be given on apphcation at our Chief Oifices for any 
 description of tour, whether travelling singly or in parties. We can 
 provide tickets to start from any of the chief continental cities, and 
 although the following Itineraries are shown as commencing from 
 London, quotations can be given to commence and terminate at any 
 part of the Continent, and to combine a Continental Tour with the 
 Eastern Tour if desired. 
 
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 In order to show at a glance the spring arrangements for Personally 
 Conducted Tours, we give on the following pages Itineraries, with the 
 fare for each tour appended. 
 
 The following dates of departure and arrival at the chief places will 
 enable any who wish it to go in advance or make deviations, and fall in 
 with the parties, in accordance with sailings of steamers. Any wishing 
 to make a tour of Italy before embarkation for Alexandria, may have 
 tickets for that purpose, and join the parties at Brindisi, and any who 
 wish to go up the Nile in advance and join any of the Personally Con- 
 ducted Parties at Cairo can do so. 
 
 Iiyni=OE>T.A.lTT n^OTICE 
 
 TO INTENDING TKAVELLEBS OTft THE 
 
 SYRIAN COAST TO CONSTANTINOPLE, ETC. 
 
 With the view of meeting the requirements of the travelling public 
 between Egypt, the Syrian Coast, and Constantinople during the month 
 of April, and for the purpose of putting an end to the just complaints 
 prevalent during the last few years of the overcrowding of the Austrian 
 Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company's Steamers at that season, Thomas 
 Cook & Son have entered into a contract with the Austrian Lloyd's 
 Administration under which they have guaranteed a suiRcient number 
 of passengers to justify the working of 
 
 Two Special Austrian Lloyd's Steamers 
 
 Leaving Beyrout APRIL 9th and 23rd, 1889, 
 
 Thus making a weekly departure from Beyrout for the four weeks, 
 April 2nd, April 9th, April :23rd, and April 30th, to Constantinople, &c. 
 
 Private Parties or Independent Travellers wishing to secure good 
 accommodation are advised to book for the special steamers leaving 
 Beyrout April 9th and 23rd. These steamers will call only at Smyrna. 
 
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 at the Ofiices of Thos. Cook & Son, and the Berths will be allotted 
 in strict accordance with the priority of application ; therefore, those 
 who can fix the date of their departure from Beyrout are advised to 
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 ITINERARIES OF THOS. COOK & SON'S CONDUCTORS 
 
 FROM LOJiTDON TO 
 
 EGYPT, THE NILE, & PALESTINE. 
 
 N.B. — All Dates given in this Pamphlet Programme are subject to any 
 alterations that may be necessitated through Quarantine regulations, 
 alteration of Steamboat service, or other matters over which Thos. Coolc 
 and Son have no control, and passengers will have to bear all extra 
 expense incurred through such regulations or circumstances. 
 
 SUMMARY OF DATES OF DEPARTUBE FROM LONDON OF CON- 
 DUCTED PARTIES TO PAIESTINE. 
 
 Fare. 
 
 For Egypt, the First Cataract of the Nile, FiTe Weeks in Palestine, £ 
 Constantinople, Athens, &o., January 19tli I4l3 
 
 For Egypt, the First Cataract of the Nile, Month in Palestine, Con- 
 stantinople, Athens, &c,, January 5th and 19th 
 
 For Lower Egypt, Five Weeks in Palestine, Constantinople, Athens 
 &c., Fehrnary 9th and 23rd 
 
 For Lower Egypt, Month in Palestine, Constantinople, Athens, &c. 
 January 26th, Fehruary 9th and 23rd 
 
 196 
 163 
 146 
 
 ITINERARY OP PERSONALLY CONDUCTED PARTIES. 
 
 Saturday, January 5th, 19th, 26th, February 9th, 23rd, March 2nd. — Leave 
 London (Holhorn Viaduct Station) at 8'10 a.m., 10*55 a.m., or 7'55 p.m., 
 via Dover and Calais, arriving in Paris the same evening or following 
 morning. The Conductor will leave at 10'55 a.m. Passengers can be 
 supplied with tickets by the Dieppe route at proportionate fares ; and can 
 travel in advance of the Party to Paris, Turin, or Brindisi. 
 
 Monday, January 7th, 21st, 23th, February 11th, 25th, and March 4th.— 
 Leave Paris by night express viS. Dijon, Chambery, and the Mont Cenis 
 Tunnel for Turin. (Hotel Trnmhetta.) Passengers can leave London on 
 Monday at 8"10 a.m. or 10'55 a.m. and overtake the party leaving Paris 
 the same evening. 
 
 Tuesday. — Arrive at Turin 1"56 p.m. 
 
 Wednesday. — Proceed to Bologna, and sleep at the Hotel Brun. 
 
 Thursday.— Leave Bologna by train for Brindisi. Friday to be spent at 
 Brindisi. 
 
 Friday, Ja,nuary 11th, 25th, February 1st, 15th, March 1st and 8th. — Arrive 
 at Brindisi, and leave by Austrian Lloyd's steamer on Saturday morning 
 for Alexandria. 
 
 Tuesday, January 15th, 29th, February 5th, 19th, March 5th and 12th. — 
 Expect to arrive at Alexandria. The day to be spent at Alexandria. Visit 
 Pompey's Pillar and other places of interest by carriage. {Hotel Abbat 
 and Hotel Khedivial.) 
 
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 Wednesday, January 16th, 30th, February 6th, 20th, March 6th and 13th.— 
 Proceed by morning express to Cairo. {Shepheard't Hotel, New Hotel, 
 or other hotels.) 
 
 The following is recommended as a convenient mode of seeing Cairo and the 
 neighbourhood. The excursions to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and Sakkarah are 
 included in the fare, also carriage drive for one day, and carriages can be provided 
 for any other excursions, the expenses being divided among tie passengers. 
 
 Sunday. — To be spent in Cairo. Service is held in the English Church in the 
 Rue Boulac, also at the American Mission, 
 
 Monday. — Carriage excursion to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and the Sphinx. 
 
 Tuesday.— Yisit the Bazaars, the Citadel, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Tombs 
 of the Mamelukes, &c. 
 
 Wednesday. —Visit the streets of Old Cairo, the Nilometer, &c. ; also Visit 
 Heliopolis the City of the Sun, the Virgin's Tree, &o. 
 
 Thursday. — Excursion to the Pyramids of Sakkarah and the Tombs of the 
 BuUs. 
 
 Friday. — See the Howling. Dervishes, and visit the Shoubra Drive. 
 
 The departure for the Nile Steamer trip takes place on Tuesdays, January 
 
 22nd and February 5th. See Itinerary for the First Cataract on pages 
 
 75 to 80. 
 Saturday, February 16th, March 2nd and 16th. — Leave Cairo by railway for 
 
 Ismailia, and thence by steamer to Port Said. 
 Sunday, February 17th, March 3rd and 17th.— Leave Port Said by Austrian 
 
 Lloyd's steamer for Jafia. 
 Monday, February 18th, March 4th and ISth.^Arrive at Jafla, and then 
 
 proceed the same day through Palestine to Beyrout, according to the 
 
 following Itinerary. 
 
 ROUTES AND DAILY ITIKERARIES FOB A MONTH'S 
 TOTJB IN PALESTINE EITHER FOR PERSONALLY 
 CONDUCTED OB PRIVATE PARTIES. 
 
 For routes of Five Weeks' Tours, leaving London January 19th, February 
 9th and 23rd, see page 34. 
 
 First Day, Monday. — Mount horses as soon as possible after arrival (car- 
 riages supplied as far as Jerusalem without any extra charge, if preferred) J 
 ride through the orange and lemon groves of Jaffa; pass the traditional site 
 where Peter raised Tabitha (Acts ix. 36-41) ; cross the Plains of Sharon to 
 Kamleh, ascend the Tower, from which is a good view of the whole Plain, 
 from the sea to the mountains. {Hotel Meinhart.) 
 
 Secokd Day, Tuesday. — Pass along by the side of the valley of Ajalon 
 (Joshua X. 12) ; ascend the mountains of Judea to Kirjath-Jearim, where enter 
 into the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua xv. 9, and 1 Samuel vii. 1, 2) ; pass in 
 sight of the traditional birth-place of John the Baptist (Luke i. 39) ; cross the 
 valley of Kolonieh, passing just to the right of a village of the same name, the 
 site of Emmaus (Luke xxiv. 13) ; halt for lunch, then ascend the last moxmtain 
 before Jerusalem, and in about an hour and a half the city comes in sight. 
 •The mountains of Moab are seen long before, also the mountains round the 
 city (Psalms cxxv. 2) ; pass the upper pool in the fuller's field (Isaiah vii. 3) ; 
 ride along by the valley of GKhon, in which Solomon was anointed king of 
 Israel (1 Kings i. 38) ; enter the Holy City through the Jafla Gate. 
 
Thied Day, Wednesday/. — To be spent at Jerusalem. 
 
 FoTJETH Day, Thursday. — Ride to Mar-Saba ; cross the valley of Rephaira 
 (2 Samuel v. 18-25) ; halt at Rachel's tomb (&en. xxxv. 16-19), then on to 
 Solomon's Pools and Gardens (Eoclesiastes ii. 5); pass just above the site of 
 Etam (Judges xv. 8-16) ; lunch at Bethlehem ; visit the Church of Nativity 
 and David's Well; cross the field of Boaz ; see where the shepherds watched 
 their flocks by night (Ruth ii. and Luke ii. 8) ; then the tents pitched in the 
 valley of the Kedron. 
 
 Fifth Day, Friday/. — Leave very early ; ride through the wilderness of 
 Judea, four and a half hours, to the Dead Sea. Half-way up the mountain, 
 east of the lake, see the ruined castle of Maohserus, where John the Baptist was 
 beheaded (JosephuSj Ant., Book XVIIL, v. 2). A little north of the ruins, see 
 a deep valley in which are the warm baths that Herod bathed in for his Ulness 
 ■(Josephus, Ant., Book XVII., vi. 5). Just opposite the head of the lake on the 
 top of the mountain is Mount Nebo. After having a bath in the Dead Sea ride 
 up the vallejf to the Jordan, and, if circumstances will allow, bathe at the 
 traditional site where Christ was baptised (Matthew iii.). It is about two 
 hours' ride from the Jordan, across the plain to Riha, where the tents are 
 pitched for the night, on the ancient site of Gilgal (Joshua iv. 20). 
 
 Sixth Day, Saturday. — Visit the site of ancient Jericho (Joshua ii.) and 
 Elisha's Fountain (2 Kings ii.) ; cross the valley of Achor (Joshua vii. 24) ; 
 ascend the mountain by the side of a very deep gorge, in which runs the brook 
 Cherith (2 Kings xvii. 1-6) ; pass the site ■^?here the Samaritan Inn stood, and 
 the spot where a "certain man fell among thieves "—that is, according to tra- 
 dition (Luke X. 30-34) ; lunch at Enshemesh (Joshua xv. 7) ; ascend the hill to 
 Bethany, about two miles from Jerusalem (John xi.) ; see the site of Mary and 
 Martha's house; also tomb of Lazarus, &c. (read Luke xxiv. 50-51). From 
 Bethany are two roads to Jerusalem, one over the Mount of Olives, the other 
 round the way our Saviour made His triumphal entry (Luke xix. 37) ; pass 
 the Garden of Gethsemane (John xviii. 1) ; cross the Kedron ; ride round by 
 the north of the city, and enter on the west. 
 
 Sbvdnth Day, Sunday. '^ To be spent at Jerusalem, where it will be ar- 
 EiOHTH Day, Monday. V ranged to see the places of interest to the best 
 Ninth Day, Tuesday. j advantage. 
 
 Tenth Day, Wednesday. — Leave Jerusalem; pass the tombs of the 
 kings ; over Mount Scopus, where the traveller gets his last view of the Holy 
 City, and in a few minutes pass Nob (I Samuel xxi. 4) ; then Geheah of Saul 
 (1 Samuel x. 26; xiv. 2); and Ramah of Benjamin (Jeremiah xxxi. 15: 
 Matthew ii. 17, 18) ; the supposed site of Ataroth-Addar (Joshua xvi. 5) ; and 
 take lunch either at Beeroth (Joshua ix. 17 ; 2 Samuel xxiii. 37) or Bethel 
 (Genesis xiii. 3, 4 ; xxviii. 11), as time permits. After lunch ride on to Sinjil 
 or Turmus-Aye, where the tents will be pitched on a new and clean bpot for 
 the night. 
 
 Eleventh Day, Thursday. — Ascend the ridge to Shiloh (Joshua xviii., Judges 
 xxi. 19, and 1 Samuel iv. 17, 18) ; go on over hills and valleys to the Plain of 
 Mukhna, then make a detour of an hour oflf the road to visit the Tombs of 
 Phinehas and Eleazar, son and grandson of Aaron (Joshua xxiv. 33) ; then ride 
 up the valley to Jacob's Well (John iv.), and Joseph's Tomb (Genesis i. 21 
 Joshua xxiv. 32) ; from the tomb, go up the valley between Mount Gerizim 
 and Ebal, or, over Mount Gerizim, down past the west end of the town to the 
 tents, which will be pitched north of the town, on a piece of ground hired for 
 the purpose. Nablous is the site of ancient Sychar or Shechem ; it was a city 
 of refuge (Joshua xx. 7). 
 
 Twelfth Day, Friday. — Leave Nablous ; ride down a fertile and well- 
 cultivated valley to Samaria ; ride round the plateau on which Ahab's ivory 
 palace stood ; pass through the remains of a colonnade which has stood since 
 the time of Herod. It will be interesting to read, on the Hill of Samaria, 
 
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 1 Kings xvi. 24, 2 Kings vi. 23-33, also Mioah i. 6. Ride over hills and 
 fertile valleys to Dothan (2 Kings vi. 13-19, and Genesis xxxvii. 13-80). 
 It is two and a half hours' ride from Dothan to Jenin (Bngannim). where the 
 tents will he pitched to the north-east of the village, on the Plain of Esdraelon, 
 which is surrounded by mountains— on the south, the Hills of Samaria; west, 
 Mount Carmel ; north-west, the Hills of Galilee; and north-east, the mountains- 
 of Gilhoa (2 Samuel i. 21-27). 
 
 Thieteenth Day, Saturdaf/.—Croaa the plain, in two hours, to Jezreel 
 (1 Kings xzi., 2 Kings ix. 11-37), then down the valley, half an hour at 
 Gideon's fountain (Judges vii. 5. 6). After one hour's ride from the fountain 
 haltfor lunch under the lemon trees at Shunem, then ride round little Hermon,. 
 one hour to Nain' (Luke vii. 2). Good riders can go to Endor in one hour from 
 Nain ; _ in two and a half hours from Nain can reach the tents pitched on the 
 threshing floors south of Nazareth. 
 
 FotraiEEiTTH Day, Sunday. — To he spent at Nazareth, where there is an 
 English Church. Visit Miss Dickson's girls' school (one of the best in the 
 country), from which is a beautiful view of the surrounding country, 
 , Fifteenth Day, Monday^ — Leave for Tiberias ; pass Gath Hepher (2 King& 
 xiv. 25) ; visit Cana of Galilee (John ii. 6) ; lunch near avillsge called Lnbieh; 
 ride to the top of Horn-Hattin or Mount of Beatitudes (Matthew v.). On this 
 hill the last great battle of the Crusades was fought, here their fate was sealed 
 on the fifth day of July, 1187 (700 years ago) ; from here can see the site of 
 Beth-Arbel (Hosea x. 14). It will take about an hour and a half to ride 
 down to the tents, which will be pitched by the side of the lake, between the 
 town and the natforal hot baths. It may be left to the dragoman and the 
 weather to decide whether the camp for two nights he fixed by the side of this- 
 most interesting lake or not. Boats can be engaged to convey the party from 
 Tiberias to the head of the lake to the sites of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and 
 Capernaum, where the camp will be the second night if it is decided to go by 
 the water of Merom, but should it be determined to go by Safed, only one night 
 can be spent at the lake, as a day more will he required to reach Damascus by 
 Saturday ; we will, therefore, spend — 
 
 Sixteenth Day, Tuesday — On and around this beautiful lake. 
 
 Seventeenth Day, Wednesday. — Ride over the highlands of Naphtali, and 
 along the Jordan Valley to Ain Mellahah or Waters of Merom, where the tents- 
 will be pitched by the side of a nice fountain of good water. 
 
 Eighteenth Day, Thursday. — Ride up the west side and round the head 
 of the great marsh that surrounds the Waters of Merom, where there are 
 numerous buffaloes and Bedouin tents ; pass to the right of Beth Rehob 
 (Judges xviii. 28) ; cross the river by Hashiyah by an old Roman bridge, from 
 which it takes three-quarters of an hour to reach Tell-el-Sady (hill of the Judge),. 
 Laish or Dan of Scripture (Judges xviii. 1, 29). Dan is on tbe northern boundary 
 of Palestine, and Beersheba the southern (Judges xx. 1, and 1 Samuel iii. 20). 
 Here is a fountain, one source of the Jordan. It takes about an hour to ride 
 from Dan to Csesarea Philippi, when the tents will be pitched, not far from the 
 fountain (another source of the Jordan) ; here are the ruins of the temples, 
 Whete a few hours can be spent with interest. It was, without doubt, near 
 this place that the Trali8figura;tion took place (Matthew xvi. 13-28 and xvii.). 
 
 Nineteenth Day, Friday. — Leave at an early hour ; enter Syria ; ascend the 
 roiigh' slopes of Hermon (if the weather is fine visit thecastle of fianias, one of 
 the finest ruins in Syria) to the height of 5,(i00 feet above the sea level, past a 
 viliage called Mejdel Esh Shems ; itsinhabita-nts are Druses. It takes four and 
 a hafi or five hours from Banias to a village in a deep valley, called Beit Jenn 
 (Houfee of Paradise) ; halt here by the side of a stream for lunch. The numerous 
 rock-cut tombs in the side of the cliffs make one think that Beit Jenn is on 
 some ancient site. The small stream of water is one branch of the Pharpar> 
 It takes about two and a half hotirs to ride from this place to Kefr-Hauwar, a. 
 place piioperly named "Wind ; " here the tents will; be pitched on high, clear,. 
 
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 and dry ground. In th.e village is the reputed tomb of Mmrod,' the first mighty 
 hunter. 
 
 Twentieth Day, Saturday. — At a slow pace it takes six hoiirs from 
 Kefr-Hauwar to Damascus ; the road is good, and by making an early start 
 the party can ride to Damascus in time for a hot lunch at the Hotel Yietona, 
 where they will be accommodated until the following Tuesday. Soon after 
 leaving the camping-ground, cross the main branch of the Pharpar, and, after 
 about two hours' ride, pass on the right El Tell and come into the main road. 
 Just at this place tradition has located , the spot where Paul was converted 
 (Acts ix. 3-8). 
 
 TwENTr-FiBST Day, Sunday ; TwENTY-SBCOirii Day, Monday. To be spent 
 in Damascus. See the house of Judas, the house of Ananias, the Lepers' 
 Hospital (said to be on the site where Naaman's house stood), the street called 
 " Straight " (the traditional place where Paul was let down by the wall in a 
 basket), and the bazaars, &c. Abraham's servant was from Damascus (Genesis 
 XV. 2). 
 
 Twentt-Thim) Day, Tuesday. — Leave Damascus for Baalbec ; follow the 
 carriage road for an hour, by the side of the Abana, to a village called Dumar ; 
 turn off to the right, ride up a narrow valley between chalk hills, cross a dry 
 plain, down a fertile valley, through vine and fig orchards, passing a few ruins 
 of a temple built by the daughter of King Zenobia, who, according to tradition, 
 conveyed water by means of an aqueduct from the 'fountain of the Abana to 
 Palmyra. Ride up the north bank of the Abana, in the shade of large walnut 
 trees, to the fountain of Fijeh, the largest in Syria ; it is the principal source of 
 the Abana; at this fountain, near a ruined temple, halt for lunch. After lunch 
 ride along by the side of the Abana, passing the villages Der Mukurrin, Kefr- 
 Zet, and the Town of Columns, where cross the valley and ascend the high 
 ground to where the tents are pitched in a clean place at the foot of a high 
 mountain, on the top of which is the reputed tomb of Abel. Just below the 
 camp is a town called Suk, surrounded with fruit trees. 
 
 TwENTY-FotTETH Day, Wednesday. — Soon after leaving the camping-ground 
 pass through a narrow gorge, through which runs the Abana. See on the right 
 a road cut through the clifi about twenty feet in depth and about twelve in 
 width ; here are two Latin inscriptions which say that the cutting was done 
 through the agency of Julius Verus, about 164 years after Christ. Just below 
 is an aqueduct ; by passing through it can visit some tombs cut in the mountain. 
 This place was known by two names, Abila (Josephus, Ant., Book XX., 
 chapter vii. 1) and Abilene (Luke iii. 1). Ride up the valley through the 
 heart of Anti-Lebanon on to a village called Zebdany, in the midst of all kiiids' 
 x)f fruit trees ; halt for lunch by the side of a spring of good water. After 
 lunch pass to the left of Bludan, a place used as a summer residence by the 
 consuls and missionaries of Damascus. Pass Ain Hawar and Surghaya, down 
 the Valley of Taf uf eh to a village of the same name, near which the tents will 
 'be pitched for the night. 
 
 TwENTY-FiETH Day, Thursday. — Ride to Baalbec in about four hours, 
 passing in sight of the reputed tomb of Seth. Lunch in or near the Temple 
 •of the Sun. If practicable the tents wiU be pitched at the fountain about half 
 a. mile to the east of the ruins, for two reasons, one in order to get good clean 
 water, and for the sake of having a clean camping-ground. 
 
 TwENTT-SlxTH Day, Friday. — To be spent at Baalbec, inspecting the ruins. 
 
 Twenty-Seventh Day, Saturday.— Riie down the Plain of Bekaa, between 
 Anti-Lebanon and Lebanon proper ; just before crossing the Litany can see on 
 ^he top of the western range the ruins of Solomon's house, of the forest of 
 Lebanon (1 Kings vii. 2). After lunch visit the reputed Tomb of Noah (only 
 seventy yards long) ; pass through a village called Muallaka (and if there is 
 -time, ride up through the large village of Zahleh, which has about 12,000 
 inhabitants, mostly Christians) ; in one hour and a half reach the tents pitched 
 on the plaih at Stora, or proceed further to a more picturesque spot in the 
 
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 mountainB, as may be found convenient, according to the time of axriTal at 
 Stora and the state of the 'weather. 
 
 TwENTX-EiGHTH Dat, Sunday. — To be spent at Stora or vicinity. 
 
 TwBNTT-NiNTH Dat, Monday. — Have a seven hours' ride over a good road 
 to Beyrout. (Hotel iP Orient.) Soon after leaving the camping-ground pass 
 a ruined castle built by a Druse Prince of Lebanon. 
 
 Thiktieth Day, Tuesday. — To be spent at Beyrout, where passengers can 
 remain (when time is not an object) several days. It has about 100,000 
 inhabitants ; missionaries, bankers, and consuls of almost all nations live in 
 Beyrout. To all who are interested in mission work we advise a visit to the 
 British Syrian Schools and the American Mission, an epitome of the work of 
 ■which will be found on pages 87 and 88. Leave in the afternoon by Austrian 
 steamer for Smyrna. 
 
 ITINERARY OF EXTENSION TO PALMYRA. 
 
 Twenty- Thied Day, Tuesday. — Leave Damascus and travel by the village 
 of Duma, Khan-il-Ekser, an old aqueduct, Ehan Mesey. a Bedouin encamp- 
 ment, Maksura, an old ruin, to Jerud, the ancient Geroda, where camp 
 (8§ hours' ride). 
 
 Twenty-Foueth Day, Wednesday. — Proceed to Atny, a salt lake, Nebky, 
 and camp at Deiratiey (7 hours' ride). 
 
 TwEtrrr-FilTH Day, Thursday. — Proceed to Mohin, passing Haurin on the 
 left, thence to Kuretaine (lOJ hours' ride). 
 
 Twenty-Sixth Day, Friday. — Proceed to El Kaser and camp (10 hours' 
 ride), 
 
 Twenty-Seventh Day, Saturday. — Complete journey to Palmyra, and camp 
 amid the ruins (Hi hours' ride). 
 
 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thtjksday. — To be spent at 
 Palmyra in exploring the Ruins, the principal of which are the great Temple 
 of the Sun, the Great Central C!olonnade, the ancient City Wall, the Castle, 
 the Sepulchral Towers, &o. 
 
 Thtety-Thied Day, Friday. — Travel from Palmyra to El Kaser (llj hours). 
 
 Thtety-Fotjiith Day, Saturday. — Continue journey to Kuretaine (10 hours). 
 
 Thtrty-Fiith Day, Sunday.— To be spent at Kuretaine, a thriving village, 
 near which is the Sanctuary of Mar Elyan. 
 
 Thtety-Sixth Day, Jfoni/ay.— Proceed by the Convent of Mar Ely&n to 
 Mohin, then to Hafla, and camp at Khan-il-Breij (7 hours' ride). 
 
 Thtrty-Seventh Day, Tuesday. — Proceed to Ras Baalhec (7i hours). 
 
 Thiety-Eighth Day, Wednesday.— CojiXaai.% journey to Baalbec (7 hours). 
 
 Thiety-Ninth Day, Thursday. — To be spent at Baalbec, and then continue 
 journey to Beyrout, arriving at Beyrout on Saturday. 
 
 From Beyrout private parties wUl travel in accordance with their special 
 Itinerary and by the line of Steamers for which they are booked. 
 
 Feom Beyeout the conducted parties will take the Austrian Lloyd's 
 or other Steamer, on Tuesdays, March 19, April 2, 16, and 30, for 
 Smyrna and Constantinople, calling at Cyprus and Ehodes, where 
 passengers can land if time and weather permit. (See also itineraries of 
 Five Weeks' Tours, leaving Beyrout April 9th and 23rd.) If the steamer 
 arrives at Smyrna on the Saturday or even early on Sunday morning, a 
 
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 special train will be engaged for a trip to Ephesus and back, subject to 
 clause 6 on page 47, for the purpose of seeing the ruins of the ancient 
 city, and the most recent and deeply interesting discoveries of Mr. 
 Wood, who was engaged there on behalf of the British Museum, and who 
 has always been most attentive to our visitors. 
 
 We have made arrangements with the Smyrna-Aidin Railway Com- 
 pany, by which we are enabled to book any number of passengers at 
 any time from Smyrna to Ayasoulouk, the station for Bphesas. The 
 Fares are 8s. 7d. Single; 12s. lOd. Eeturn. We can also arrange for 
 special trains at any dates, at fares varying according to the number 
 of passengers. Particulars may be obtained at any of oar Offices. The 
 ordinary train services do not permit the journey to Ephesas and back 
 to be performed on the same day, and it is therefore necessary to arrange 
 for a Special Train if it is desired to proceed by a corresponding steamer 
 on the day of arrival at Smyrna, and our Conductors will make the 
 necessary arrangements. , 
 
 The steamer is due to arrive at Constantinople on Tuesday, March 
 26, April 9 and 23, and May 7 ; and the departing steamer for 
 the Pireeus will leave on Monday, April 1, 15, and 29, and May 13. 
 This will allow six days in Constantinople, on one of which arrange- 
 ments will be made for visiting the Mosque of St. Sophia, other mosques, 
 the Sublime Porte, &c. The visits to Grbvernment Offices will naturally 
 depend upon circumstances that may arise. A local commissionnaire 
 will be engaged to attend upon the party during their stay at Constan- 
 tinople. Cook's Tourist Offtce is at 170, Grande Eue de Pera., 
 
 The following is recommended as a plan for seeing Constantinople : — 
 
 The expenses of guides, fees for admission to the Mosque of St. Sophia, 
 
 trip on the Bosphorus (if Ephesus is not visited), and carriage drive to 
 
 Selamlik, are included in the fare. Other carriage drives, if taken, will 
 
 be charged to the passengers. 
 
 Monday.— Galata Tower (also called Genoese Tower) and Galata, after 
 luncheon drive over the new bridge across the Golden Horn to Stamboul, 
 to visit the Mosques of St. Sophia and Achmed, the hippodrome with 
 its columns, the museum of the Janissaries, cistern of thousand and one 
 columns, Seraglio palace (outside) and gardens, museum of antiquities. 
 Sublime Porte, tower of Seraskierat, tomb of Sultan Mahmoud and 
 ■ Sultari Abdul Asiz.' 
 
 Tuesday. — Bazaars, Pigeon mosque and mosque of Suleiman, tomb 
 of Suleiman ; after luncheon, in carriages round the walls of old Stamboul, 
 stopping near the Adrianople gate to visit the Kahvie Mosque 
 (a mosque famous for its splendid mosaics), Eyoub, returning through 
 the Jewish quarters and passing the Phanar, residence of the Greek 
 Patriarch. ' ' 
 
 Wednesday. — Excvirsion per steamer on the Bosphorus., 
 Thursday. — By steamer to Scutari, carriages to the top of the hill 
 Tschamlidscha, splendid,^ view> descend tbrough .the. i large Turkish 
 
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 cemetery to the beautifully situated English cemetery, thence to Cadikeni, 
 to pay a visit to the exhibition, at Mrs. Hanson's house, of remarkable 
 embroideries, etc., manufactured by the Bulgarian refugees, thence to 
 the monastery of the " Howling Dervishes," and return to Galata by 
 steamer. 
 
 Feiday. — Start in carriages to visit the Selamlik or the Sultan's pro- 
 cession to the mosque, and afterwards to the monastery of the " Dancing 
 Dervishes." 
 
 Wednesday, April 3, 17, and May 1 and 15. — Arrive at Pirseus, and 
 proceed by railway or carriage to Athens, which presents a pleasing 
 contrast to the rough streets of Constantinople. The Hotel d'AngleUrre 
 is an excellent house, and our arrangements will be centred there. 
 Four days will be spent in Athens, visiting the numerous places and 
 objects of historic interest, including the Acropolis, with the Parthenon, 
 Temple of Victoij, and Efechtheum, the Theatre of Bacchus, Pana- 
 thenaic Stadium, Temple of Minerva Archegetis, Porch of Hadrian, 
 Temple of Theseus, Mars Hill, &c. Cook's Tourist Office, Place de la 
 Constitution, adjoining Hotel cfAngleterre. 
 
 Should any of the passengers wish to visit Marathon, the Conductor 
 will engage carriages, and the total expense will probably not exceed 10s. 
 each person. Excursions may also be made at small expense to the 
 Olympia or to Mycenae. The latter excursion occupies four days, 
 namely : first day — steamer to Naupalea ; second day — carriages to 
 Mycenae ; third day to Corinth ; and fourth day return to Athens. 
 
 The dates and times of the steamers are subject to alteration, and 
 are only here stated as approximate. Under present arrangements 
 parties will be arranged to leave Athens by railway for Corinth and 
 Patras on Mondays, April 8 and 22, May 6 and 20, leaving Patras for 
 Brindisi the same afternoon, arriving at Brindisi on Tuesday, and 
 enabling passengers to reach London on Saturday. 
 
 Any of the party will be at perfect liberty to break their journey 
 in Italy or Paris, their traveUing Tickets not being prejudiced thereby. 
 But Continental Hotel Coupons, under the contract for Personally Con- 
 ducted Parties, will only be furnished for 15 days, and all accommo- 
 dation required beyond that time must be paid for by the travellers. 
 
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 ITI3SrEK/JLK."2- OF TOTJI2. 
 
 TO 
 
 lOWER EGYPT, THE HOLT LAND, CONSTANTINOPLE, 
 ATHENS, &c. 
 
 (Including Five Weeks in Palestine). 
 BT.B.-Passengers -wishing to include the BTile to the First Cataract can 
 leave London on January 19th and travel in. accordance with the 
 following dates, leaving Cairo on February 5th for the First Cataract, 
 returning to Cairo February 25th, in time to resume following Itinerary. 
 Those wishing to visit Lower Egypt (without the Nile) and spend five 
 weeks in Palestine, leave Loudon on February 9th or 23rd. 
 
 Saturday, January 19th, February 9tli and 23rd, 1889.— Leave London 
 (Holborn Viaduct 10'55 a.m., Victoria H'O a.m.) for Paris via Dover and Calais, 
 arriving at Paris 7 '25 p.m. 
 
 Monday, January 2lBt, Febmary 11th and 25th — To be spent in Paris, ' 
 affording an opportunity for passengers who cannot leave London until 
 Tuesday morning to overtake the party. Leave Paris (Gare de Lyon) 9'5 p.m. 
 vid Mont Cenis. 
 
 Tuesday, January 22nd, February 12th and 26th. — Arrive at Turin l"06p.m. 
 {Hotet Trombetta.) 
 
 Wednesday, January 23rd, l<'ebruary 13th and 27th — Leave Turin 8'40 a.m. 
 Arrive at Bologna 4:'44p.m. (Hotel Brun.) 
 
 Thursday, January 24th, February 14th and 28th. — Leave Bologna 3'15 a.m., 
 arriving at Brindisi 10-45 p.m. 
 
 Friday, January 25th, February 15th, and March 1st. — To be spent at 
 Brindisi, going on board Austrian steamer at night. , 
 
 Saturday, January 26th, February 16th, and March 2nd. — Leave early in 
 the morning for Alexandria. 
 
 Tuesday, January 29th, February 19th, and March 5th. — Expect to arrive 
 at Alexandria. Carriage drive to visit Pompey's Pillar and other places and 
 objects of interest. Proceed by afternoon train to Cairo. [Hotel Abbot or 
 Hotel Khedivial.) 
 
 Wednesday, January 30th, February 20th, and March 6th, to Friday, 
 March 1st and 15th. — To be spent in Cairo. {Shepheard's Hotel or Neio Hotel.) 
 The fare includes a carriage drive in Cairo and pxcurtions to the Pyramids 
 of Ghizeh and Sakkarah. 
 
 Passengers for the First Cataract leave Cairo by Tourist steamer on Tuesday, 
 February 5th. 
 
 Saturday, March 2nd and 16th. — Leave Cairo by railway for Ismailia, and 
 thence by steamer on the Suez Canal to Port Said. 
 
 Sunday, March 3rd and 17th. — Leave by Austrian Lloyd's steamer for Jaffa. 
 
 Monday, March 4th and 18th. — Expect to land at Jaffa and commence five 
 weeks' tour in Palestine, the route being similar to that described on pages 
 27 to 31, with the addition of Hebron and Mount Carmel, and allowing 
 more time at Jerusalem. First day encamp at Ramleh. 
 
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 Tuesday, March 5th and 19th. — Ramleh to Jerusalem. 
 
 "Wednesday, March 6th and 20th, to Sunday, March 10th and 24th.— To be 
 spent in sight-seeing in and around Jerusalem. 
 
 Monday, March 11th and 25th.— Jerusalem to Solomon's Pools, Bethlehem, 
 and Hebron. 
 
 Tuesday, March 12th and 26th.— Hebron to Bethlehem and Mar Saba. 
 "Wednesday, March 13th and 27th.— Mar Saba to the Dead Sea, the Jordan, 
 and Jericho. 
 
 Thursday, March 14th and 28th.— Jericho to Bethel. 
 
 Friday, March 15th and 29th.— Bethel to Singil. 
 
 Saturday, March 16th and 30th.— Singil to Jacob's "Well and Nablous. 
 
 Sunday, March 17th and 31st. — To be spent at Nablous. 
 
 Monday, March 18th and April 1st.— Nablous to Dothan and Jenin. 
 
 Tuesday, March 19th and April 2nd. — Jenin to Jezreel, Nain, and Jolineam. 
 
 "Wednesday, March 20th and April 3rd. — Jokneam to Mount Carmel. 
 
 Thursday, March 21st and April 4th. — Mount Carmel to Nazareth. 
 
 Friday, March 22nd and April 5th. — To be spent at Nazareth. 
 
 Saturday, March 23rd and April 6th. — Nazareth to Tiberias. 
 
 Sunday, March 24th and April 7th. — On the shores of the Sea of Galilee. 
 
 Monday, March 25th and April 8th. — Tiberias to the "Waters of Merom. 
 
 Tuesday, March 20th and April 9th. — "Waters of Merom to Csssarea Philippi. 
 
 "Wednesday, March 27th and April 10th.— Caesarea Philippi to Kefr Hauwar. 
 
 Thursday, March 28th and April 11th. — Kefr Hauwar to Damascus. 
 
 Friday, March 29th and April 12th, to Monday, April 1st and 15th. — To be 
 spent at Damascus. 
 Tuesday, April 2nd and 16th. — Leave Damascus for Baalbec. 
 Thursday, April 4th and 18th. — 
 Friday, April 5th and 19th. — At Baalbec. 
 Saturday, April 6th and 20th. — Baalbec to Stora. 
 Sunday, April 7th and 2l8t. — At Stora or some neighbouring place. 
 Monday, April 8th and 22nd.— Stora to Beyrout. 
 
 Tuesday, April 9th and 23rd.— Leave by Austrian Lloyd's steamer for 
 Smyrna. (These steamers will not call at Cyprus and Rhodes.) 
 Saturday, April 13th and 27th. — Arrive at Smyrna. 
 Sunday, April 14th and 28th. — Leave Smyrna for Constantinople. 
 
 Tuesday, April 16th and 30th. — Arrive at Constantinople. For sight-seeing, 
 see page 32. 
 
 Monday, April 22nd and May 6th.— Leave by Austrian Lloyd's steamer 
 for Piraaus (Athens). 
 
 "Wednesday, April 24th and May 8th. — Arrive at Athens. 
 
 Monday, April 29th and May 6th. — Leave Athens for Corinth, Patras, and 
 Brindisi. 
 
 Tuesday, April 30th and May 14th. — Arrive at Brindisi. 
 
 Saturday, May 4th and 18th. — Expect to arrive in London. 
 
 Inclusive Fare £163. 
 
 Or with the Nile £213. 
 
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 SPECIAL TOURS. 
 
 BETTTENIlfG BY THE BTEW UTTEKlTATIOnS'AI. BAIL'WAY, VIA 
 CON STAWTIlTOPIiE, SOPHIA, BELGEADE, AND VIENNA. 
 
 Passengers by any of the foregoing routes can be booked to return 
 by the new through railway route in accordance with the following 
 Itinerary : — 
 
 Tuesday, April 2nd, 16th, and 30th.— Leave Beyront, for Cyprus, Rhodes, 
 and Smyrna. 
 
 Tuesday, April 9th, 23rd, and May 7th.— Leave Smyrna for Athens by 
 Austrian Lloyd's steamer. 
 
 Wednesday, AppU 10th, 24th, May 8th.— Arrive in Athens and there spend 
 a week. Visit various places of interest. (See page 33.) 
 
 Wednesday, April 17th, May 1st and 15th.— Leave Athens by Austrian 
 Lloyd's steamer for Constantinople. 
 
 Friday, April 19th, May 3rd and I7th.— Arrive at Constantinople, and there 
 spend five days. For programme of sight-seeing, see page 32. 
 
 Thursday, April 25th, May 9th and 23rd.— Leave Constantinople by Inter- 
 national Express Train. 
 
 Friday, April 26th, May 10th and 24th.— Arrive at Sophia, and spend the 
 day. 
 
 Saturday, April 27th, May 11th and 25th.— Leave Sophia for Belgrade and 
 Vienna. 
 
 Sunday and Monday. — To be spent in Vienna. Hotel Metropole. 
 
 Tuesday, April 30th, May 14th and 28th. — Leave Vienna by morning 
 express for Munich. Hotel Belle Vue. 
 
 Wednesday, May 1st, 15th, and 29th ; Thursday, May 2nd, 16th, and 30th.— 
 To be spent in Munich. 
 
 Friday, May 3rd, 17th, and 31st. — Leave Munich by express train for 
 Straaburg. 
 
 Saturday, May 4th, 18th, June let. Leave Strasburg by express for 
 Brussels. 
 
 Sunday, May 5th, 191h, and June 2nd. — To be spent in Brussels. 
 
 Monday, May 6th, 20th, and June 3rd. — Return via Calais and Dover to 
 London. Hotel accommodation terminates with breakfast on Monday. 
 
 PARES, INCLUDING- HOTEL ACCOMMODATION: 
 For Lower Egypt and Month's Palestine Tour, 
 
 returning as above £162 O 
 
 Fares for tours including the Nile or five weeks in Palestine are in 
 proportion. 
 
 EETTJBNING- BY THE DANUBE. 
 
 Passengers can be booked to return by the Danube according to the 
 following Itinerary : — 
 
 Tuesday, April 2nd, 16th, and 30th.— Leave Beyrout for Cyprus, Ehodes, 
 and Smyrna. Arrive at Smyrna on Saturday. Spend Sunday and Monday at 
 Smyrna. This will give opportunity for visiting Ephesus and other of the 
 Seven Churches. 
 
 Tuesday, April 9th, 23rd, and May 7th. — Leave Smyrna for Athens by 
 Austrian Lloyd's steamer. 
 
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 "Wednesday, April lOth^ 24th, and May 8th. — Arrive in Athens, and there 
 spend a week visiting various places of interest (see page 33). 
 
 Wednesday, April 17th, May Ist and 15th.— Leave Athens for Constantinople. 
 
 Friday, April 19th, May 3rd and 17th. — Arrive at Constantinople. 
 
 Saturday, April 20th, May 4th and 18th.— To following Saturday he spent 
 in Constantinople. See programme for sight-seeing on page 32. 
 
 Saturday, April 27th, and May 11th and 25th. — Leave by Austrian Lloyd's 
 steamer for Varna, railway thence to Rustchuk, steamer across the Danube to 
 Giorgevo, and railway to Bucharest, the capital of Eoumania. (Hotel Brofft.) 
 Sunday to be spent in Bucharest. 
 
 Monday, April 29th, May 13th and 27th.— Leave Bucharest hy railway for 
 Turn Severin ; slee^ on board the Danube steamer. An extra charge is made 
 for accommodation in the Orient ^Express. 
 
 Tuesday, April 30th, May 14th and 28th. — Leave Turn Severin by steamer, 
 passing the Iron Gates (the finest scenery upon the Danube), arriving at 
 Belgrade, the capital of Servia, the same night. 
 
 "Wednesday, May 1st, 15th, and 29th. — Leave Belgrade by train for Buda- 
 Pesth. 
 
 Thursday, May 2nd, 16th and 30th. — Leave Pesth for Vienna. Three days 
 may be spent in the Austrian capital. ' (Hotel Metropole.) 
 
 Monday, May 6th, 20th, and June 3rd. — Leave Vienna by morning express 
 for Munich, the capital of Bavaria. 
 
 Tuesday and "Wednesday. — To be spent in Munich, which is more richly 
 endowed with art treasures than any other city in Germany. Here the 
 party will visit the Royal Palace, Museums of Ancient Art, the Koyal 
 Library (a superb edifice, capable of holding two million volumes, and in rich- 
 ness tlie second in the world), the Cathedral, Basilica of St. Boniface, Eoyal 
 Bronze Foundry (where half the bronze statues in America are manufactured), 
 the colossal statue of Bavaria, 100 feet high from the base, and various 
 interesting and stately palaces. 
 
 Thursday, May 9th, 23rd, and June 6th. — Leave Mxinieh by express train 
 for Stuttgart. {Hotel Marqaardt.) 
 
 Friday, May 10th, 24th, and June 7th. — Travel by rail to Strassburg. {Hotel 
 de la Ville de Paris.) The afternoon may be spent in visiting the Cathedral, 
 the Clock, and many other objects of interest. 
 
 Saturday, May 11th, 25th, and June 8th. — Leave Strassburg by express, and 
 arrive at Brussels same evening. 
 
 Sunday, May 12th, 26th, and June 9th. — To be spent in Brussels. 
 
 Monday, May 13th, 27th, and June 10th. — Eeturn by Calais and Dover to 
 London. Hotel accommodation terminates with breakfast on Monday. 
 
 PARES, INCLUDIlSrG HOTEL ACCOMMODATION : 
 For Lower Egypt and Month's Palestine Tour, 
 
 returning as above £163 O 
 
 A Conductor wiU travel by either of the above routes should the party number 
 
 ten or more. 
 
 COOK'S OFFICES AT CONSTANTINOPLE AND ATHENS. 
 
 For some years we had been urged to establish an office at 
 Constantinople, but the greatest difficulty has been in obtaining suit- 
 able premises for the purpose, but in 1883 we secured a conspicuous 
 
building in the main street of Pera, close to the British Embassy and 
 the principal, hotels. A qualified representative is stationed here to 
 pive information and assist our passengers on their return from the 
 East, and tickets will be issued for any part of Central Europe, the 
 United States, &c. The address is 170, Grande Eue de Pera. 
 
 Our office at Athens is in the Place de la Constitution, adjoining the 
 Hotel d'Angleterre. 
 
 The establishment of these offices enables us to offer unprecedented 
 facihties for excursions to the Crimea, Caucasus, the Euins of Troy, the 
 Battleiield of Marathon, the Isthmus of Corinth, the Morea, &c. With 
 Constantinople for a centre may be visited the principal battle-fields of 
 the Eusso-Turkish war, the Dardanelles, and the reputed site of Troy, 
 Southern Eussia, and the Crimea, the Caucasus and Asia Minor, with 
 Smyrna, Ephesus, and the " Seven Churches of Asia." At our office 
 will also be found competent dragomans and guides, who will conduct 
 travellers to the chief places of interest in and around the city, and 
 who could be engaged for tours of any description. 
 
 With Athens as a centre may be visited Marathon, Corinth, Thebes, 
 Eleusis, Argos, Olympia, and numerous other places of classic and 
 antiquarian renown. 
 
 SPECIAL CONDUCTED TOUR TO EGYPT, 
 
 THE DESERT, SINAI, PETRA, JERUSALEM, 
 
 PALESTINE, CONSTANTINOPLE, &c. 
 
 Having' received several inquiries from intending travellers who wish, to 
 visit Sinai, Petra, &c., Thos. Cook & Son invite early deposits for the follow- 
 ing select Conducted Tour. The conditions will be the same as for their 
 regular advertised tours. 
 
 ITINERARY. 
 
 Saturday, January 19th. — Leave London via Calais, Paris, and Brindisi. 
 
 Saturday, January 26th. — Leave Brindisi by Austrian Lloyd's steamer, callin g 
 at Corfu. 
 
 Tuesday, January 29th. — Arrive in Alexandria and proceed to Cairo. 
 
 The following is recommended as a convenient mode of seeing Cairo and the 
 neighbourhood. The excursions to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and Sakkarah are 
 included in the fare, and carriages can be provided for any other excursions, 
 the expenses being divided among the passengers. 
 
 Thursday. — Carriage excursions to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and the Sphinx. 
 
 Friday. — Visit the Bazaars, the Citadel, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Tombs 
 of the Mamelukes, &c. 
 
 Saturday. — Excursions to the Pyramids of Sakkarah and the Tombs of the 
 BuUs. 
 
 Sunday. — To be spent in Cairo. ' 
 
 Monday, February 4th.— Leave Cairo by train for Suez, < he Camp having 
 left previously. 
 
 Tuesday, February 5th. — Commence camping tour to Sinai, Akabah, Petra, 
 and Hebron. (See page 54). 
 
 Sunday and Monday, March 17th and 18th. — Expect to spend at Hebron, 
 
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 Tuesday, March 19th. — Travel to Jerusalem, and thence to Bethlehem, Dead 
 Sea, Jordan, Jericho, Nablous, Nazareth, Tiberias, Damascus, Baalbeo, Beyrout, 
 as per page 27. 
 
 Tuesday, April 16th. — Leave Beyrout by Austrian Lloyd's steamer for 
 Smyrna and Constantinople. Should time permit an excursion will be made 
 to Ephesus. 
 
 Tuesday, April 23rd. — Arrive at Constantinople. { 
 
 Six days will be allotted to an inspection of the city of the Sultan, the 
 time being occupied in the most practicable way. 
 
 Constantinople (pop. 600,000) is the capital of the Sultan's dominions. It is 
 beautifully situated on the Golden Horn, at the entrance to the Bosphorus 
 from the sea of Marmora. The principal objects of interest are the Bazaars 
 and Hippodrome, the Seraskier, Mosque of Eyoub, old Seraglio, Mint, Mosque 
 of St. Sophia, Egyptian Obelisk, Pillar of Constantino, Column of Arcadius 
 and Eudoxis, Cisterns of Fhiloxena, &e. Cook's Tourist Office is 170, Grande 
 Eue de Pera. 
 
 Monday, AprU 29th. — Leave Constantinople by Austrian steamer. 
 
 Wednesday, May 1st. — Arrive at Athens. 
 
 A week wUl be very pleasantly spent in Athens, visiting the numerous places 
 and objects of historic interest, including the Acropolis, with the Parthenon, 
 Temple of Victory, and Erechtheum, the Theatre of Bacchus, Panathenaic 
 Stadium, Temple of Minerva Archegetis, Porch of Hadrian, Temple of Theseus, 
 Mars Hill, &c. Cook's Tourist Office, Place de la Constitution, adjoining 
 Hotel d' Angleterre. 
 
 Should any of the passengers wish to visit Marathon, the Conductor will 
 engage carriages, and the total expense will probably not exceed 10s. each 
 person. Excursions may also be made, at small expense, to the Olympia or to 
 MycensB. The latter excursion occupies four days, namely, first day, steamer 
 to Naupalea ; second day, carriages to Mycense ; third day, to Corinth ; and 
 fourth day, return to Athens. 
 
 Monday, May 6th. — Leave Athens, via Corinth and Fatras, for Brindisi. 
 
 Tuesday, May 7t,h. — Arrive at Brindisi. 
 
 Saturday, May 11th — Expect to arrive in London. 
 
 Fare each person . . . . £230. 
 
 THE FARE INCLUDES 
 
 First-class travelling on railways, in steamers and in camp, camels and all 
 requisites for the desert. Tour between Suez and Hebron or Jerusalem, and 
 horses and all requisites for the Palestine tour to Beyrout, omnibuses between 
 stations or piers and hotels, expenses of landing or embarking at Alexandria , 
 Bejrrout, Smyrna, Constantinople, Athens, and Brindisi, carriage drive to the 
 Pyramids, excursion to Sakkarah, hotel accommodation in first-class hotels for 
 fifteen days in Europe, six days in Egypt, eight days at Constantinople, six 
 days at Athens, free conveyance of 60 lbs. of luggage, expenses of sight- 
 seeing at chief places of interest while with the Conductor, fees to servants, 
 porters and guards, and services of a competent Conductor throughout, pro- 
 viding ten names are registered and depositsof £20 each paid by December 31st. 
 
 The Fare does not include expenses other than those mentioned above or 
 expenses incurred through quarantine or any other circumstances over which 
 Thos. Coob: & Son have no control, blackmail at Fetra (which may be about 
 £5 each), final backsheesh to camp servants at end of Palestine tour, wines or 
 other drinks, or expenses of washing linen, &c. 
 
 N.B. — Arrangements can be made for travelling to Cairo in advance of the 
 party or by other route, also for returning from Jerusalem, or from Beyrout, 
 by any route to meet the convenience and the wishes of individual traveileis. 
 
 This Desert Party will be strictly select and limited. 
 
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 PROGRAMME OF 
 
 TO 
 
 LOWER EGYPT 
 
 AND 
 
 THE HOLY LAND, 
 
 INCITTDUfG 
 
 JAFFA. JERUSALEM, BETHLEHEM. MAR-SABA. DEAD SEA. 
 
 JORDAN. JERICHO. THE SUEZ CANAL. CAIRO. 
 ALEXANDRIA. AND THE CHIEF ITALIAN CITIES. 
 
 Leaving London Mondays, January 7th, February 
 4th, and March 4th, 1889. 
 
 Including Railway, Steamer, Hotel and Camp accommodation for the 
 whole Tonr. 
 
 First Class all the way ..... 
 Second Class Kailway and Steamers, other 
 accommodation same as First Class . 
 
 • ThiE fare is from Rome to Lower Palestine, Egypt, and back to London, as per Programme 
 with 7 days' European hotel coupons instead of 15, 
 
 Passengers can be booked to start from Geneva, Brussels, Cologne, or any 
 other of the principal Continental Cities. Fares upon application. 
 
 DEPOSITS 
 
 To secure accommodation, to the amount of 10 per cent., should be made as soon 
 as possible, and the amount of the deposits, less 10 per cent., will be returned if 
 anything occurs to prevent depositors making the trip, and notice to that effect 
 is given fourteen days prior to the time advertised for departure. 
 
 Thos. Cook & Son do not bind themselves to send a Conductor unless there 
 are 10 names registered to travel together through Italy. 
 
 Krom and 
 to 
 
 London. 
 
 From and 
 to 
 
 Paris. 
 
 * I'rom 
 
 Rome via 
 
 Naples. 
 
 £99 
 
 £86 
 
 £96 
 £84 
 
 £80 
 £71 
 
 PROGRAMMES AND ITINERARIES. 
 
 MONDAYS, JANUARY 7th, FEBRUARY 4th, and MARCH 4th, 1889.— 
 The journey may be commenced from London, and on arrival at Alexandria 
 the tour will be continued as per following daily arrangement, or the route 
 through Egypt may be reversed to suit the convenience of steamboat sailings 
 for J^a. This can be decided when tickets are taken. Leave London Bridge 
 Station by the Newhaven and Dieppe route at 8*0 p.m. for Paris. Tickets can 
 be provided for the Dover and Calais route at extra fares. Passengers desiring 
 more time in Paris can travel in advance of the Party. 
 
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 Tuesday, January 8th, February 5th, and March 5th. — To be spent in Paris. 
 Leave Paris by night express for Turin, via Mont Cenis Tunnel. 
 
 Wednesday, January 9th, February 6 th, and March 6th. — Arrive in Turin. 
 (Hotel Trombetta.) 
 
 Thursday, January 10th, February 7th, March 7th. — Leave Turin by train 
 for Genoa. (Hotel de la Ville.) 
 
 Friday, January 11th, February 8th, March 8th. — Leave Genoa for Spezia and 
 Pisa. (Hotel Victoria.) 
 
 Saturday, January 12th, February 9th, March 9th. — In the morning visit the 
 Leaning Tower, the Cathedral, Baptistery, and Campo Santo, and leave by noon 
 train for Borne. (Hotels Allemagne, Continental, and Anglo-American.) 
 
 M^ H ^' \ '^° ^® spent in Eome, carriages being provided for sight-seeing 
 Tuesday. ) on two days. 
 
 Wednesday. — Leave Rome for ITaples. (Hotel NobUe.) 
 
 Thursday, January 17th, February 14th, March 14th. — The morning may be 
 spent in and around Naples, or in a trip to Pompeii, at a small additional cost, 
 going on board the £ubattino steamer in the afternoon, and leaving for 
 Alexandria. 
 
 Tuesday, January 22nd, February 19th, March 19th. — Expected to arrive at 
 Alexandria. (Hotel Abbat and Hotel Khedivial.) Visit aU the places of 
 interest, including Pompey's Pillar, &c., &c. 
 
 Wednesday, January 23rd, February 20th, March 20th. — To be spent in 
 Alexandria. 
 
 Thursday, January 24th, February 2l8t, March 21st. — Leave Alexandria by 
 Khedivie steamer for Jaffa. Should passengers arrive at Alexandria after the 
 departtire of the steamer for the Syrian Coast, they will visit Cairo on the 
 outward journey, and, after visiting Cairo, proceed to Ismailia and Port Said 
 in time to take Austrian or other Steamer for Jaffa. 
 
 Friday, January 25th, February 22nd, March 22nd. — Arrive at Jaffa and 
 proceed by carriages or horses to Eamleh. (Hotel Eeinhart.) Carriages can 
 go through to Jerusalem in one day ; horse-riders require two days, stopping 
 in hotel or Convent in Ramleh for a night. 
 
 Saturday, January 26th, February 23rd, March 23rd.— Proceed to Jerusalem, 
 where accommodation will be provided at the Hotels. 
 
 Wednesday, January 30th, February 27th, March 27th.— Go by Tomb of 
 Eachel and Solomon's Pools to Bethlehem, visit the Church and Grottoes of 
 the Nativity of Christ, and then go forward to Mar-Saba, and encamp ia the 
 Kedron Valley near the Convent. 
 
 Thursday, January 31st, February 28th, March 28th. — Ride over the hills of 
 the wilderness of Judeea to the valley of the Dead Sea, allow time to bathe if 
 desired, and then go forward to the Jordan, taking lunch and rest on the 
 margin of the sacred river. At night encamp near to the Foimtain of Elisha, on 
 the supposed site of the ancient Jericho, under the shadow of the Mount of 
 Temptation. 
 
 Friday, February 1st, March 1st, 29th.— Go by the high and rocky road 
 to Bethany and the Mount of Olives. Return to Jerusalem by the Valley 
 of Jehoshaphat and the reputed site of the Garden of Gethsemane. 
 
 Saturday to Tuesday. — To be spent in and about Jerusalem. 
 
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 Tuesday, February 5th, March 5th, and April 2nd. — Tate the road by 
 Mizpeh (tomb of Samuel the Prophet), Gibeon, and the Two Bethorons, to 
 Lydda, and stop the night at Eamleh. 
 
 "Wednesday, February 6th, March 6th and April 3rd. — Leave in the morning 
 for a three hours' ride over the Plain of Sharon to Jaffa. 
 
 Thursday, February 7th, March 7th and April 4th. — Leave Jaffa by Khedivie 
 steamer for Port Said. Should anything occur to prevent the passengers 
 connecting with the steamer, through the steamer not calling at Jaffa, or other 
 circumstances, the passengers will have to pay the extra hotel accommodation. 
 The cost of extra hotel accommodation will be 10s. per day at Jaffa, 13s. per 
 day at Alexandria, and 15s. per day at Cairo. 
 
 Friday, February 8th, March 8th and April 5th. — Arrive at Port Said and 
 proceed by steamer on the Suez Canal to IsmaUia, and thence by railway to 
 Cairo. 
 
 Saturday, February 9th, March 9th and April 6th.— Arrive in Cairo. 
 (Shepheard's Hotel or New Hotel.) 
 
 The following is recommended as a convenient mode of seeing Cairo and the 
 neighbourhood. The excursions to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and Sakkarah are 
 included in the fare, and carriages can be provided for any other excursions, 
 the expenses being divided among the passengers. 
 
 Sunday. — To be spent in Cairo. Service is held in the English church in the 
 Rue Boulac and at the American Mission. 
 
 Monday. — Carriage excursions to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and the Sphinx. 
 
 Tuesday. — Visit the Bazaars, the Citadel, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Tombs 
 of the Mamelukes, &c. 
 
 Wednesday. — Excursion to the Pyramids of Sakkarah and the Tombs of the 
 Bulls. 
 Thursday. — Excursion to the Tombs of the Oaliphs and the Petrified Forest. 
 
 Friday, February 15th, March 15th, April 12th. — Leave Cairo by train for 
 Alexandria. (Hotel Abbat or Khedivial. 
 
 Saturday, February 16th, March 16th, April 13th.— Sail by Eubattino 
 steamer for Genoa, due there on the following Saturday. A conductor not 
 being required after leaving Alexandria, the return journey, via Turin, Mont 
 Cenis Tunnel, and Paris may be made at discretion. Tickets are available 
 to return to London at any time within two months from date of departure. 
 
 PASSENGERS PREFERRING TO GO AND RETURN 
 via MARSEILLES 
 
 Can be supplied with tickets for that route, arriving at Jaffa in time to join the 
 Personally Conducted Parties for Palestine and Egypt, and leaving Alexandria 
 on the return on alternate Tuesdays for Marseilles and London. Steamers leave 
 Marseilles every alternate Friday. 
 
 Fares for the above or for any other route upon application. 
 
 PROVISION POR AND CONDITIONS O^" SHORT TOURS. 
 
 HoTBl Accommodation after leaving London, for 15 days in Europe, con- 
 sisting of meat breakfast, dinner at table d'h6te (with or without wine, accord- 
 ing to the ordinary provision of the hotels), 11 days' hotel accommodation in 
 Egypt, 3 meals a. day, and all charges included, without wine or beer ; riding 
 horses and camp or hotel accommodation in Palestine for the time specified in 
 the programme (riding-horse is not provided during the stay in Jerusalem) ; 
 60 lbs. of baggage free while with the conductor, but not otherwise in 
 
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 travelling through Italy; on French railways 60 lbs. is allowed; landing, 
 embarkation, and omnibiiB charges paid by the conductor ; carriage trip from 
 Cairo to the Pyramids of Ghizeh and back, and the Sheikh's fee for permission 
 to ascend or enter the interior of the Great Pyramid ; Excursion to the 
 Pyramids of Sakkarah and back ; fee for admission to the Mosque of Omar 
 at Jerusalem. English saddles and bridles are provided ■without extra charge. 
 If through any irregularity in the sailing of steamers the time in Palestine 
 should be abridged, 10s. per day for such abridgment will be allowed ; if the 
 time has to be extended beyond the time stated in the programme, extra 
 lOs. per day will be charged for hotel accommodation. At the close of every 
 day, when in camp, tea or coffee will be allowed to each traveller after dinner. 
 (Tea is usually charged extra by private dragomans, but it has been determined 
 by Thos. Cook & Sow to supply the tea and abolish the charge for it.) No 
 provision in connection with these cheap and short Palestine tours for any hotel 
 accommodation in Great Britain. 
 
 CAUTION". 
 
 Thos. Cook & Soir do not hold themselves responsible for loss of time or 
 money consequent on the irregularity of steamboat or railway service, sickness, 
 war, or any calamity or hindrance caused by circumstances over which they 
 have no control. 
 
 Baggage. — All practical assistance in the registration and care of baggage, 
 and its passage through custom-houses, will be afforded by the Conductors and 
 agents of the contractors for the totirs, but they cannot be responsible for losses 
 by damage, robberies, or detention, and at every custom-house and transfer of 
 baggage its owners should satisfy themselves that it is safe. 
 
 N.B. — Great care will be taken in the registration and conveyance of the 
 trunks or portmanteaus of the parties whilst travelling with the Conductor ; 
 but it must be distinctly understood that all small packages, such as hand-bags, 
 umbrellas, travelling-srugs, &c., must remain entirely under the control of the 
 passenger. 
 
u 
 
 )momll^ Cctikjcto §mtm. 
 
 We wish for these parties under personal escort to be understood as 
 perfectly distinct from our arrangements for independent travellers. 
 The conditions, fares, and many incidental arrangements for these 
 parties are not the same as those for the travellers who prefer to tate 
 tickets and go independent of any travelling conductor. For these 
 personally conducted parties distinct and special arrangements are 
 made with the Steamship Companies for the voyage out, round the 
 Syrian Coast, and back to Briadisi or Trieste. Experience has taught 
 the advisability of starting from Brindisi and terminating at that point 
 or at Trieste. As the number for each party by the steamers from 
 Beyrout is limited, we shall not take the responsibility of booking more 
 than a limited number to start from Beyrout at one date. If any wish 
 to go out by other hnes of steamers, and yet to unite with any of our 
 parties in Palestine, we can only guarantee their accommodation as 
 tar as Beyrout, our absolute provision only being for those who take the 
 entire round. The French and Russian steamers from Beyrout go 
 round the coast from Beyrout to Alexandretta, Tripoli, &c., and take 
 nearly a week longer than the Austrian Lloyd's in getting to Constanti- 
 nople. For any who desire it, provision can be made by those steamers, 
 but not at the same fares as our personally conducted parties. 
 
 A word as to management of these parties. It may be found neces- 
 sary to employ more than one conductor for the same party for certain 
 portions of the tours. For instance, it is probable that a conductor 
 accustomed to European travel may take charge of the parties passing 
 through that country either in going or returning, and other quaUfied 
 conductors may take charge during the Eastern portion of the tours. 
 On the Nile special agents are appointed to superintend the arrange- 
 ments, who are likely to have more power over the steamboat crews 
 and the donkey proprietors, and who understand the visiting arrange- 
 ments better than strangers. Each Nile steamer is thus provided with 
 a dragoman, and he is necessarily the personal conductor. 
 
 ROUTES OF PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURS. 
 
 London to Paris, Paris to Turin, by Mont Cenis ; Turin to Bologna, 
 Ancona, Foggia, Brindisi ; Brindisi by Austrian Lloyd's Steamer to 
 Alexandria ; Alexandria to Cairo, by Eailway ; 20 days on the Nile ; 
 Cairo to Ismaiha, by Railway ; Ismailia to Port Said, by Suez Canal 
 Steamer ; Port Said to Jaffa, by Steamer ; through Palestine, as per 
 Itinerary, to Beyrout ; the regular round of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Dead 
 Sea, Jordan, Jericho, Nazareth, Tiberias, Damascus, and Baalbec, occupy- 
 ing one month, and the extension to Palmyra an additional fortnight 
 
45 
 
 (or for Special Five Weeks' Tour see page 34) ; Beyrout to Constan- 
 tinople by Austrian Lloyd's or other steamer, calling at Cyprus, 
 Rhodes, Smyrna (from whence special train to Ephesus and back) ; 
 short stoppages are also made at Scio, Mytilene, Dardanelles, and 
 GaUipoh. Landings are only convenient at Cyprus, Ehodes, and 
 Smyrna. Six days at Constantinople, and then sail to the Piraeus for 
 Athens ; six days at Athens, and then by railway to Patras and by 
 steamer to Brindisi, and railway to Milan, St. Gothard, Paris, and 
 London. As before stated, this route may be changed by starting 
 from Trieste for Alexandria direct, and returning to Brindisi, If any 
 return by Trieste, tickets will be supplied at proportionate rates. So 
 also in going out : — If any wish to go through Italy by Rome and 
 Naples, the additional fare of £2 will have to be paid. Any wishing 
 to make the circle of Italy, in going or returning, can be supplied with 
 Circular Tickets for central and southern Italy, going or returning 
 by Pisa, Genoa, and Turin. Deductions wiU be made for abridgments 
 of tours, and extra charges for extension. Any wishing to return from 
 Constantinople by the Danube to Vienna, by giving timely notice, can 
 have tickets to take them from Beyrout to Smyrna, Syra, and Pirseus, 
 and from thence to Constantinople. But this cannot be done without 
 loss after entering upon the tour, and must of course depend upon the 
 resumption of the service of steamers on the Danube. 
 
 STABTING PROM OTHER PLACES. 
 
 It will be easy to fall in with these arrangements at any of the points 
 named, and the fares can be quoted from Paris, Geneva, Brussels, 
 Cologne, Rome, or any seaport. Passengers may go in advance on the 
 outward trip, or linger in returning, at their discretion ; but they will 
 not be entitled to any assistance of the conductor, or to any payment of 
 incidentals under his control, unless they travel with him. 
 
 CONDUCTORS AND ASSISTANTS 
 
 Will go according to the dates shown on page 25. Our staff of 
 Eastern Clerks and Assistants will be at the service of the parties. Our 
 Agents and Boatmen will be easily recognised by their flags and insignia, 
 to assist at Alexandria, Jaffa, Beyrout and Constantinople ; and under 
 the direction of our office at Cairo the trip to the Pyramids will be 
 arranged, and other Egyptian movements controlled, as far as our 
 obligations to the parties are concerned. 
 
46 
 
 FAEES FOB PERSONALLY CONDUCTED PARTIES PROM 
 LONDON AND BACK TO LONDON AS PER PRO- 
 GRAMMES. 
 
 Month in Palestine with Constantinople and Athens, 
 
 Via Calais. Via Dieppe. 
 
 First Glass. First Class. 
 
 Lower Egypt, First Kile Cataract and Palestine ... £196 iE193 6 
 
 Lower Egypt and Palestine 146 143 6 
 
 Lower Egypt, Desert, Petra, and Palestine 230 227 6 
 
 Five Weeks in Palestine with Constantinople and Athens. 
 
 Lower Egypt and Palestine £163 £160 6 O 
 
 Lower Egypt, First Ifile Cataract and Palestine ... 213 210 6 
 
 Six Weeks in Palestine with Palmyra, returning via Constantinople 
 
 and Athens. 
 
 Via Calais. Via Dieppe. 
 First Class. First Class. 
 
 Lower Egypt, First BTile Cataract and Palestine £217 £214 6 
 
 Lower Egypt and Palestine 167 164 6 
 
 The above provides for first class throughout, but if any prefer to 
 travel second class the difference of fare will be allowed. There can be 
 no distinctions made in camp or in the hotels in Palestine, or on the 
 Nile Steamers. 
 
 For any of above tours, which include Constantinople and Athens, 
 passengers wishing to return direct from Beyrout to Alexandria and 
 Trieste wiU be allowed a proportionate reduction from the above fares 
 for hotel and other accommodation, and the services of a conductor not 
 required beyond Beyrout. It is, however, necessary to decide fully 
 upon the tour before leaving, as changes cannot afterwards be made. 
 
 PROVISION INCLUDED. 
 
 1. First Class Kailway and Steamer throughout. 
 
 2. Riding horse with English saddle and bridle, mule for 60 lbs. of 
 
 baggage, sleeping tent and all utensils for two or three persons in 
 each tent in Palestine; breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with tea or 
 coffee, except at Jaffa and Jerusalem, or at Damascus and Beyrout, 
 where hotel accommodation may be substituted for camp. See 
 pages 83 to 85. 
 
 8. Hotel accommodation in Continental Europe for fifteen days, in 
 accordance with the ordinary provisions of first-class hotels. Hotel 
 accommodation in Egypt and for the advertised time in Constanti- 
 nople and Athens. 
 
 4. Omnibus and baggage transfers between stations and hotels, from 
 Paris and back to Paris, 60 lbs. of baggage free all the way from 
 London to Palestine and back. Excess luggage will be charged for. 
 Landing and embarkation charges at Brindisi, Corfu, Alexandria, 
 Port Said, Jaffa, Beyrout, Cyprus, Rhodes, Smyrna, Constantinople, 
 Pirasus, Trieste, and Venice. Grratuities to steamboat stewards, 
 hotel porters, and camp servants. 
 
47 
 
 5. Carriage Drive at Alexandria. — ^^Carriages from Cairo to Pyramids 
 
 of Ghizeh and back, also excursion to Sakkarah. Passengers who 
 include the Nile will visit Sakkarah on the Nile voyage, and not as 
 an excursion from Cairo. Sheikh's fee at the Pyramids, and fees of 
 admission to Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem (Grand Mosque at 
 Damascus, Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople, and once to 
 the ruins of the Acropolis at Athens). 
 
 6. If the number of either Section of the Parties which visit Smyrna 
 
 reaches twenty, and the time is convenient, a special train will be 
 given for a trip from Smyrna to Ephesns and back. 
 Trifling incidental expenses not included in the above provisions must 
 be defrayed by the travellers. Thos. Cook & Son have tried to cover 
 all absolutely necessary expenses incidental to the tours. 
 
 In all cases above where second or third class railway travelling is 
 referred to, the distinction applies to the ordinary rate of fares and 
 accoDimodations. All other accommodations are the same for both 
 classes, in hotels, on sea, or in camp. 
 
 THE TARES DO NOT INCLUDE 
 
 Carriages, boats, or guides except those specified above ; wine or other 
 drink not supplied ordinarily at table d'h6te ; fees or gratuities for 
 admission at any place not named above. In other places the Conductor 
 will divide these trifling charges among the party, and accept their 
 respective proportions. The fares for the tours which include Palinyra 
 do not include backsheesh to the Sheikhs, which the dragoman will 
 make as hght as possible, but which cannot be estimated, being a matter 
 of negotiation. 
 
 PARES FROM OTHER PLACES THAN LONDON, AND 
 FOR OTHER ROUTES, 
 
 WUl be calculated on the principle of reduction or addition, according 
 to the tickets required. The routes are too various, and the points 
 from which bookings can be arranged too numerous, to admit of the 
 publication of all sectional rates. The engagement for Palestine must 
 be considered absolute, as the contractors cannot make returns for non- 
 completion of the tours for which provision has been made. 
 
 PASSENGERS GOING IN ADVANCE. 
 
 Arrangements will be made for those who find it necessary to travel in 
 advance of this party, and then join the party at Paris or at some convenient 
 point in Italy, to enable them to do so. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICES. 
 
 Deposits of £b each must be paid 14 days before the advertised date 
 of departure, after which the Fares must be paid in fuU. 
 
 If any having paid deposits are not able to go, and they give notice to that 
 effect not later than two weeks before the time of departure, the amount will be 
 returned less 10 per cent, of the amount deposited, for office expenses. 
 
 All Tickets will be held by the Conductor till required, and he will pay all 
 accounts, except for wine and other extras, which must be paid for when ordered. 
 Any of the party desiring to break off from the programme will be supplied 
 
48 
 
 with Travelling Tickets due to them for the time they wish to absent themselves ; 
 but whilst traveUing together the Conductor can make united arrangements to 
 the advantage of the travellers and the hotels. 
 
 Passports are required for all passengers landing at all Turkish ports. Full 
 instructions will be forwarded by Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son upon application. 
 
 CAUTION APPLYING TO ALL ABBANGEMENTS 
 PQB EASTEBN TOUBS. 
 
 Thos. Cook & Soif do not hold themselves responsible for loss of time or 
 money consequent on the irregularity of steamboat or railway service, sickness, 
 war, quarantine, or any calamity or hindrance caused by circumstances over 
 which they have no control. 
 
 Bagsagh. — All practical assistance in the registration and care of baggage, 
 and its passage through Custom-houses, will be afforded by the conductors and. 
 agents of the contractors for the tours, but they cannot be responsible for losses 
 by damage, robberies or detention, and at every Custom-house and transfer of 
 baggage its owners should satisfy themselves that it is safe. 
 
 N.B. — Great care will be taken in the registration and conveyance of the 
 trunks or portmanteaus of the parties whilst travelling with the Conductor ; 
 but it must be distinctly understood that all small packages, such as hand-bags, 
 umbrellas, travelling-rugs, &o., must remain entirely under the control of the 
 passenger. 
 
 No coupons must be withdrawn from the books except by the ticket collectors, 
 but passengers must see that the proper leaves are withdrawn or clipped for 
 each section of the tours. 
 
 No Book of Travelling Coupons from which a leaf is withdrawn can be 
 accepted for repayment ; and no repayments for unused books can be made 
 except' at the Chief OfBce, Ludgate Circus, London. No agent is authorised to 
 exchange tickets, or to make any repayments. Entire books of Travelling 
 Coupons will be repaid for at a reduction of 10 per cent, if returned within 
 twenty days from the date of issue (with a few exceptions), provided satis- 
 factory reasons are given for their return. Partly-used, clipped, or mutilated 
 Travelling Coupons cannot be accepted for repayment. 
 
 It should be borne in mind that Cook's Travelling Coupons are issued by 
 Thos. Cook & Son in their capacity as Agents for the various Railway, 
 Diligence, and Steamship Companies, and that they cannot be responsible for 
 errors, either on the part of the passengers or of officials, arising from non- 
 compliance with the instructions, which are plainly printed in the cover of 
 every book of coupons. 
 
 Unused Hotel Coupons will be repaid at the Chief Office, Ludgate 
 Circus, London, either singly or in books, less 10 per cent. The covers should 
 be presented with the Coupons, or some means adopted to ensure the ready 
 identification of the person requesting payment with the one to whom the 
 Coupons were originally issued. 
 
 Depositors not being able to make the tour for which they have 
 been registered may find substitutes, subject to the approval of Messrs. 
 Thomas Cook & Son ; or, on giving ten days' notice before the time 
 appointed for their departure, will have their deposits repaid at a 
 discount of 10 per cent. 
 
 All fares must be paid before departure. Any money deposited over 
 and above the fares will be repaid in the currency and at the rate of 
 exchange in the country where it is required. 
 
49 
 
 THEOUG-H PABES TBOM AUSTRALIA 
 
 Will be quoted on application at the Australasian Offices of Thos. 
 Cook & Son, at Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland. 
 
 THROUGH FARES FROM INDIA 
 
 Will be quoted on application to the Indian offices of Thos. Cook 
 AHD Son, at Bombay or Calcutta. 
 
 THROUGH PARES FROM AMERICA 
 
 Can be ascertained on application to the office of Thos. Cook & Son, 
 261-262, Broadway, New York. 
 
 PASSENGERS PROM LONDON AND ELSEWHERE 
 
 Will find it to their interest to take Through Tickets, which may be 
 had by any route, and will secure the best accommodation in the East. 
 Many who have not previously taken through tickets failed to get 
 steamboat accommodation on the Syrian Coast, and lost the opportunity 
 of visiting Palestine. 
 
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51 
 
 COOK'S INDEPENDENT TOURS TO PALESTINE. 
 
 Available for one or more persons at any time during the season. 
 
 The following Itloeraries are shown as examples of what may be accomplished under 
 Thos. Cook & Son's arrangements for independent travel. Tickets can be supplied by 
 any route and for any number of persons. Fares for special Itineraries or parties of a 
 larger number than eight will be furnished upon application. 
 
 London, Dover, Calais, Paris, 
 Turin, Bologna, Brindisi, 
 Austrian Lloyd's Steamer, 
 Alexandria, Cairo, IsmaUia, 
 Port Said, Jaffa, month's 
 tour in Palestine, Beyrout, 
 Austrian. Lloyd's Steamer, 
 Jaffa, Alexandria, Trieste, 
 Venice, Milan, Turin, Paris, 
 Calais, London, or vice versa. 
 
 First Class 
 
 Second Class Bailway and 
 Saloon Steamer... 
 
 London, Dover, Calais, Paris, 
 Turin, Bologna, Brindisi, 
 Austrian Lloyd's Steamer, 
 Alexandria, Cairo, Ismailia, 
 Port Said, Jaffa, month's 
 tour in Palestine, Beyrout, 
 Smyrna, Constantinople, 
 Athens,TrieBte,Tenice,Milan, 
 Turin, Paris, Calais, London, 
 or vice versa. 
 
 First Class 
 
 Second Class Bailway and 
 Saloon Steamer 
 
 London, Dover, Calais, Paris, 
 Turin, Bologna, Brindisi, 
 Austrian Lloyd's Steamer, 
 Alexandria, Cairo, Ismailia, 
 Port Said, Jaffa, six weeks' 
 tour in Palestine, Beyrout, 
 Austrian Lloyd's Steamer, 
 Jaffa, Alexandria, Trieste, 
 Venice, Milan, Turin, Paris, 
 Calais, Dover, London, or 
 vice versa. 
 
 First Class 
 
 Second Class Eailway and 
 Saloon Steamer 
 
 Quotations for Shorter or more 
 Extended Tours will be given 
 on application at any of the 
 Offices of Tho3. Cook & Son. 
 
 STrPPLEMENTAI. FAEES. 
 
 Going from Turin, vid Genoa, 
 Florence, Rome, Naples, and 
 Taranto. 
 
 1 Person. 
 £ s. d. 
 
 2 Persons. 
 £ s. d. 
 
 149 10 
 142 
 
 156 5 
 149 10 
 
 191 10 
 184 
 
 238 
 223 
 
 251 
 237 10 
 
 294 
 279 
 
 4 Persons. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 445 
 415 
 
 470 10 
 443 10 
 
 529 
 499 
 
 G Persons. 
 
 £ 9. d. 
 
 B22 
 .>77 
 
 b60 
 619 10 
 
 734 
 689 
 
 ( 1st class 
 [ 2ni class 
 
 13s 
 
 ^ each passenger. 
 
 8 Persons. 
 £ a. d. 
 
 799 
 739 
 
 849 10 
 795 10 
 
 939 
 879 
 
52 
 
 TO 
 
 BEYROUT, BAALBEC, AND DAMASCUS. 
 
 The following Itineraries give some idea of the short touis which can be per- 
 formed from Beyrout to Baalbec, Damascus, &c. The cotintry round Beyrout 
 is very beautiful, and, although there is a paucity of objects of interest, the 
 drives and rides in the neighbourhood weU repay the traveller. There is a good 
 carriage road now constructed from Beyrout to the dog-river (Nahr-el-Kelp), 
 the principal object of interest in the neighbourhood, where some ancient 
 inscriptions are to be seen. The drive there and back occupies from four to 
 five hours, and the usual charge is about 16s. Carriages taken in Bejrrout for 
 the short drives in the neighbourhood are to be had for two francs an hour, 
 except on Sundays, when the charge is rather higher. 
 
 ITINERARY I. 
 First day. — Diligence from Beyrout to Stora, and private carriage to Baalbec, 
 Second day. — To be spent at Baalbec, visiting the ruins. 
 Third day. — Carriage to Stora and diligence to Beyrout. 
 
 ITINERARY II. 
 Same route as No. I., but providing for private carriage between Beyrout and 
 Stora and back, instead of diligence. 
 
 ITINERARY III. 
 
 First day.— Diligence from Beyrout to Stora, and private carriage from 
 Stora to Baalbec. 
 
 Second day. — To be spent at Baalbec, visiting the ruins. 
 
 Third day. — Private carriage to Stora and diligence to Damascus. 
 
 Eourth, Fifth, and Sixth days in Damascus. 
 
 ' Seventh day. — Return by diligence to Beyrout. 
 
 ITINERARY IV. 
 Same route as No. III., but providing for private carriage between Beyrout 
 and Stora, and Stora and Damascus and back, instead of dUigence. 
 
 ITINERARY V. 
 
 First day. — Diligence from Beyrout to Damascus. 
 
 Second, Third, and Fourth days.— In Damascus. 
 Stfra to iTalbe^.'^'^^'"'^ *™"' Damascus to Stora, and private carriage from 
 
 Sixth day.— To be spent in Baalbec, visiting the ruins. 
 
 Seventh day.— Private carriage to Stora and diligence to Beyrout. 
 ITINERARY VI. 
 
 Same route as No. V., but providing for private carriage between Beyrout and 
 Damascus, and Damascus and Stora and Beyrout, instead of diligence. 
 .J^^^ ^^1.°^^ Itineraries will give the traveller an idea of the manner in which 
 the Baaibec and Damascus tours can be accomplished, but they can be altered 
 in any way that may be thought preferable or more convenient, and the tours 
 may be combined in any way with routes from London or the chief cities of 
 the Continent ; and ctuotations of fare for any definite route wiU be furnished 
 upon application, ^ 
 
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 The following table of fares is shown for the oonvenienee of travellers by any 
 of the Short Palestine Tours advertised on page 70 who extend their journey to 
 Beyrout, Baalbeo, and Damascus,' including steamer from JajBEa *o Beyrout : — 
 
 ). oC Persons, 
 
 le person 
 ro persons 
 iree persons 
 ur persons 
 t persons 
 ght persons 
 n persons 
 
 Itinerary I. | Itinerary II. I Itinerary III. 
 
 JafEa to 
 Beyrout by 
 steamer and 
 diligence Bey- 
 rout. Baalbeo, 
 and back. 
 
 ' Jaffa to 
 I Beyrout by 
 I steamer, and 
 private carriage 
 j Beyrout, Baal- 
 beo, and back. 
 
 1 
 
 JafEa to 
 Beyrout by 
 steamer, and 
 diligence Bey- 
 rout, Baalbec. 
 Damascus, and 
 back. 
 
 £ a. d. 
 
 10 
 
 17 
 
 24 
 
 31 
 
 46 
 
 60 
 
 73 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 27 10 
 
 31 10 
 
 36 10 
 
 4L 
 
 71 
 
 80 
 
 88 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 
 15 10 
 
 28 
 
 40 
 
 .'52 
 
 77 
 
 101 
 
 123 
 
 Itinerary IT. Itinerary V. 
 
 JafEa to 
 Beyrout by 
 steamer, and 
 private carriage 
 Beyrout, Baal- 
 bec, Damascu-, 
 and back. 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 
 37 
 
 46 
 
 54 
 
 62 
 
 102 
 
 118 
 
 .135 
 
 Jaffa to 
 Beyrout by 
 steamer, and 
 diligence Bey- 
 rout, Damascus, 
 and Baalbec. 
 
 Itinerary VI. 
 
 Jaffa to 
 
 Beyrout by 
 
 steamer, and 
 
 private carriage 
 
 Beyrout, 
 
 Damascus, 
 
 Baalbec, and 
 
 back. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 15 10 
 
 2S 
 
 40 
 
 52 
 
 77 
 
 101 
 
 123 
 
 £ a. d. 
 37 
 
 46 
 
 54 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 102 
 118 
 135 
 
 The foregoing fares include steamer from Jaffa to Beyrout, expenses of 
 landing at Beyrout, diligence or carriage as specified, hotel accommodation, 
 dragoman, and, in those tours which include Damascus, carriage drive in the 
 city and fees for sight-seeing. 
 
 The Austrian Lloyd's steamers leave Jaffa fortnightly, Monday. Arrive 
 Beyrout on Tuesday. 
 
 The Austrian Lloyd's Steamers leave Beyrout every alternate Wednesday. 
 Arrive at Jaffa on Thursday. 
 
 The Messageries Steamers leave Jaffa every alternate Sunday from January 7, 
 1889. Arrive Beyrout following day. 
 
 The Messageries Steamers leave Bejrrout every alternate Monday. Arrive 
 Jaffa following day. 
 
 The Russian Steamers leave Jaffa every alternate Tuesday from January 2. 
 Arrive Beyrout following day. 
 
 The Russian Steamers leave Beyrout every alternate Monday from January 8. 
 Arrive JaiEa following day. 
 
 The Egyptian Steamers leave Jaffa every Friday. Arrive Beyrout following 
 day. 
 
 The Egyptian Steamers leave Beyrout every Wednesday. Arrive Jaffa 
 following day. 
 
54 
 
 DAILY ITINERARY OF DESERT TOUR 
 
 From Cairo Arift Mount Sinai, Gaza, and Bethlebem to 
 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 FiEST Day. — Leave Cairo by train for Suez. (Suez Hotel.) 
 
 Seconi) Dat. — Leave Suez about 8'0 a.m., sail along'- the Red Sea, reaching 
 Ayn Musa about 12'0 noon. The camels and camp wiU be here in readiness for 
 the journey across the Desert. 
 
 Thied Dat.— Start at 8-0 a.m. for "Wady Wardan, which is reached about 
 6'30 p.m. A break is made at 12'30 for lunch. 
 
 FoiTETH Day.— Leave Wady Wardan about S'O a,m. for Wady Grhul-undel, 
 supposed to be the Elim of the Scriptures; lunch at 12 '30, arriving about 
 5-30 p.m. 
 
 Fifth Day.— Leave Wady Ghurundel at S'O a.m., passing through Wady 
 Taizibah, a very beautiful valley. 
 
 SrxiH Day. — Start at S'O a.m. The scenery to be viewed during the ride is 
 very fine. In the afternoon Pharaoh's quarries are reached. These caves are 
 very low, and all around are to be seen the marks of the tools wielded by the 
 ancients. 
 
 Seventh Day. — Start atV'lS a.m., passing through a very wild and desolate 
 tract of country. At 5 o'clock Wady Feiran, the Eephedim of Exodus, is 
 reached. In the surrounding hiUs many caves are to be found which served as 
 habitations during the 5th and 6th centuries for the hermits of those periods. 
 On the top of a higher hill a church is to be seen which is supposed to cover 
 the spot where Moses stood to watch the battle against Amalek. 
 
 Eighth Day. — Ascend the hill to view the church above referred to. From 
 here a fine view of Mount Serbal is obtained. Leave Wady Feiran, reaching 
 Wady Schekh about 5-0 p.m., and camp for the night. 
 
 NdtthDay. — Leave Wady Schekh about S'O a.m., pass through WughHawa, 
 or Pass of the Wind, from the end of which the first view of Mount Sinai is 
 obtained. Cross the Plain of El Raha, the Rest, and encamp at the foot ©f 
 Mount Sinai in the valley of Jethro, just below the Convent. 
 
 Tenth Day. — May be spent in visiting the Convent, which is now open 
 freely to visitors, who are shown the Chapel of the Burning Bush. This 
 Chapel contains an altar, on which is a gilt plate, said to be on the site of the 
 Burning Bush seen by Moses when he was called to his special work as leader 
 of the Israelites. The Library is also well worth an inspection, containing as 
 it does some very valuable volumes. 
 
 ElEVENTH Day. — Ascend Mount Sinai, passing the Fountain of Moses, the 
 Chapel of Santa Maria, the Needle's Eye (a small arch at which pilgrims 
 formerly paid toll), the Chapels of Elijah and Elisha. In the Chapel of Elijah 
 is shown the cave where the prophet hid from Jezebel. On the top of Jebel 
 Moosa, which is 7,000 feet above the sea level, there is a modern Turkish 
 mosque. From the top of this mountain can be seen, in fine weather, the 
 promontory at the south of the Peninsula^ the Gulf of Akabar, and the Red Sea. 
 Proceed to Ras Sufsafeh, which tradition says is the point from which the 
 Commandments were given. From this point a very fine view is obtained of 
 the plain of El Rahah, where the Israelites encamped. 
 
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 TwELMH Day. — Journey along the Wady Schekh, where the scenery is 
 very fine. 
 
 Thieteenih Day.— Start at 7"0 a.m., getting through Wady Schekh, and 
 eater a very rugged, narrow pass, the Wady Slat', encamping at the end of it 
 about 5'0 p.m. 
 
 FoTJETEENTH Day. — Breakfast at 5'0 a.m., and start immediately for Serabid- 
 el-Khadem. On the way to the camp, which is reached about 6 "30, pass some 
 old Egyptian mines. 
 
 FrFTEENTH Day. — Start at 8'0 a.m., and, riding for two hours, reach the 
 foot of the Et Tih range of mountains, which are crossed on foot in about two 
 hours. Fossil shells are to be found in abundance on these hills. 
 
 Sixteenth Day, — To be spent in the "Wady Boutehgenah. 
 
 Seventeenth Day. — Breakfast at 6'0 a.m., and start at 7"30 a.m. along 
 the Wady Sheik, which is the largest wady in the Desert. The hills are nearly 
 nil limestone, and therefore rather trying to the eyes. 
 
 Eighteenth Day. — Breakfast at 6'0 a.m. and start at 7"0 a.m. for Nakhl, 
 crossing the Wady Sih, in which the Israelites wandered during the forty years 
 assigned to them. Nakhl is a fort held by the Turks, and is used as the com- 
 missariat station for the Mecca pilgrims; but its general appearance will 
 produce no very great impression of its use either as a fort or anything else. 
 
 Nineteenth Day.— Breakfast at 6*30, and start about 8-0 a.m. ; and after 
 passing through very wild and grand scenery, reach Wady Grayah about 
 5'0 p.m., and camp for the night. 
 
 Twentieth Day. — A day of rest. 
 
 TwENTY-Frasi Day. — ^Breakfast at 6-0 and start at 7'0 a.m., and encamp 
 for the night at Wady Mastaba. 
 
 Twenty-Second Day.— Breakfast at 6-30 and start at 8'0 a.m. ; pass through , 
 Wady Sasa, and about 10'30 enter Wady Muweileh. 
 
 Twenty-Thied Day. — Breakfast at 6'30 and start at7'45 a.m., and encamp 
 for the night in Wady Grhurm, which is reached after a very interesting ride 
 through pleasant scenery and partially cultivated land. 
 
 Twenty-Fotjeth Day. — Breakfast at 6-30, and start at 7-45 a.m. In the 
 afternoon Wady Ghuzzeh is reached. Encamp in the Wady Hascif. 
 
 Twenty-Fifth Day. — Breakfast at 6-0 a.m., and start for Gaza or Ghuzzeh, 
 which is approached from the south through orchards surrounded by prickly 
 pe^r, and encamp outside the town. Telegrams and letters may be sent from 
 here to England, &c. 
 
 TwBNTY-firsTH Day. — Breakfast at 6-30, and then enter Gaza. Amongst the 
 interesting places to be seen are the Mosque of Jami-el-Kebir, the Greek 
 Church, the reputed site of the Gates borne away by Samson, and other places 
 connected with the history of Samson. 
 
 Twbnty-Sevenih Day. — A day of rest. 
 
 Twenty-Eighth Day. — Breakfast at 5'30, and start about 6'30 a.m. for 
 Beit Jebrin, encamping for the night at Zeiteh. 
 
 Twenty-Ninth Day. — Start about 70 a.m., Beit Jebrin being _ reached 
 about 8'30. Beit Jebrin, which is said to be the Ancient Gath, contains some 
 very fine ruins. Leaving Beit Jebrin about 12'0 noon, Hebron is reached 
 about 7'0 p.m. 
 
 Thieiieih Day. — Visit the exterior of the Mosque, which is supposed to be 
 built on the site of the Cave of Machpelah and the Sarcophagi of Abraham, 
 Isaac, and Jacob. Next visit Abraham's oak, thirty-two feet in circumference 
 at its base. 
 
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 After about half an hour's walk, the junction of the Bethlthemroad is 
 reached, and here the Camels are waiting, and, proceeding on the journey, ^ 
 
 Solomon's Pools are reached about 5'0 p.m. These Pools, as will be remembered | 
 
 by the Biblical student, are used for supplying Jerusalem with water. 
 
 Thietx-Fiest Day.— Spend the day in Bethlehem, visitiug the Greek Church 
 and the supposed places of interest connected with the birth of our Lord. / 
 
 Proceed via Mar-Saba to the Kedron Valley, and encamp for the night. 
 
 ThietT" Second Day.— Start about 7-0 o'clockj and about ll'O reach the Dead / 
 
 Sea. After lunch leave for the Jordan, which is about one and a half hour's 
 journey from the Dead Sea. Proceed to Jericho, and encamp for the night. 
 
 Thikix-Thiei) Day.— Start about 90 a.m., passing Elisha's Fountain and 
 Bethany, arriving at Jerusalem towards evening. 
 
 The foregoing Daily Itinerary of Desert Tour has been compiled by 
 Mr. F. H. OooK^ and shows the exact time he occupied, and provides for 
 resting in camp every Sunday. Allowing for rest in the heat of the 
 day for lunch, the ' average time occupied in travelling is about six to 
 seven hours per day. 
 
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 ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 
 
 rOK PHrVATE AND INDEPENDENT 
 
 TOURS IN EGYPT, PALESTINE, 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE EAST. 
 
 The following Itineraries will be worked out under the supervision of the 
 Palestine representative of Thos. Cook & Son, who will have the selection 
 of the best dragomans that can be found in the country, such dragomans 
 being under his control. 
 
 Parties in any numbers can select any of the following Itineraries, and travel 
 quite independent of any other parties, having their own dragomans and camp 
 servants. 
 
 The scale of charges will be regulated by the numbers, from two to ten 
 persons ; ten and upwards being the numbers for which the lowest uniform 
 charges are made. Quotations of fares will be given when the numbers are 
 made up and the routes to and through Palestine are determined upon, or we 
 can furnish tickets to travel by any line of Atlantic Steamers, and by any 
 route over the European continent, and it will be to the interest of travellers to 
 take through tickets from America, England, or elsewhere, to Palestine. 
 
 The long experience of Thos. Cook & Son in organising Palestine Tours 
 enables them to offer every possible facility to every description of traveller. 
 They have the best and most reliable dragomans in the country at their dis- 
 posal, the best stock of camp equipment. The food while in camp is ample 
 and of the best quality, and is served in a manner equal to a first-class conti- 
 nental hotel. 
 
 The journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem or vice versa may be made either by 
 horse, resting for one night en route, or by ordinary carriage, or by a superior 
 description of landau in one day. 
 
 For those who wish to study economy and at the same time visit the Holy 
 Land under the protection of and with the advantages of Thos. Cook & Son's- 
 arrangements, special fares will be quoted upon application, to include horse 
 and dragoman, sleeping accommodation at convents and private houses (bedding 
 provided by T. C. & S.). 
 
 PALESTINE ITINERARIES. 
 
 We commence with the shortest of our tours, and extend the arraagements 
 to the longest, embracing the Desert and the country east of the Jordan. 
 
 FIRST ITINERABY. 
 For a Twelve Days' Tour in Judea. 
 
 First Day.— Travel from Jaffa to Ramleh (three hours' ride), vid Yasur and. 
 BeitDejan. Carriages can go through to Jerusalem in one day, but horses take 
 two days. 
 
 Second Day. — Ride from Ramleh to Jerusalem (eight hours), vid the Valley of 
 Ajalon, Kirjath-Jearim, Kolonieh (the traditional Emmaus). 
 
 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Days. — To be spent in and about Jerusalem. 
 
 Sixth Day. — From Jerusalem to Mar-Saba (seven hours' ride), vid Rachel's 
 Tomb, Solomon's Pools, Etam, Bethlehem, Shepherd's Field, Field of Boaz, and 
 over the hills of the Wilderness of Judea ; encamp in the Kedron Valley. 
 
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 Seventh Day. — Proceed from Mar- Saba to Jericho (eight hours' ride) through 
 the Wilderness of Judea, to the Dead Sea, Jordan, and site of Gilgal. 
 
 Eighth Day. — Travel from Jericho to Jerusalem (six hours' ride), via the 
 Brook Cherith, site of the Samaritan Inn, Enshemesh, Bethany, and the Mount 
 
 Olives. 
 
 Ninth Day. — Make an excursion to Anathoth, Geha, Eamah, Gibeah, Nob, 
 and back to Jerusalem (five hours' ride). 
 
 Tenth Day. — Excursion to Philip's Fountain, Bethel, and back to Jerusalem 
 (five hours' ride). 
 
 Eleventh Day. — Travel from Jerusalem to Ramleh (eight hours' ride), via 
 Neby Samwil, Gibeon, the Two Bethorons, and Gimzo. 
 
 Twelfth Day.— From Eamleh to Jaffa, via Lydda, Beth Dijon. Yasur (four 
 hours' ride). The journey the direct way can be made in a day, either by car- 
 riages or by tolerably good riders on horseback. The descent of nearly 3,000 
 feet from Jerusalem to the sea is favourable to the rider in that direction, 
 whether by carriage or in the saddle. At Jaffa, the returning traveller is sub- 
 ject to the caprice of winds, waves, and steamboat sailings, which frequently 
 render embarkation a matter of great uncertainty. Nevertheless it is necessary 
 to be there at the time appointed for sailing. 
 
 SECOND ITINEBART. 
 
 Combimng the Land of Judea with Phllistia. 
 
 JafEa to Jerusalem, by carriage or riding-horse, as shown in the First Itinerary. 
 Make the stay at Jerusalem to correspond with the time required for the fol- 
 lowing fourteen or fifteen days' trip. 
 
 Sixth Day. — Make an excursion to Neby Samwil (Mizpeh), Gibeon, Kamah, 
 Nob, Tombs of the Kings, back to Jerusalem (five hours). 
 
 Seventh Day. — Make an excursion to Philip's Fountain, Bethel, and back to 
 Jerusalem (about five hours). 
 
 Eighth Day. — Jerusalem to Jericho, by the Mount of Olives, Bethany, and 
 down the hilly road by the Brook Cherith to the Plains of Jericho, a ride of about 
 six hours. Encamp near the Fountain of Elisha (about six hours' ride). 
 
 Ninth Day. — Hide across the plain, about four miles to the Jordan, and from 
 thence to the Dead Sea. After lunch proceed across the plain and through zig- 
 zag mountain passes to Mar-Saba. After viewing the convent, encamp for the 
 night in the valley of the Kedron. Day's ride about eight hours. 
 
 Tenth Day. — Proceed from the camping-ground to Bethlehem, crossing the 
 field "where shepherds watched their fiocks by night." Several hours may be 
 spent in examining the church, grottoes, and other places of interest in the famed 
 historic city, after which proceed to Solomon's Pools by way of Rachel's Tomb, 
 and encamp near the upper pool. This is not a heavy day, the ride being but 
 about six hours. 
 
 Eleventh Day. — From Solomon's Pools to Hebron, by the course of the ancient 
 royal road, and through the valley of Eshcol, passing near to Abraham's Oak, 
 Encamp at Hebron, and see there all that may be seen of the cave of Maohpelah. 
 The ride from four to five hours. 
 
 Twelfth Day. — From Hebron to Beit Jibrin, passing at a short distance from 
 the Caves of EleutheropoUs, which may be partially visited in the day, the ride 
 being not more than about six hours to the camping-ground. 
 
 Thirteenth Day. — Pass through the famed Vale of Elah, where the Philistines, 
 with Goliath, defied the armies of Israel, and where David gained his signal 
 victory over the giant. Proceed by Bethshemesh to Gath and encamp there ; 
 a moderate day's riae of seven to eight hours. 
 
Fourteenth or Fifteenth Day.— Complete the tour from Gath to Jaffa, across 
 the Plain of Sharon, a journey of six to seven hours; wait arrival of steamer 
 at the Jerusalem Hotel, delightfully situated on the eminence overlooking the 
 orange groves and the sea. 
 
 THIRD ITINERABY. 
 Comprising a greater extent of Philistia with the Land of 
 
 Judea. 
 
 This is a tour by carriage or riding-horse from Jaffa to Jerusalem ; camping 
 arrangements from Jerusalem to Jerioho, the Jordan, Dead Sea, Mar-Saba, 
 Bethlehem, Solomon's Poolsj Hebron, &c., to Beit Jibrin, same as described in 
 the Second Itinerary, rectmring to that point twelve days, and from thence 
 taking the following course : 
 
 Thirteenth Day. — Beit Jibrin to Gaza, passing Ain Lachish and Eglon. 
 Encamp at Gaza and spend Sunday there, if possible so to arrange. Gaza is a 
 considerable city, with schools and other Christian agencies in operation. 
 
 Fourteenth Day. — Of actual travel, take the course byAskelon, Migdal Gad, 
 and camp at Aehdod for the night. 
 
 Fifteenth Day. — Completing the tour by Ekron to Jaffa, passing en route the 
 Jews' model farm and colony. This tour will occupy about 15 days, giving four 
 or five days to Jerusalem. 
 
 These Itineraries, Nos. 2 and 3, had better not be attempted in wet weather, 
 as the low-lying lands of Philistia are frequently rendered impassable by storms 
 and floods. 
 
 FOURTH ITINERARY. 
 
 First of the Tours going North of Jerusalem. 
 
 First and Second Days. — Jaffa to Jerusalem by carriage or riding horse, as 
 in the three previous tours. Stay at Jerusalem to be governed by the sailing 
 of steamers and the time required for travelling after leaving the holy city. 
 
 Tenth Day. — Proceed from Jerusalem to Ram Allah, via Nob, Gibeah, 
 liamah, Beerath, Bethel. Encamp in the valley or on the high land of Singel. 
 A day's ride of about six hours. 
 
 Eleventh Day. — Pass over the valley and gentle slopes of Shiloh, and from 
 thence to the great and fruitful plain of Beulah ; call at Jacob's Well, and then 
 ride through the interesting valley, on the sides of which rise the mountain ranges 
 of Ebal and Gerizim. Near the entrance to the valley is the reputed tomb of 
 Joseph, where his remains were buried after being brought up from the 
 land of Egypt. Encamp at Nablous, the ancient Shechem, the home of all 
 that remains of the sect of Samaritans, where old copies of the Pentateuch 
 are sacredly kept in a poor little building occupied as their " Temple." The 
 Tide of the day about eight hours. 
 
 Twelfth Day. — To Samaria and back to Nablous. Visit the ruins on the top 
 of Mount Gerizim (six hours' ride). 
 
 Thirteenth or Fourteenth Day. — WiU be occupied in poing from Nablous to 
 Jaffa. The ride occupies ten hours. The road between Nablous and Jaffa has 
 been " improved " after the Turkish fashion, but is not yet available for wheels. 
 
 FIFTH ITINERARY. 
 
 Including all of the Fourth, and extending to the Sea of 
 
 Galilee, Nazareth, and Carmel. 
 
 For five days the route and travel the same as the Fourth Itinerary, and 
 
 "then pursuing the northerly course to Samaria and other places as shown below : 
 
 Twelfth Day. — Leave Nablous by well-watered and well-cultivated grounds 
 
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 and orchards in the direction of Samaria, the site of the' Ivory Palace of 
 Ahab. Interesting ruins of a Crusader's temple, associated with legends of the 
 tomhs of John the Baptist, Elizabeth, and others of Scriptiffal associations. 
 Beautiful slopes on the northern side of the hill, and a rich plain with broken 
 granite columns lying about in all direction's. Pass near to the Tillage of 
 Dothan, where Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelitish merchants, and halt for the 
 night at Jenin, after a ride of about eight hours. 
 
 Thirteenth Day. — Leaving Jenin, enter on the great plain of Eadraelonj pass 
 by Jezreel, the Fountain of Gideon, Shunem, and other interesting localities, to 
 the foot of Mount Tabor, and encamp there, at a short distance from Nain and 
 Endor. A day's ride of about seven hours. 
 
 Fourteenth Day.— Travel from Mount Tabor to Tiberias, and halt for the 
 night on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where a day or more may be spent at 
 the discretion of the travellers. The journey from Tabor to Tiberias need not 
 exceed about five hours. 
 
 Fifteenth Day. — Visit Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, Magdala, and back 
 to Tiberias (seven hours). 
 
 Sixteenth Day. — Ascend from the shores of the lake, by the Mount of 
 Beatitudes, to Kenna or Cana of Galilee, to Nazareth, a journey of about six 
 hours. Contrive, if possible, td spend Sunday at this deeply interesting, 
 historical village, where ancient sites are the subjects of contention between 
 Greek and Latin Christians, and where a beautiful edifice has been erected for 
 Protestant worship. 
 
 Seventeenth Day. — To be spent at Nazareth. 
 
 Eighteenth Day. — Travel from Nazareth to Carmel, crossing the river Kishon, 
 and passing near to the place of sacrifice. Catfa, at foot of Mount Carmel, is 
 being rapidly brought under cultivation by a colony of Germans, who have 
 built an hotel and a number of cottages. Here a day or two may be pleasantly 
 spent if the travelling and steamer arrangements are carefully calculated. The 
 Austrian Lloyd's steamers call at Catfa on their passage both ways between 
 Alexandria and Beyrout. The tour should be arranged to harmonise 
 with the steamboat service, which is fortnightly both ways, or the journey 
 may be continued in two days to Jaffa, via Tautura (Dara), Csesarea, and the 
 river Anjeb. 
 
 SIXTH ITINERARY. 
 
 Embracing all of the Fifth as far as Calfa, and including the 
 Coast Route by Tyre and Sidon to Beyrout, 
 
 After the ten days of travel described in the Fifth Itinerary, the Sixth Tour 
 may be accomplished by four additional days, as shown below : 
 
 Nineteenth Day. — Travel from Catfa to Acre ; visit the ancient fortress, and 
 encamp at Achzib — not a heavy day if the weather is favourable. Five or six 
 hours in the saddle. 
 
 Twentieth Day. — Ascend the ladder of Tyre — a rough and difficult way, 
 greatly improved — to the city of Tyre. Ancient fountains, the reputed tomb of 
 Hiram, king of Tyre, and submerged ruins, engage the attention of traveillers 
 here, where the camp will be stationed for a night, after a ride of perhaps 
 six to seven hours. 
 
 Twenty-first Day. — Travel by Sarepta to Sidon, another moderate riding day 
 of six or seven hours, to the camping-ground of Sidon, the city so frequently 
 associated in the sacred history with Tyre. 
 
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 Twenty-second Day. — From Sidon to Beyrout is a coast journey of seven 
 to eight hours, and this day completes our Sixth Itinerary. Beyrout is a 
 delightful place to rest in after a journey through Palestine, and there is more 
 certainty of embarking than at JaSa. 
 
 SEVEH"TH ITINERARY. 
 The Beaten Track of a Thirty Days' Tour in Palestine. 
 
 This Itinerary has been frequently described in the programmes of our 
 Personally Conducted Tours. In the late autumn we prefer to travel from 
 north to south, thus going with the season. In the spring the contrary way 
 is preferable, as the way of the Lebanon and Mount Hermon is frequently 
 snowed up in the early part of the year. 
 
 Twelve days are shown in the Fifth Itinerary to Jenin, and from that point 
 we travel on the 
 
 Thirteenth Day — To Nazareth, crossing the Plain of Esdraelon by Jpzreel, 
 Gideon's Fountain, Shunem, leaving to the right Nain, Endor, Mount Tabor, 
 &c., and going by Shunem, across the plain to the foot of the Galilean Hills, 
 the ascent of which to Nazareth requires great care, it being very precipitous, 
 and moderate riders must not expect to accomplish the journey from Jenin to 
 Nazareth in less than seven to eight hours. Again we advise the spending of 
 Sunday at this place of sacred memories. 
 
 Fourteenth Day. — At Nazareth. 
 
 Fifteenth Day. — The journey from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee, by Eenna, 
 or Cana, occupies about six hours in the saddle, or more if the camp is stationed 
 at the head of the lake. If possible two days should be appropriated to this 
 locality, so rich as it is in historical reminiscences, in addition to its pleasant 
 natural attractions. 
 
 Sixteenth Day. — Two ways present themselves from the head of the lake — 
 the site of the ancient Capernaum — to Banias (Csesarea Philippi). The 
 way by the "Waters of Merom occupies two days, and that by Safed and 
 Naphtali takes three days. The latter is the most interesting, and is free from 
 the swamp and damp of the lower road. The choice of these two ways is 
 generally left to the travellers, who may be guided by the state of the weather 
 and the time at their disposal. Assuming that the high road is preferred, 
 three days will be occupied between the Sea of Galilee and Banias, and to that 
 section of the Itinerary we allot the 
 
 Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Days of travel, arriving at Banias 
 on the Nineteenth Day. 
 
 Twentieth Day. — Starting from Banias there is a pretty sharp rise up the 
 slopes of Hermon until an elevation of about 5,000 feet frorg the sea-level is 
 reached. It is a rough way at best, and in stormy weather the most disagree- 
 able part of the journey, often blocked with snow, and then difH.cult to discern 
 the outlines of the track. Eight hours of uninterrupted travel bring the riders 
 to Kefr Hawar, a camping- ground still too elevated and exposed to the rude 
 blasts from Hermon to be very agreeable. It is always pleasant to get safely 
 on the way to the great plain on which Damascus is located, and the 
 
 Twenty-first Day is generally a pleasant ride of about six hours to Damas- 
 cus, where a Sunday and about a couple more days are required to get a good 
 view of the peculiarities of the city. 
 
 Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Days are spent in tra- 
 versing the heisrnts and depth of the Anti-Lebanon, following tor a day or 
 more the course of the Barada (the Abana of Scripture), which is crossed and 
 recrossed at several points. The ride altogether is very fine in good weather. 
 
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 and the day's work not very heavy. "We generally get into Baalbec a little 
 after mid-day on the third day out from Damascus, and a long afternoon and 
 evening and pleasant early morning are consumed amid the ruins of the famed 
 group of demolished temples, which still present features of great artistic beauty 
 and strength. 
 
 Twenty-ninth Day. — A comparatively easy ride of about eight hours down 
 the fertile valley of the Lebanon brings the traveller to a convenient camping- 
 ground, adjacent to the diligence road from Beyrout to Damascus. It is inter- 
 esting to deviate a little from the beaten track, and pass through the Christian 
 village of Zahleh, where the good efEeots of Christian education are seen In the 
 marked decorum of an apparently thriving population. 
 
 Thirtieth Day. — The journey to Beyrout is continued over an excellent 
 coach road rising to an elevation of .5,000 feet and then descending by winding- 
 slopes, with magnificent -scenery on either hand, to the best-built and most 
 prosperous city in Syria. At Beyrout the Itinerary terminates. 
 
 From Beyrout the usual course is to take steamer along the coast to Cyprus, 
 Rhodes, Smyrna, and Constantinople ; from thence to Syra and Athens, and 
 back to Italy and Austria. But of the routes to and from Palestine we shall 
 speak when we have done with this series of Itineraries. 
 
 EiaHTH ITINEKAEY. 
 
 Combining all that is included in the Seventh, with the addition 
 of the Coast Route by Sidon, Tyre, and Carmel, to JaflFa. 
 
 Forty days are required to do justice to this extended tour, which should 
 commence at Beyrout, and be taken in the following routine to Jaffa, from 
 which point the whole of the Seventh Itinerary may be taken, as given above. 
 
 First Day. — Start with the camp from Beyrout, cross a sandy ^lain and get 
 to the coast as soon as practicable, continuing near to the sea to Sidon. Seven 
 to eight hours will be required for this section. 
 
 Second Day. — Pass the little village, or " city of Sarepta," as described of 
 old, to Tyre, and stop there a night. Six or seven hours in the saddle. 
 
 Third Day. — Descend the Tyrian Ladder to the Valley of the Kishon, halting 
 for a night at Acre. A day's ride of about six hours. 
 
 Fourth Day. — Pursue the course from Acre to the foot of Mount Carmel and 
 encamp there. It will be interesting to visit the monastery, and get the com- 
 manding view which its position affords of the " great sea" and the Carmel 
 range, which are full of interesting Scripture memories. 
 
 Fifth and Sixth Days should suffice for the journey by the coast, past Csesarea, 
 the seat of Roman power and magnificence, and the scene of various events 
 and incidents recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. There is not much left to 
 indicate the magnificence of the Palace that existed there. 
 
 As indicated above, having arrived at Jaffa, the route already described 
 may be taken just as it stands in the Seventh Itinerary, or deviations may be 
 made at discretion. Either way, by Kirjath-Jearim or Bethoron, may be 
 taken to Jerusalem, or it would be practicable to go southward to Philistia, 
 reversing one or other of the Itineraries already given, round by Gaza or Q-ath 
 to Hebron, and thence to Jerusalem. In 40 days this might be accomplished. 
 
 The foregoing eight Itineraries cover the chief districts of interest west of 
 the Jordan and in the Lebanon. We now propose to cross the Jordan, and 
 show a couple of practical routes in the Land of Moab, and one in the 
 Hauran to the east of Damascus. 
 
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 NINTH ITINERAEY. 
 First Tour to Moab. 
 
 Jaffa to Jerusalem, as already described, by carriage or saddle horses in one- 
 day or two ; allowing two days for the journey, we begin on the 
 
 Third Day— And take trip, already described, by Solomon's Pools an4 
 Bethlebem to Mar- Saba. 
 
 Fourth Day. — FromMar-Saba to the Dead Sea 'and the Jordan, encamping on 
 the bank of the river after a journey of about seven hours. 
 
 Fifth Day. — From the Jordan, crossing the river above its outlet into the- 
 Dead Sea, and making the journey of about seven hours to Heshbon. 
 
 Sixth Day. — To Mount Nebo and back, the camp remaining at Heshbon. 
 
 Seventh Day. — From Heshbon to Eabbath Ammon, via Elealeh. Seven hours' 
 journey. 
 
 Eighth and Ninth Days. — From Eabbath Ammon to Jerash (Gerasa) by the- 
 course of the river Jabbok. This journey will require two days of about 
 seven hours each, the camp to be fixed where most convenient for water. 
 
 Tenth Day. — A rather long ride of eight and a half hours from Jerash to Es 
 Salt (or Eamoth GUead). 
 
 Eleventh Day. — Es Salt to Jericho. Nine hours. 
 
 Twelfth Day. — Jericho to Jerusalem by the road already described. Deduct- 
 ing the two days allowed for the journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem, this tour to 
 Moab wUl be accomplished in 10 days of actual travel, taking the circuitous 
 route from Jerusalem to Mar-Saba and the Dead Sea. A longer route is given 
 in the next Itinerary. 
 
 TENTH ITINERARY. 
 
 A More Extended Tour East of the Jordan. 
 
 Taking the course described in the Ninth Itinerary as far as Uabbath 
 Ammon, seven days of travel from Jafla or five days from Jerusalem, from 
 which point we -will take our calculations, and begin on the 
 
 Sixth Day.— From Kabbath Ammon to Es Salt (Ramoth GUead). 
 Seventh Day. — From Es Salt to Jerash. 
 
 Eighth Day. — From Jerash to Wady Zabeis (Jabeth Gilead), via Suf A'Glnn 
 to Helaweh. A journey of seven hours. 
 
 Ninth Day. — From Wady Zabeis to Dm Keis (Gadara), vid Pella. Sevea 
 hours. 
 
 Tenth Day. — From TJm Keis to Bethsaida of the Desert, vid El Husn- 
 (Gamala). Seven hours. 
 
 Eleventh Day. — From Bethsaida of the Desert to Tiberias, md the Jordan, 
 Chorazin, Bethsaida of Galilee, Capernaum, and Plain of Genessaret. Seven 
 and a half hours. 
 
 Twelfth Day. — From Tiberias to Safed, by the Mount of Beatitudes, Beth 
 Arbela, and Wady Hamman (Valley of the Pigeons). Eight hours. 
 
 Thirteenth Day. — From Safed to Mace El Jebel, vid Hazor and Kadesh 
 Naphtali. Seven and a half hours. 
 
 Fourteenth Day.— From Mace El Jebel to Banias (Csesarea Philippi), vid Beth- 
 Behob and Dan. About six hours. 
 
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 From Banias to Damascus, the route has been already described in a journey 
 of two days, halting for a night at Kefr Hawar. Three days more from 
 Damascus to Baalbec, and two days from Baalbeo to Beyrout. A tour of 20 
 ■days of actual travel from Jerusalem, and with necessary stop;pages_ such a 
 tour ought to have 40 days allotted to it, though with hard work it might be 
 got over in 30 days, 
 
 These tours to the east of the Jordan would require the special protection of 
 the local sheikhs, and would involve costs for this protection, varying in 
 amount in proportion to the number of the parties. This would have to be 
 arranged by special contract at the time, as no fixed charges can be satisfactorily 
 arranged. 
 
 ELEVENTH ITINERAET, 
 
 Tour from Damascus to the Hauran. 
 
 Taking Damascus as the starting-point of this extension to the Hauran, we 
 will simply show the number of days required from that city, instead of 
 repeating any of the routes leading to Damascus. 
 
 First Day. — From Damascus to Burak in eight hours' ride via Nejha and the 
 river Awaj. 
 
 Second Day. — From Burak to Dama via el Musweih (Phino), Shaarah, and 
 Senah. Seven and a half hours. 
 
 Third Day. — From Dama to Um es Zeitun via Dier el Dama (ascend Mount 
 Tel Amarah to view the Land of Bashan). Eight hours' ride. 
 
 Fourth Day. — From Um es Zeitun to Thuhba via Bethemyeh (Botanen) and 
 Shukah (Luccea). Seven and a half hours. 
 
 Fifth Day. — From Thuhba to Hebron via Tuliem, Kunawat (Kenath), and 
 Suweidh. Seven hours. 
 
 Sixth Day. — From Hebron to Saleh via El Kufr and Jesneh. Eight hours. 
 
 Seventh Day. — From Saleh to Basrah vid Orman (Philippopolis) and Sulkad 
 (Saleah). Eight hours. 
 
 Eighth Day.— From Basrah to Dera by Ghusam and Adraha. Seven and a 
 half hours. 
 
 Ninth Day. — From Dera to Mujeidel via Meyarib and Edhfa (Edrei). Seven 
 hours. 
 
 Tenth Day. — From Mujeidel to Kesweh via Es Sunamein (Apre) and Dean. 
 Seven hours. 
 
 Eleventh Day. — From Kesweh to Damascus via Ashrafijeh and Es Sabineh. 
 
 Six hours. 
 
 To make this tour a fortnight would have to be added to a Palestine tour 
 which would include Damascus. 
 
 TOTJRS TO PALMYBA 
 
 Can be made from Damascus in twelve days for the double journey, but 
 Palmyra is under the power of rapacious sheikhs, and great care has to be 
 observed in arranging for a tour to that city of grand ruins. See special 
 Itineraries on page 31. 
 
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 TWELFTH ITINERARY. 
 
 Tour to the Great Desert and Palestine. 
 
 "We conclude the series of Itineraries by indicating the general route from 
 Egypt to Sinai, Petra, Mount Hor, and Palestine. 
 
 Forty days are required for the journey from Cairo to Sinai, Petra, and by 
 Mount Hor to Hebron and Jerusalem. One of out parties through the Desert was 
 headed by Dr. Strong, of Drew Seminary, and consisted of ten or eleven ener- 
 getic and enthusiastic explorers. The party had with them a photographer, 
 who took home a fine collection of photographs, which were exhibited in th» 
 Photographic Hall of the Centfennial Exhibition. An extensive map has also 
 been prepared by two gentlemen of the party, and other educational results of 
 their great tours may be anticipated. Without attempting to define the course 
 of these and other travellers for whom we have htiid the honour to arrange, we 
 may say here briefly that we can take engagemeiits and supply all necessary cainp 
 equipments for tours through the Desert ; and ih. every engagement of this kind 
 we wiU. employ none but the most trustworthy dragomans. Who Will do justice tb 
 the travellers as well as to ourselves. A graduated scale of charges according 
 to the number of i)arty is adopted, and we can take engagements for Dfesfert 
 travelling nearly as cheap as for Palestine. But the details and conditions of 
 such tours are best settled by private negotiation, and we are ready to go into 
 them as soon as required. 
 
 MODEL ROUTES AND TIMES FOR 44 DAYS' 
 TOUR IN PALESTINE. 
 
 FiEST Day, Tuesday. — At Jafla. 
 
 Second Day, Wednesday.— Travel to Jerusalem as described on page 27; 
 
 Thtbd Day, Thursday.— The delicate and weary' can enjoy themselves in 
 the Holy City. Those who wish (and can stand the fatigue) can ride down to 
 Hebron, the most ancient city in Palestine, situated in and on both sides of the 
 Valley of Eshcol ; here Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Jkcob are entombed, itf 
 the Cave of Maehpelah. 
 
 FoTJBTH Day, Friday.— The Whole party rejoin for lunch at Bethlehem, 
 and camp at Mar-Saba. 
 
 Fifth Day, Saturday. — Ride on to Jericho. 
 
 Sixth Day, Sunday. — At Jericho. 
 
 Seventh DaYj Monday. — Ride to Jerusalem. 
 
 Eighth Day, Tuesday. ) To be spent in and around the City of thfe 
 
 Ninth Day, Wednesday. [ Great King, having three clear days for 
 
 Tenth Day, Thursday. ) sight-seeing. 
 
 f WElM™DlY%aWav ] ^"^^"^^^ ^ Nablous as described on page 28. 
 
 Thteteenth Day, Sunday.— At Nablous, where the party can walk to' Joseph's 
 Tomb and Jacob's, Well. • m- i. 
 
 Fotjeiebnth Day, Monday.— Make a very -interesting excursion to Tirzah, 
 (Solomon's Song, vi. 4), the Fountain of Faria, the site of Aenon (John iii. 23), 
 and back, by Salim. 
 
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 FrPTE"EMiH Day, Tuesday.— Travel as described on page 28 as far as 
 Endor, and cross tlie plain to the tents, either at the foot or on the top of 
 Mount Tabor, from which there is a splendid view: on the north the Mount 
 of Beatitudes, the head of the Lake of Galilee, and Mount Hermon, east of 
 which are the Hills of . Bashan ; on the east, the Jordan Valley and Mountains 
 of GUead ; on the south, Endor, Nain, Little Hermon, the Mountains of GUboa, 
 the Plains of Esdraelon, and Mountains of Samaria; on the west, Nazareth, 
 Mount Carmel, and the Mediterranean Sea. 'On the top of Mount Tabor are 
 some very fine ruins. 
 
 SrxTEJENiH Day, "Wednesday. — Ride over to Nazareth in two hours ; see 
 all the places of interest, and lunch there ; then follow the route by Cana of 
 Galilee to Lubieh, where the tents will be fixed for the night. 
 
 Seventeenth Dat, Thursday.— Ride down to Sea of Galilee, vid Horn-Hattin ; 
 camp at Capernaum, and remain on and around the Lake until Friday noon. 
 
 EiOHTEEHTH Dat, Friday.— After lunch ascend the Mountains of Naphtali 
 to Safed (" A city set on a hill cannot be hid"' — Matt. v. 14), where the tents 
 are pitched for the night. 
 
 Nineteenth Dat, Saturday. — Have a very interesting ride along over the 
 top of the Mountains to Kedesh Naphtali (Joshua xii. 22, zx. 7) ; take lunch, 
 and have a look over the ruins, which are scattered over a great deal of ground. 
 Afterwards ride over hUl and dale for 2f hours to the tents of Huniu, the 
 traditional site of Beth-Rehob. 
 
 Twentieth Day, Sunday. — At Beth-Rehob (Judges xyiii. 28). 
 
 TwENiY-FntST Day, Monday — Descend the mountain, cross the plain to 
 Dan, and up to Banias for lunch. After limch ride up to the old castle and 
 back again to Banias, where the tents wiU be fixed for the night. 
 
 Twenty-second Day, Tuesday. — Ride round the west side of Hermon to 
 Hasbijah (distance, seven hours) vid Rashiyet-el-Fukhar (place where stone 
 jars are manufactured), and the ruined temple at a village called Hibbariyeh ; 
 then up over a high hill by a steep and rough road, descend through the town 
 to the tents, pitched near the upper source of the Jordan, a mile from the town. 
 
 Twenty-third Day, Wednesday. — Ride through very wild and picturesque 
 valleys to Rasheiya, prettily situated on a spur of Hermon ; distance, about 
 6 J hours from Hasbiyah. 
 
 Twenty- FOTJiiTH Day, Thursday. — The delicate and weary remain in camp 
 and rest, whilst the strong and healthy make a very interesting excursion to 
 the highest peak of Mount Hermon ; it is a very hard climb, and should only 
 be attempted by such as can stand great fatigue. The view from the top is 
 beyond description. The Arabs say that the whole world can be seen from the 
 top of Hermon. The highest jjoint is 10,000 feet above the sea level ; it takes 
 45 hours to ascend from Rasheiya, and 3 hours to return. Murray recommends 
 camping on the top. We most certainly do not, and think any one who attempts to 
 drive loaded mules up Mount Hermon ought to be punished for cruelty to animals. 
 
 TwENTY-ELFTH Day, Friday.— Ride about 6i hours to Khan, Myl-el- 
 Saloan; and camp by the side of the carriage road. On the route visit the ruins 
 of three temples — first, Aiha ; second, Rukhleh, a very fine ruin imprisoned 
 among the mountains ; and the third, Deir-el-Ashayir, by the side of a plain 
 about one hour's distance from the tents. 
 
 Twenty-sixth Day, Saturday.— Ride into Damascus on the carriage road, 
 about four houjs. 
 
 Twenty-seventh Day, Sunday. 1 m i 1. ■ j j ii. 3 
 
 Twenty-eighth Day, Monday. [ To be spent in and around the grand 
 
 Twenty-njjsth Day, 'Tuesday." C °}^ °^^^. 9* I^^ascus, which can be 
 Thietieih Day, Wednesday. J ^°^^ "^^^^ '^'"'^ pleasure. 
 
 Thiety-third Day, Satuidly. 5 described on page 30. 
 
 Thiety-eoxteth Day, Sunday. — To be spent among the ruins of Baaibec. 
 Thiety-eieth Day, Monday. — Cross the plain, pass near a lone column, 
 
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 ■which stands about sixty feet high, oommen.ce the ascent of Mount Lebanon at 
 Deir-el-Ahmar, and in five hours from Baalbec reach the tents pitched at a 
 fountain of very nice water called Ain-Ata. 
 
 Thiett-sixth; Day, Tuesday. — Ascend to the top of Lebanon aad (if not 
 too cold) ride up to its highest point, about 11,000 feet above the sea level, then 
 descend to the Cedars and halt there for lunch, after which, ride for two and 
 a half hours over a very rough and stony country, but wild sconery, to the 
 tents pitched at Hasron, a very prosperous and healthy village surrounded with 
 mulberry-trees which are cultivated for silkworms. 
 
 Thiett- SEVENTH Dat, Wednesday. — Ride along on the west side of Lebanon, 
 six and a half hours to Akurah. The way is rough, but very pleasant. 
 
 THiKTT-EiaHiH Dat, Thursday. — Make an early start in order to visit the Iron 
 Fountain, the great fountain at Afko (source of the river Adonis), near which 
 is a ruined Temple of Venus ; pass the Honey Fountain, cross a stream by a 
 natural stone bridge (well worth a visit), the stream flows from a spring called 
 the Milk Fountain; ride over to a ruin called Kulat-Fukra, descend into a deep 
 valley, cross a rapid stream, and ascend a steep hill to the tents iiitched at 
 a place called Megraah. 
 
 Thiety-ninih Day, Friday. — Visit the renowned caves of Dog river, then 
 ride down to its mouth, where the tents will be pitched for the night. 
 
 Foeiieih: Day, Saturday. — Visit some inscriptions by the side of the 
 old road, and ride into Beyrout in time for lunch, completing the horseback 
 riding. 
 
 FoEiY-riEST AKD FoETY-SECOifB Day, Sunday and Monday. — To be spent 
 at Beyrout. 
 
 FoEiY-iHrED Day, Tuesday. — Ijeave Beyrout for Smyrna. 
 
 TOUR TO THE SEV'EN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 
 
 A Tour to the Seven Churches may be made from Smyrna, which, by the 
 opening of the new route to Constantinople, is now within a week's journey 
 from London. Fares for a Tour of any description, with camping or other 
 accommodation for any number of persons, will be quoted upon application. 
 The places within easy distance of Smyrna are Ephesus, Magnesia, Meandrum, 
 Liodictea, Hierapolis, Tripoli, Philadelphia, Sardis, Pergamus, &c., &o. 
 
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 TOURS TO BAGDAD. 
 
 In lesponse to seyera] inquiries, Thos. Cook & Son have pleatnre in an- 
 nouncing the completion of arrangements which enables them to convey 
 passengers, either travelling independently or in large or tmall' parties, hetween 
 Damascus or Beyrout, Palmyra, and Bagdad. The following is the Itinerary 
 recommended, and rates will be quoted for horses, camels, tents, andt every 
 necessary accommodation in connection with any description of tour to or 
 through Palestine. 
 
 DAMASCUS TO PALMYBA. 
 
 FiKST EoDTE.— Pive days, via Mareau, Said, Niah. Sleep first night at 
 Maslulah. 
 
 Second Day to Deir Atteye, vid Ta.brood and Nebloea. 
 
 Third Day to Curetain, vid Mohean. 
 
 Fourth Day to Burshul, vid Said et Burdy. 
 
 Fifth Day to Palmyra. 
 
 N.B. — This route is the most pleasant, passing by much water, 6 to 7 hours 
 per day. 
 
 Secokd Route. — Four Days, at the rate of 10 to 11 hours per day. 
 First Day to Jerout. 
 Second Day to Curetain. 
 Third Day to Shurla or Shul. 
 ' Fourth Day to Palmyra. 
 
 TOUBS TO BAGDAD. 
 
 The following itinerary, based upon practical experience, will give an 
 idea of the time necessary for a tour to Bagdad. The journey from 
 Beyrout to Damascus may be made in a carriage, and occupies one day, 
 or by camp five days, and visiting Baelbeo en route. Fares will be quoted for 
 any number of persons in connection with any description of tour from and to 
 Europe, and the following will give an idea of the expense from Beyrout: — 
 
 Beyrout to Damatous (five days' camp), Damascus to Bagdad, 
 one person £326 
 
 Beyrout to Damascus (five days' camp), Damascus to Bagdad, 
 two persons 430 
 
 Beyrout to Damascus (five days' camp), Damascus to Bagdad, 
 three persons 537 
 
 These rates aie for a tour terminating at Bagdad, from which point there 
 is regular communication with Bussoreh, Bombay, Aden, &c., and include the 
 expense of the return of the horses, camels, servants, and camp to Palestine. 
 
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 ITIlfERABY FROM DAMASCUS TO BAGDAD. 
 
 First day. — From Damasoug to Khan Baieoh.. 6 hours. 
 
 Second day. — A.tneh. 7 hours. Village. 
 
 Third day. — Karytein. 11 hours. Village. 
 
 Fourth day. — El-Hasr. 7 hours. Desf-rt. No water. 
 
 Fifth day. — Tadmor (Palmyra). 11 hours. Village. 
 
 Sixth day. — Arak. 5i hours. Village. 
 
 Seventh day. — Sokn^. 8i hours. Desert- No water. Village. 
 
 Eighth day. — El-Mehafir. 8 hours. Desert. No water. 
 
 Ninth day. — El-Bir. 9 hours. Desert. Water. 
 
 Tenth day. — Deir-el-Zor. 11 hours. Town. 
 
 Eleventh day. — Maijadine. 8 hours. Village. 
 
 Twelfth day. — Tala and Melheim. Desert. Water. 
 
 Thirteenth day. — Salayeh. 7 hours. £han. 
 
 Fourteenth day. — Aboukmal. 8 hours. Village. 
 
 Fifteenth day. — El-ghaim. 7 hours. Shan. 
 
 Sixteenth day.— El-N'hota. 84 hours. Khan. 
 
 Seventeenth day. — Anah. 7 hours. Town. 
 
 Eighteenth day. — El-Faim^. 9 hours. Desert. 
 
 Nineteenth day. — Hadite. 84 hours. Small village. 
 
 Twentieth day. — Bagdad. 9 hours. Desert. 
 
 Twenty-first day. — Hitt. 8 hours. Village; 
 
 Twenty-second day. — El-N'hota. 7 hours. Khan. 
 
 Twenty-third day. — Rnmady. 5i hours. Village. 
 
 Twenty-fourth day. — ^El Debbene. 5i hours. Desert. 
 
 Twenty- fifth day. — Fdlouja. 4i hours. Village. Euphrates crossed over- 
 
 Twenty-sixth day.— Ain-guerguouf. 7 hours. Desert. 
 
 Twenty-seventh day. — Bagdad. 6 hours. 
 
 No water is to be found between Quarytein and Tadmor, nor between Sokne 
 and El-Bir. Water between Deir-el-Zor and Bagdad is always at hand, as 
 the route is by the side of the river Euphrates as far as Falouja. 
 
 ITINERARY PROM BAGDAD TO BAB-EL-BABTLON- 
 
 EERBELA. 
 
 First day.— Khan Mamoudieh. 5 J hours. Village. 
 
 Second day. — Mahaouil. 9 hours. Khan. 
 
 Third day. — Babel. 2J hours. Ruins. Babylon reached on same day. 
 Ruins. 
 
 Fourth day. — Hillah. 3 hours. Town. 
 
 Fifth day. — Excursion to Birs Nimrod ruins, 3 hours from Hillah, returning 
 on same evening to camp. 
 
 Sixth day. — MehaouU. 4 hours. Khan. 
 
 Seventh day. — ^El-Mseied. 7 hours. Village. 
 
 Eighth day. — Kerbela. Town. 6i hours. 
 
 If, owing to a rise in the river or floods, the Euphrates cannot be crossed 
 at Falouja, it may be crossed by boats at Hitt, and thence Bagdad may be 
 reached through the desert. Same itinerary on the return journey. 
 
 The journey should be made during February, March, April, and May. 
 
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 SI^EGIIvdllEnsr TOTJE. 
 
 OP CHEAPKST EOUTES TO 
 
 JERUSALEM AND BACK, 
 
 SHOWING THE 
 
 DA.I3LY ITi:N^:EEA.IiY. 
 
 1st Day, Thtjksbat or Fbidat.— Leave London for Paris, vid Dieppe or 
 Calais. 
 
 2nd Day, Feibay or Sattjed ay.— Leave Paris for Turin. 
 
 Seb Day, Sunbay.— At Turin. 
 
 4th Day, Mokbat.— Travel from Turin to Genoa, and leave at 9'0 p.m. by 
 Subattino steamer for Alexandria. 
 
 5th Day, Tdesbay. — The steamer calls at Leghorn. 
 
 7th Day, Thttrsbay.— The steamer calls at Naples. 
 
 8th Day, Feibay. — The steamer calls at Messina and Catania. 
 
 12th Day, Ttjesbay. — Arrive at Alexandria. All passengers with Cook's 
 Tickets taken ashore and through the Custom House by the Agent and boatnien 
 of Thos. Cook: & Sow, who can be recognised by their scarlet jackets. 
 
 13th Day.— May be spent at Alexandria. 
 
 14th Day, Thtjesbay. — Leave Alexandria by Khedivie steamer for JafFa. 
 
 15iH Day, Feibay. — Arrive at Jaffa. The day may be spent in visiting the 
 house of Simon the Tanner, Miss Arnott's Schools, and other places. Every 
 alternate week the steamer arrives on the Monday. 
 
 16th Day, Sattjebay. — Proceed by carriages or horses to Jerusalem. 
 Carriages go through to Jerusalem in one day, returning in time for the boat 
 from Jaffa on Thursday following or Thursday week. 
 
 21sT Day, Thtjesbay. — Leave Jaffa by Khedivie steamer for Porj; Said and 
 Alexandria. 
 
 22NB Day, Feibay. — Call at Port Said, affording an opportunity for those 
 who wish to visit Ismailia and Cairo. 
 
 23bb or 30th Day, Sattjebay. — Arrive at Alexandria and leave by 
 Eubattino steamer for Naples and Genoa. 
 
 27th or 34th Day, Webnesbay,— Call at Catania and Messina. 
 
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 28th or 35th Day, Thfesdat. — Call at Naples. 
 
 30th or 37th Day, Fkidat. — Arrive at Genoa. 
 
 31st or 38th Day, Satttebay. — Proceed to Turin. The journey to Paris 
 and London may be completed -within two months from the date of departure. 
 
 EXTENDED TOURS IN" PALESTINE. 
 
 Thos. Cook & Son are prepared to arrange for extended tours in Palestine, 
 either for single travellers or for large or small parties, and invite inquiry, 
 which should be made by letter addressed to their Chief Office, Ludgate Circus, 
 London. 
 
 OTHER ARRANGEMENTS FOR PALESTINE AND THE 
 NILE FOR INDEPENDENT PASSENGERS OR PERSON- 
 ALLY CONDUCTED PARTIES 
 
 Are given in this pamphlet, embracing tours to Palestine by numerous new 
 arrangements, and extended to the Sinaitie Desert, Petra, the Land of Moab, 
 the Hauian, Palmyra, the Lebanon, &c. 
 
 SUPPLEMENTAL NILE TOURS. 
 
 In connection with Tours to Palestine, trips may be made to the First 
 Cataract on payment of the ordinary fares charged for those trips from Cairo. 
 
 See Special Programme for the Nile, with Maps and Plans of New Steamers. 
 Price 6d. 
 
COOK'S TICKETS TO JERUSALEM AND BACK. 
 
 Boute 1. — London, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles ; Messageries steamer to Alex- 
 andria and Jaffa ; riding horse or seat in a carriage to Jerusalem and back ; 
 returning bame way to London. Tickets good for two mouths. 
 
 Via Pieppe, First Class .. *4a 10 O i Via Calais, First Class .. £44 10 
 „ „ Second Class £31 5 I „ „ Second Class £33 O 
 
 Boute 2. — London, Paris, Turin, Genoa ; Rubattino steamer to Alexandria, 
 Egyptian steamer to J aflfa ; riding horse or seat in a carriage to Jerusalem 
 and back ; returning same way to London. Tickets good for two months. 
 Via Dieppe, First Class .. £44 i Via Calais, First Class .. £50 O O 
 „ ,; Second Class £34 O 1 „ „ Second Class £35 15 O 
 
 Boute 3. — London, Paris, Turin, Genoa; steamer of the Eubattino Line to 
 Alexandria, Egyptian steamer to Jaffa ; riding horse or seat in a carriage to 
 Jerusalem and back ; returning same way to Jaffa and Alexandria ; 
 Rubattino steamer to Naples; railway to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Venice, 
 Verona, MUan, Turin, Paris, London. Tickets good for two months. 
 
 Via Dieppe, First Class.. £49 5 O i Via Calais, First Class .. £51 5 O 
 „ „ Second Class £37 5 I „ „ Second Class £39 O 
 
 Boute 4, — London, Paris, Turin, Genoa, Spezia, Pisa, Leghorn, Rome, 
 Naples ; steamer of the Rubattino Line to Alexandria ; Egyptian steamer to 
 Jafla ; riding horse or seat in a carriage to Jerusalem and back ; returning 
 same way to Jaffa and back to London, as per the itinerary of Route 3. 
 Tickets good for two months. 
 
 Via Dieppe, First Class .. £46 O i Via Calais, First Class .. £48 
 „ „ Second Class £34 10 | „ „ Second Class £36 5 O 
 
 Boute 5. ^Steamer from Liverpool to Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria 
 (Moss or Papayanni Line) ; Egyptian steamer to Jaffa ; riding horse or seat in 
 a carriage to Jerusalem and back to Jaffa ; Egyptian steamer to Alexandria, 
 and Moss Line steamer to Liverpool. 
 
 First Class £33 15 0. 
 
 The following Supplemental Tickets may be added to any of 
 the above Tours :— 
 
 1.— Alexandria to Cairo and back : first class, £2 9s. ; second class, £1 13s. 
 
 2.— Alexandria to Cairo, Ismailia, Suez Canal, Port Said : first class £2 19s. ; 
 second class, £2 Ss. 
 
 3.— Tour from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, Solomon's Pool, Mar-Saba, Dead Sea, 
 Jordan, Jericho, Jerusalem. Three days' Tour : for one person, £4 10s. ; for 
 two or more persons fares will .be given on application. 
 
 Cook's Hotel Cootons : for the Continent of Europe, 8s., 8s. 9d. and 10a. per day, 
 ,, ,1 ,1 for Alexandria, Cairo, or Port Said, 13s. per day. 
 
 ,, ,, ,, for Shepheard's or New Hotel, Cairo, in January, 
 
 February, and March, 15s. per day. 
 ,, ,, ,, for Jerusalem, Jaffa, or Beyrout, 10s. per day. 
 
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 TO 
 
 JERUSALEM, JERICHO, THE JORDAN, &c. 
 
 The following is submitted as an agreeable short tour in the Holy 
 Land, and Thos. Cook & Son will quote fares in connection with any 
 description of tour to and f-rom Jaffa. 
 
 PjBST Day.— Expect to land at Jaffa, the ancient Joppa, picturesquely 
 situated on rising ground, overlooking tlie sea. Joppa is the place to 
 which Hiram, King of Tyre, undertook to send to Solomon wood from 
 Lebanon for building the Temple. It is the traditional site of the house of 
 ■Tabitha and of the house of Simon the tanner. (Acts ix. 43.) Proceed at once 
 by carriage or by horse, accompanied by a dragoman, to Jerusalem or to 
 Eamleh or Bab el "Wad. (If the steamer arrives at Jaffa early in the morning, 
 the journey to Jerusalem, by carriage, may easily be made in the day.) 
 
 Second Day. — Continue the journey to Jerusalem and visit the Church 
 of the Holy Sepulchre, containing -within its walls the traditional site 
 of the Sepulchre of Christ, also the tomb of Joseph of Arimathiea, the site of 
 Calvary, &c., also visit the celebrated Mosque of Omar on the supposed site of 
 Solomon's Temple, and other places of interest. 
 
 Thibd Day. — Leave Jerusalem by horse for Jericho, passing round the 
 city and obtain a good view of tlie city walls, the Damascus Gate, the 
 Grotto of Jeremiah (underneath the hill supposed by General Gordon and other 
 authorities to be the true site of Calvary), St. Stephen's Gate and the spot 
 where the martyr was stoned, the Valley of Jehoshaphat, between the Mount 
 -of Olives and the Mosque of Omar, in the outer wall of which is the waUed-up 
 Golden Gate, through which a Mahommedan tradition states a Christian 
 conqueror shall some day enter. The route makes the circuit of the city, and 
 passing the Garden of Gethsemane, turns off near the Tomb of Absalom across 
 the ."ilope of the Mount of Olives to Bethany, and then across the Wildomess 
 of Judea (stopping for a short rest at the Apostles' Spring), to the gorge of the 
 Cherith and thence to Jericho, situated on the Plain of the Jordan, in view of 
 "the Dead Sea, the Mountains of Moab, the course of the Jordan, the Mountain 
 of Temptation (Matthew iv. 1-11), and the Valley of the Jordan as far as the 
 snowy Peak of Hermon. Sleep at Jericho. 
 
 FouETH Day.— Excursion on horseback across the Plain of the Jordan to 
 the Dead Sea, thence to the Ford of the Jordan, returning to Jericho in time to 
 visit Ain es Sultan or Elisha's Spring (2 Kings ii. 19-22) and the supposed 
 site of ancient Jericho. 
 
 PirTH Day. — Eetum to Jerusalem, enjoying a magnificent view of the city 
 from the base of the Mount of Olives. Those who wish can visit Bethlehem 
 and the Church of the Nativity (an hour and a quarter's journey from 
 Jerusalem) in the evening, weather permitting. 
 
 Sixth Day. — Eeturn by carriage or horse to Jaffa in time to embark. 
 
 Thos. Cook & Son engage for a fixed siua to arrange for any number of 
 passengers to make the above interesting tour by any route from and to 
 England, and to provide carriages or riding horses, hotel accommodation, good 
 dragomans, and pay all fees and backsheesh. 
 
 Passengers requiring private landaus or separate dragomans can be pro- 
 vided at a small additional cost, but early notice must be given. 
 
 Arrangements can also be made for passengers visiting Damascus or Baalbeo 
 from Beyrout, or for making excursions in and around Athens or Constantinople, 
 also for visiting Cairo and the Pyramids from Alexandria. 
 
PEOPOSED DAILY ITINERARY for a FORTNIGHT'S TOUR. 
 
 First Day, Wednesday; — Expect to land at Lamaca in the morning. The 
 starting takes place soon after landing, say I'O p.m. Arrive at St. Barhara's 
 Convent. Stop here for the night. 
 
 Second Day, Thursday — Departure at' 6'0 a.m. for the ascent of the 
 Stavrovuni mountain. Return back in time for lunch at lO'O a.m., and at 11"30 
 proceed to Calavasso, arriving there the same evening. 
 
 Third Day, Friday.— Leave Calavasso at 6"0 a.m., arriving at Mbni 9'30 
 a.m. Soon after lunch, about lO'SO, leave for Amatheus, arriving at 3'0 p.m. 
 Proceed at 4*0 p.m. for Limasol, arriving 6'0 p.m. 
 
 PoTTRTH Day, Saturday. — Leave Limasol at 8'0 a.m. for Colossi, arriving lO'O 
 a.m. Visit the Tower. After lunch proceed for Episoopi (Curium), AppoUona, 
 and Tpodrom ruins. Proceed the same day to Alestora;, and stop for the night. 
 
 Fifth Day', Sunday. — Leave Alestora at 7'0 p.m. for Kuklia, arrivinsr 
 tO'O a.m. After a short visit to that town, proceed to Jeroskipos, arriving at 
 2'0 p.m., and continue the journey at 3'0 p.m., stopping for the night at Papho. 
 
 Sixth Day, Monday. — Lea re Papho at 12 "0 noon, visiting on the way the 
 Convent of Neophito Stromhe Guilio, arriving in the afternoon at Anarghiri. 
 
 Seventh Day, Tuesday.— Leave Anarghiri at 6-30 a.m. for Chrysoko, arriving 
 2*0 p.m., passing through Zii Lissa and Gimusa. Leave Chrysoko at 3-0 p.m. 
 for Simbouli, arriving at 6 "30 p.m. 
 
 Eighth Day, Wednesday. — Departure at 6'30 a.m., arriving at Pyrgos 9'30 a.m. 
 At ll'O leave for Cirro (convent) and stop there over-night. 
 
 Ninth Day, Thursday. — Leave Cirro at 12"0 noon, arriving about 4"0 p.m. 
 at Olympus, and after travelling half an hoar the Convent of Prodremos is 
 reached. Stay there for the night. 
 
 Tenth Day, Friday. — Departure at 6'0 a.m., arriving at Lefka at ll'O a.m. 
 Proceed at 1"0 p.m. for the Convent of St. Pantekimone, arriving there in the 
 evening, passing Morphou. 
 
 Eleventh Day, Saturday. — Leave the convent at 6'0 a.m., arriving at about 
 12"0 noon at the Convent of Aoheropiti, visiting the source of Lapitho, and 
 proceed to Belle Paese, touching Cerinea. 
 
 Twelfth Day, Sunday. — Leave Belle Paese at 9'0 a.m., visiting on road 
 the ruins of Buffavento Castle and the Convent of Hirsostoni, arriving in the 
 afternoon at Lefkosia or Nicosia. 
 
 Thirteenth Day, Monday. — Leave Nicosia at 9"0 a.m. for Famagousta, 
 arriving in the evening. 
 
 FoTjRiEEHTH Day, Tuesday. — Leave in the morning early for an excursion to 
 Salamis, visiting the Convents of St. Barnabas and St. Katharine, proceeding 
 in the afternoon to Larnaca. 
 
 Fifteenth Day, Wednesday. — To be spent in Larnaca until the departure of 
 the steamer in the afternoon. 
 
 TOUR OF A WEEK IN CYPRUS. 
 
 First Day, Wednesday.— Expect to land at Larnaca in the morning ; soon after 
 I'O p.m. leave for Zii, arriving the same evening. Stay over-night. 
 
 Second Day, Thursday. — Leave Zii 6'0 a.m., arriving at Limasol ll'O a.m. 
 Leave after luncheon, about I'O p.m., for Laeo, arriving in the evening. 
 
 Third Day, Friday.— Departure at 6'0 a.m^^ arriving at Papho about lO'O 
 a.m. Proceed at 4'30 p.m. for the Convent of Heophat, arriving 6'0 p.m. 
 
 FoiTRTH Day, Saturday.— Departure at 60 a.m. for Cirro, visiting on road the 
 Convent of Chrysoroghiatisa. 
 
 Fifth Day, Sunday.— Departure at 6'0 a.m. for Olympus; proceed the 
 same day to Lefka. 
 
 Sixth Day, Monday. — Leave Leflia 6'0 a.m., arriving in evening at Nicosia.. 
 
 Seventh Day, Tuesday. — Leave Nicosia at 2"0 p.m. for Larnaca, arriving in 
 the evening. 
 
 Eighth Day, Wednesday. — Spend at Larnaca. Leave in the afternoon. 
 
Jrrangmtnts for i^t %xk 
 
 Although this pamphlet is specially designed to explain our an'ange- 
 ments for either independent or Personally Conducted Tours in Egypt 
 and Palestine, it is deemed advisable to give the Nile Itinerary. We 
 have already shown the mode of spending the four days allotted to 
 Lower Egypt, from the time of arrival at Alexandria to the time of 
 departure for Port Said ; but this arrangement does not apply to those 
 who combine a trip up the Nile with a tour of Palestine, as they require 
 an additional three or four weeks for the Nile Tour before leaving 
 Cairo for Palestine. 
 
 ITINERARY OF THE NILE STEAMERS. 
 The following are the appointments for Sailing of the new First Class 
 Tourist Steamers of Thos. Cook & Son. The Itinerary has been 
 revised to accord with the speed of the new Steamers, which enables us 
 to allow extra time at Luxor, also for visits to various places of interest 
 not provided for in Itineraries previously published. 
 
 Departuees from Cairo for the First Cataract. — ^November 
 20th, December 4th and 1 8th, 1888; January 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd 
 and 29th ; February 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th ; and March 5th and 
 12th, 1889. 
 
 Departures from Cairo for the First Cataract, allowikg 
 Four Weeks. — January 9th and February 13th, 1889. 
 
 It must, howeyer, be borne in mind that an j delay or faster sailing will necessarily 
 change the time of arrival at the different stations all through, and it is only possible 
 to give an approximate time-table, which will be adhered to as closely as possible. 
 
 CAIRO TO THE FIRST CATARACT AND BACK. 
 
 FrEST Dat (TTTBSf ay). — The steamer starts punctually at 10"0 a.m. from above 
 the new iron bridge Kasr-el-Nil, leading to the Pyramids of Q-hizeh, and at noon 
 arrires at Bedrachin, where donteys will be waiting for the passengers. The- 
 site of ancient Memphis is reached after half-an-hour's ride, then, according to the 
 state of the land, the summer or winter road will be taken to the step pyramid of 
 Sakkarah, Marriette's House, &c. About two hours will be spent visiting the 
 Serapeum, Mustaba of Ti, and the Pyramid of Oonus (this pyramid having been 
 opened and cleared at the expense of Thos. Cook & Son), and then returning to 
 the steamer which leaves as soon as all are on board, anchoring for the night 
 probably at Ayat. (36 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 Sbcokd Day (Wednesday). — During the day the following places of interest 
 will be passed : — ^The dwarf Pyramid of Maydoom, called " El Kedab," or " the 
 false pyramid " ; "Wasta, a village of some importance, and the Eailway Junction 
 for the Fayoum ; Benisooef, the chief town of the province, and Maghaga, where 
 the steamer usually stops for the night. At Maghaga there is one of the largest 
 sugar manufactories in Dpper Egypt j it is lighted by gas, and presents a very 
 strange and interesting scene. The sugar manufacturing commences about the 
 beginning of January. When the sugar manufactory is not at work the steamer 
 may proceed further the same evening. (106 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 Thibd Day (Thuesday). — Leave early in the morning, and before noon pass 
 " G-ebel-el-Tayr," on the top of which stands a Coptic Convent, the inmates of 
 which at one time used to plunge into the river whenever a boat came in sight, 
 and, swimming towards it, would dextfrously catch hold of the small boat in tow, 
 and climb on deck to ask for backsheesh. This practice, however, was put a stop 
 to a few years ago by order of the Coptic Patriarch. 
 
76 THE NILE. 
 
 Minieh will, be passed in the afternoon, where there is another arge sugar 
 manufactory employing about 2,000 people. There is also a large palace here 
 belonging to the Viceroy. Shortly after Bern-Hassan is reached, and passengers 
 land to Tiait the tombs, where one sees the first example of the Doric and lotus 
 column. The first to be visited is that of Speos Artemedos, and then two of the 
 most interesting of the rock tombs, called Ameni Amenamah and Kuum Hotep. 
 Although there are fifteen tombs altogether of generals and officers, these two are 
 the only ones of any interest. On the way to the tombs the ruins of Beni-Hassan 
 are passed, the villages having been destroyed by order of Mehemet Ali, owing to 
 the incorrigible rascality and thieving propensities of the inhabitants, who are not 
 much better at the present day. (170 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 FouETH Day (Feibat). — I;e»^e early in the morning. In u, few hours the 
 mountain " ftebel-aboo-iaydah" ,ia sighted, and Manfaloot, a town of some 
 importance, is passed, and a little later the steamer reaches Assiout. (250 miles 
 from Cairo.) 
 
 FiiTH Day (Satttbday). — The morning is spent at Siout, or Assiout, the capital 
 of Upper Egypt, where the Inspector-Q-eneral of Upper Egypt resides. Donkeys 
 are taken to the hills behind the town, where a splendid view of the Nile Valley is 
 .obtained — the tombs of the sacred wolf and Meri-ka-ra will be visited — passing 
 through the market and bazaars on the way back to the steamer. A very im- 
 portant market is held at Assiout, and before the abolition of slavery it was the 
 principal slave-market; but although this traffic no longer exists, it still offers 
 much that is of interest to the traveller. 
 
 The steamer will leave at noon and stay for the night at Maragha. (294 miles 
 from Cairo.) 
 
 Sixth Day (Sunday). — The steamer leaves early. Sohag and Grirgheh are 
 generally passed before noon, and shortly after Bellianah, which is the starting- 
 point for visiting Abjdus j but the visit to this beautiful temple is better postponed 
 untQ the return journey, as the ruins are so grand and magnificent" that they lose 
 none of their charm and novelty even after Xarnak has been seen. Therefore the 
 steamer will proceed through the passes of Aboo Shoosheh, stopping tor the night 
 at Diabneh. (388 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 Setebth Day (Monday). — Arrive at Keneh eoou after breakfast. Donkeys will 
 be in readiness on the left bank of the river opposite the town to take the passengers 
 to the Temple of Denderah, about half an hour's ride. This being the first 
 monument of the kind met with, the impression it produces is never to be forgotten. 
 After staying here for a couple of hours passengers will return to the steamer, 
 which will leave about 12 o'clock, arriving at Luxor about five o'clock. (450 miles 
 from Cairo.) 
 
 Eighth Day (Tuesday). — This day will be devoted to the western suburb of Thebes 
 and the tombs of the Sings. Leave the steamer at 8"0 a.m. and cross the river in 
 boats. On the other side donkeys will be found waiting, and after haJf-au-hour's 
 ride the Temple of Koorneh is reached — then another ride of forty minutes through 
 the valley Bab-el-Molook to the tombs of the Kings, which are visited in the 
 following order: — INo. 2, tomb of Barneses IV.; No. 6, Barneses IX.; No. 9, 
 Bameaes VI. ; No. 11, Barneses III. ; No. 17, Sethi I., opened by Belzoni in 1816. 
 Lunch will be served in tomb No. 18, and afterwards those who wish can go over 
 the Libyan chain, commanding a glorious view of the Nile valley, &c., and descend 
 near the Temple of Hatasoo, called by the Arabs Dayr-el-Bahree, which will be 
 visited, passing on the way back to the river the Batneseum and Colossi. 
 
 Those who do not ascend the mountain return through the valley, visiting on the 
 way to the steamer the Bameseum, &o. ; crossing the river again, the steamer is 
 reached about 4'30 p.m. 
 
 Ninth Day (Wednesday). — Leave the steamer at 9"0 a.m., and after half-au- 
 hour's ride reach Karnak, where three hours will be devoted to this most important 
 of Egyptian monuments, returning to the vessel for lunch at I'Op.m. j and at 
 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Temple of Luxor will be visited. 
 
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 Tehth Day (Thtjesdat).— Leaye the eteamer at 8"30 a.m., cross the river again 
 and visit the KameBeum, Tomb No. 35, or tomb of Eekhmaea, being one of the 
 private tombs of Shajk Abd-el-Kooneh, thence to the little temple of Dayr-el- 
 Medeeneh (the judgment hall of Osiris), and the Temple of Medinet-Haboo, which 
 ■was the palace and great temple ot Barneses III., containing also a small temple of 
 Thotmes III. Lunch will be taken at 12"0 in the second hall of the great temple. 
 On the way back to the steamer, which is reached about 3'0 p.m., the silting 
 Colossi are passed. 
 
 EiBTENTH Dat (Fbiday). — Leave Luxor early in the morning, arriving at Esneh 
 in about four and a half hours. The Temple of Esneh, which is distant only a few 
 minutes from the river, is visited, then the steamer proceeds for about four hours 
 as far as Edfou, and stays there for the night. The passengers will land and make 
 an excursion to the Temple, which is one of the most complete and best preserved 
 monuments in Egypt, giving the best idea of the early Egyptian architecture. It 
 is in the custody of a Government officer, and beggars are not allowed to pester 
 visitors for backsheesh ; but they are the more ravenous when one emerges again 
 from the stronghold. (515 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 Twelfth Dat (Satttbdax). — ^Leave early in the morning, passing Q-ebel-el- 
 Silsileh about 90 a.m., then Komombo, where half an hour w3l be spent. Assouan, 
 the present limit of Tipper Egypt, and one of the most important towns on the 
 Nile, wiU be reached about 4*0 p.m., and the Island of Elephantine will be visited 
 before dinner, taking small boats to cross the river. (585 miles from Cairo.) 
 
 Thieteenth Dat (Stuiday). — To be spent at Assouan. Passengers visiting the 
 town, bazaars, &o., as they please. 
 
 FoTJBTBEHTH Day (Mobday). — After an early breakfast donkeys and camels will 
 be waiting to convey the passengers to the granite quarries, Fhilse, &c. About 
 twenty minutes' ride from the town on the hills to the left are some of the celebrated 
 granite quarries where the obelisks, &o., were procured, and where one may be 
 seen partly quarried ; about an hour's ride across the desert brings one to the river, 
 where a native boat is taken across to the Island of Philse. After exploring this 
 enchanting island in every part and lunching amid the pillars overlooking the 
 Nile, passengers re-embark at one o'clock, floating down the river for about half 
 an hour, and stop a little above the Cataract. Landing here they reach in a few 
 minutes an eminence, whence the finest view of the rapid is obtained, and the 
 Nubian men and boys are seen dexterously shooting the Cataract on logs of wood. 
 They embark again and the boat proceeds across the river through small rapids to 
 the Nubian village of Mahatta, where the donkeys will be waiting, and the return" 
 journey will be made by another road, striking to the left of the village, andriding 
 by the side of the Nile all the way down, enjoying the most magnificent and varied 
 views of the wild scenery. As a rule, guides and donkey boys do not like to take 
 this way back, but the interest it offers is so great that on no account ought it tO' 
 be abandoned, 
 
 [Passengers wishing to shoot the Cataract can do so — at their own expense ani 
 risk — by making arrangements the day before. The charge for a dahabeah for a 
 party to shoot the Cataract is from £8 to £12 sterling.] 
 
 FiPTBBHTH Day (Titesiiay). — All passengers who take any interest in the 
 Egyptian antiquities should not fail to visit the tombs of Meohu, Ben, and Se- 
 Eenpu, opened out by and at the expense of General Sir Francis Grenfell, situated 
 on the western side of Assouan. They could be visited in the evening, but we 
 strongly advise that they should be seen before breakfast in the morning, when 
 the sun is shining straight into the tombs, and shows out most distinctly the 
 colouring, hieroglyphs, &c. Those who feel so disposed, therefore, should visit 
 them on the Sunday morning before breakfast, as there is not time to allow of 
 them being visited on the Monday morning before starting for Philte, or on the 
 Tuesday morning before the departure of the steamer from Assouan. The steamer 
 will leave Assouan at daylight, so as to ensure arriving at Luxor by daylight the 
 same evening. 
 
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 Sixteenth Day (Webmbsdax).- — The moriiing T\iU be epeot at Luxor, givitig 
 those who wish an opportunity of revisiting Karnak, &e. The steamer leaving at 
 mid-day will arrive at £eneh in from three to four hours. The best porous jugs 
 and gargoulets for filtering the Nile water are made here. Keneh is also celebrated 
 for its dates, and was once noted for its dancing-girls ; the latter, however, have now 
 removed to Luxor. 
 
 Sbtbntbbbth Day (Thijesday). — Leave Keneh early in the morning, and in a few 
 hours arrive at Bellianah, where donkeys will be waiting to take the passengers to 
 Abydus. The ride, which is through rich cultivated land, occupies about two 
 hours. Luncheon will be taken in the Temple of Sethi, after which a visit will be 
 paid to the Temple of Eameses II., Kom-es-Sultan, and the Coptic Monastery. 
 
 EiaETEEKTH DAY (Feiday). — ^Leave Bellianah early and arrive at Assiout in the 
 afternoon, where the rest of the day can be spent revisiting the bazaars, town, <feo. 
 
 NiKBTEEKTH DAY (Satuebay). — Leave AsEiout in the morning, and after lunch 
 reach Khoda, where there is a large sugar manufactory, which, if at work, will be 
 visited. The steamer will then anchor for the night at Q-ebel-el-Dayr. 
 
 Twentieth Day (Stinday). — Arrive at Cairo in the course of the evening, or 
 early on Monday morning. If the steamer arrives at Cairo on the Sunday evening 
 passengers need not leave the steamer until after breakfast on Monday, unless they 
 wish to do so. 
 
 CONDITIONS OF EETUKH" VOYAGE PBOM ASSOUAN. 
 
 On the downward voyage the steamers stop for sight-seeing only at Luxor, 
 Keneh, Bellianah (for Abydus), and Assiout, at which places donkeys will be pro- 
 vided by the dragomons for sight-seeing as on the upward voyage, but as the half- 
 day stoppage at Luxor is simply to enable those who wish to see a second time any 
 particular object they are interested in, no fixed programme will be announced by 
 the dragoman, but passengers are requested to inform the dragoman or the 
 manager the night before what they specially wish to see, so that the necessary 
 arrangements may be made for donkeys and guides. 
 
 Any passengers wishing to visit the western suburb of Thebes on the downward 
 voyage must leave the steamer early in the morning to ensure being back in 
 time for the steamer to leave at noon. 
 
 If the sugar factory at Bhoda is in full operation, and a sugar factory has not 
 been visited on the upward voyage, the steamer will stop at Rhoda, allowing 
 passengers sufficient time to visit the factory. 
 
 With these exceptions steamers on the downward voyage will simply stop where 
 necessary for the night, and the voyage is worked so as to ensure those who wish 
 landing at Assiout in time to take trains to Cairo or Alexandria to connect with 
 the departure of the European steamers, although as a rule passengers can rely 
 upon catching the steamers from Alexaudr ia by continuing with the Nile steamer 
 to Cairo, but, of course, this is not guaranteed by Thos. Cook & Son. 
 
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 DAILY ITINERABT OP THE SPECIAL FIRST-CLASS 
 TOURIST STEAMER BETWEEN CAIRO & ASSOUAW, 
 ALLOWING MORE TIME THAN THE REGULAR 
 STEAMERS 
 
 The steamer "SetU" ■will leave Cairo on Wednesdays, January 9tli and 
 February ISth, with a select number of Passengers, as per following itinerary ;— 
 
 "Wednesdays, Januaet 9th and Febetjaey 13th, 1889. — The steamer wiU leave 
 Kasr-el-Nil Bridge punctually at 100 a.m., reaching Bedrachiu about noon, and 
 after lunch the passengers will start on donkeys for the site of ancient Memphis, 
 where is now to be seen the large statue of Eameses the Grreat, which has been 
 removed from the ground — in which it had been embedded for centuries — by the 
 English Royal Engineers, and is one of the finest and most interesting statues yet 
 discovered ; from Memphis the passengers will proceed to visit the step Pyramid 
 of Sakkara, Mariette's house, the Serapeum, Mastaba of Ti and the Pyramid of 
 Oonus, returning to the steamer in the evening. 
 
 Thuesdatb, Jaktiaey 10th and Febeuaet 14th. — ^The steamer will start from 
 Bedrachin about 6-0 a.m. and will go as f ar as Benisooef or Fashen, where she stops 
 for the night. 
 
 Feidays, Jahuaey 11th add Feeeuaey 15th. — Leave early in the morning, 
 passing Minieh and arriving at Beni-Hassan in the evening. 
 
 Satuedays, Jantjaey 12th and Febettaey 16th. — ^After breakfast the travellers 
 will leave the vessel to visit the tombs in the neighbourhood — Specs Artemedos, 
 Ameni Amenamab, Knum-Hotep, &c., returning to the steamer so as to leave 
 about 2*0 p.m., arriving the same evening at Gebel-aboo-faydah. 
 
 StruDAYS, Jantjaey 13th and Feeeuaey 17th. — Steamer leaves early so as to 
 arrive at Assiout before noon. 
 
 Mondays, Jantjaey 14th and Febettaey 18ih, — Leave Assiout about lO'O a.m. 
 and proceed as far as Sohag, which is reached in the evening. 
 
 Ttjesdays, Jantjaey 15th and Febetjaey 19th. — Passengers will leave the steamer 
 early to visit the Coptic convents, Dayr-el-Abiad and Dayr-el-Ahmar, returning 
 in time to leave at 10 p.m. for Aohmim, remaining there a short time and then 
 proceeding as far as Girgeh, where the steamer will stay for the night. 
 
 Wednesdays, Jantjaey 16th and Febetjaey 20th. — Leave Girgeh and arrive at 
 Keneh early in the evening, giving time to visit the town the same night. 
 
 Thtjesdays, Jantjaey 17th and Febeuaet 21bt. — Cross the river early in the 
 morning by ferry boat, in order to visit the Temple of Denderah. Lunch is taken 
 in the Temple, and return to the steamer in this evening. 
 
 Feidays, Jantjaey 18th and Febetjaey 22nd. — Leave Keneh early, so as to 
 arrive at Luxor before noon, the afternoon being devoted to the Temple of 
 Luxor, &c. 
 
 Pattjedays, Jantjaey 19th and Febetjaey 23ed. — Leave the steamer at 8 a.m. 
 Cross the river, and visit the Temple of Koomeh, Eameseum, Dayr-el-Bahree, 
 and the Tombs of the Kings, as shown on the eighth day of the Itinerary for 
 the three weeks' voyage. 
 
 Sundays, Jantjaey 20th and Febbuaey 24th. — No excursions are arranged for 
 this day ; but if any of the passengers wish to make them the dragoman will 
 make the necessary arrangements for them. 
 
 Mondays, Jantjaby 2lBt and Febeuaky 25th.— To be devoted to the Temples, 
 &c., in the Theban Valley— Tomb of Eekmara, Temples of Dayr-el-Medeeneh 
 and Medinet Haboo, the Colossi, &c., as shown on the tenth day in the itinerary 
 for the three weeks' voyage. 
 
 Ttjesdays, Januaey 22nd and Febetjaey 20th. — Spend the day in visiting 
 Temple of Kamak and neighbourhood. Luncheon is taken in the Temple. 
 
 Wednesdays, January 23ed and Feeeuaey 27th. — The steamer leaves Luxor 
 at noon, reaching Eoneh in time to visit the Temple the same evening. 
 
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 Thtjbsdays, Jahttaet 24th akd Febettabt 28th. — Leave Eeneh early, and siriTe 
 at "El.Kab" about 9 a.m., -where the grottoes will be visited, leaving again at 
 2 p.m., and stopping for the night at Edfou. 
 
 Feidats, Jantjaey 25th and Maeoh Ist. — The mornins: to be spent in the 
 Temple of Edfou. Steamer leaves at 2 p.m., arriving at G-ebel-el-Silsileh in the 
 evening. 
 
 Satuedats, Jautjaey 26th and Maeoh 2nd. — An early visit to be made to the 
 quarries of Gebel-el-Sileileh. The steamer then proceeds as far as Komombo, 
 stops about an hour there, and reaches Assouan the same evening. 
 
 Sttneays, Jantjaet 27th and Maeoh 3ed. — At Assouan. 
 
 Mondays, Janttaey 28th and Maeoh 4th. — ^Excursion to Philse and the Cataract, 
 visiting on the way the Obelisk in the granite quarries. Lunch is taken in the 
 Temple at Philse. 
 
 Tuesdays, jANtJAEY 29th and Maech 5th. — At Assouan. Second Excursion to 
 Philse, or visit to the Island of Elephantine, and the tombs of Mechu, Ben, and 
 Se-Eenpu, opened out by General Sir E. Grenfell. Those intending to make the 
 Second Excursion to Philse are requested to give notice to the manager the previous 
 day, so that the donkeys, &o., may be provided. Return to the steamer by 3 p.m., 
 which leaves at once, and proceeds as far as Komombo the same evening. 
 
 Wednesdays, Jantjaey 30th and Maeoh 6th. — Leave early in the morning 
 again so as to reach Luxor about 4 p.m. 
 
 Thubsdays, Januaey 31st and Maech 7th. — At Luxor. The dragoman will 
 arrange any excursions the travellers may wish to take. 
 
 Feidays, Eebetjaey 1st and Maeoh 8th. — Leave Luxor ea:rly, and steam as far 
 as Bellianah. 
 
 Satuedays, Eebeuaey 2nd and Maeoh 9th. — Leave the steamer at 8 a.m. for the 
 Temple of Abydus, where the day will be spent and. luncheon taken in the Temple. 
 
 Sundays, Eebeuaey 3ed and Maech 10th. — Proceed as far as Assiout. 
 
 Mondays, Febbuaby 4th and Maech 11th. — Visit the tombs of the wolf, &e., 
 at Assiout, returning in time to leave at 2 p.m. and steaming as far as Hadji 
 Kandeel. 
 
 Tuesdays, Feeeuaby Sihand Maech 12th. — After breakfast visit the grottoes of 
 Tel-el-Amarar, returning to the steamer for lunch and proceeding as far as Minieh, 
 where the sugar factory may be visited if the state of the river will permit. 
 
 Wednesdays, Febbuaby 6th and Maech 1 3th. — AiTive at Cairo . 
 
 PARES FOR COOK'S FIRST-CLASS TOURIST STEAMERS, 
 
 From Cairo to the First Cataract and back, First Class 
 
 throughout £50 
 
 For the few specially fitted berths for invalids... .. £60 
 From Cairo 1o the First Cataract and back by special 
 steamer, occupying four weeks. First Class 
 throughout .. , £65 
 
 . The above fares include living on the steamers, all necessary travelling expenses, 
 donkeys, English saddles for ladies, boats to cross the river when necessary, 
 according to the itinerary, as well as boats for visiting Philse and the Cataract, the 
 services of the dragoman and guides when necessary, and backsheesh to guides, 
 &c., leaving it optional, as in all steamboat arrangements, for the passengers to 
 give what they think well. to the servants on the steamer. 
 
 In considering these conditions passengers must please bear in mind that Thos. 
 CooE & Son pay the donkey boys and guides a fixed sum per day ; but however 
 much they may pay, the donkey boys especially expect a small backsheesh from 
 the passengers for each donkey ride. 
 
 Any passenger wishing to travel by lailway between Cairo and Assiout, either 
 to overtake the steamer on the upward voyage or to expedite their downward 
 journey, will be provided with railway tickets without extra charge. 
 
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 llotil^s from Jonhn U i\t ^ui 
 
 In conneotion witli Tours to Egjrpt and Palestine the routes from London 
 may be classified under two heads, as follows : 
 
 FIRST, ROUTES OF PERSONALLY CONDIJCTED TOURS. 
 
 (1) For long tours the usual course is to cross the English Channel hy either 
 the Calais route (the shortest sea passage) or by Dieppe (the shortest distance to 
 Paris). From Paris go direct to Turin by the Mont Cenis Tunnel, and from 
 Txirin by Bologna and Ancona to Brin^si, or vid Bale, Lucerne, the St. 
 Gothard, Milan, and Brindisi ; thence by steamer to Alexandria ; after 
 visiting Lower Egypt or going up the Nile, cross the Land of Goshen to 
 IsmaUia, and there take steamer on Suez Canal for Port Said ; from Port 
 Said sail to Jaffa and land there ; make the tour of the country, and re- 
 embark on steamer at Beyrout for Constantinople; thence to Athens, and 
 complete the tour of the Mediterranean and Adriatic by landing at Trieste ; 
 or cross hy the new railway to Patras, and by steamer to Corfu and Brindisi ; 
 return through Italy by Venice, Milan and Turin, and back to Paris and 
 London. 
 
 WhUst this is the general course of the Conductors, many modifications, ex- 
 tensions, or abridgments may be made to suit the convenience and meet the 
 wishes of the travellers, who may go through Italy and meet the Conductor at 
 Brindisi, or may go round by Nice, Mentone, &c., and meet the party at any 
 practicable point. The route from Palestine may be varied by going direct from 
 Smyrna to Athens, then to Constantinople, and up the Danube or by the 
 International Railway Route to Vienna ; or from Trieste any who choose can 
 go direct to Vienna. 
 
 From other ports of northern Italy the Alps can be crossed, so as to return by 
 Bavaria or Switzerland and the Rhine, or some other deviations from the beaten 
 track can be provided for if desired. 
 
 (2) The route for short tours to Lower Egypt and two or three weeks in 
 Palestine is usually from London to Turin, as described above, then to Genoa, 
 and takei steamer there for Alexandria, calling at Leghorn, Naples, and Messina. 
 Proceed through Lower Egypt to IsmaUia and Port Said, and thence to Jaffa. 
 Return from Jaffa to Alexandria, and then to Naples, and by railway 
 to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Turin, or round by Venice and Milan to' Turin 
 en route for Paris. This is the cheapest and most popular route to Palestine. 
 The whole may be covered from New York and back for 500 dols. to 600 dols. 
 first class, or 400 dols. to 500 dols. second class, hotels included. But this route 
 can be modified, extended, or abridged in many ways. It can be reversed 
 through Italy, and other lines of steamers can be taken from French or Italian 
 ports- In all cases of personally conducted tours it is necessary to define the route 
 the Conductor will take, and those who keep with him will fare the best, as all 
 baggage, omnibus, and other incidental charges are paid by him ; but if any 
 leave him it is not possible to control these expenses, and the travellers must 
 then take their own course and pay the extras. But tickets can be provided for 
 travelling by any line of railway or steamboat. 
 
 ROUTES FOR IISDEPENDENT TOURS. 
 
 Independent travellers, in small or large parties, can be provided with tickets 
 for any route they choose to select, either from America, London, Paris, Brussels, 
 Berlin, Switzerland, the South of France, or Italy. Travellers from any point 
 can have tickets to travel when they please and how they please, with or with- 
 out hotel coupons for days, weeks, or months. 
 
 We have a&eady intimated that we can provide passages from America by 
 any line of Atlantic steamers ; and taking London as the starting-point for the 
 East, the following, amongst other routes, can be provided for : 
 
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 London to Paris, via Dover and Calais, or via Dieppe ; London to Brussels, 
 via Calais, Ostend, Antwerp, or Flushing. 
 
 Paris , to Italy via Macon and Mont Cenis or BSlle and St. Gothard, or vxm 
 Marseilles, Cannes, Moe, Mentone, and Genoa. 
 
 Paris; tq Italy via Geneva or NeuohEitel, through Switzerland, and by any 
 Alpine route. 
 
 Londftn to Italy ma Calais, Rheims, Bale, through Switzerland, and by any 
 Alpine rottte. 
 
 Paris tff Brussels, Cologne, and up the Rhine to Heidelberg, Strasburg, Bale, 
 and over the St. Gothard or Splugen to Milan ; or from the Rhine to Munich, 
 and over the Brenner to Verona, and through Italy. 
 
 Italy may be traversed in going out or in returning, and travellers may tarry 
 a 8 long as they like in any Italian city. 
 
 All steamers from France or Italy are available. From Marseilles, the 
 Messageries Maritimes. From Genoa, Leghorn, or Naples, the Rubattino 
 steamers to either Alexandria or Port Said. From Venice, Ancona, or 
 Brindisi, the tried steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental line to Port 
 Said or Alexandria, which line is also available from Gravesend to Port 
 Said or Suez. From Venice, Trieste, or Brindisi, the Austrian Lloyd's, which 
 encompass the circle of the Levant, and the steamers of which line are most 
 practicable for Palestine tours. All our personally conducted tours go by that 
 line, because it is the best adapted for our purposes. 
 
 On the Syrian Coast we ofEer a choice of Austrian,French, Russian, or Egyptian 
 steamers. We thus command the entire steamboat accommodations of 
 Italy, France, and the Levant, and we can also give tickets to go through 
 Algiers, Sicily, and other islands of the Mediterranean, in connection with 
 Palestine, Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert. "We can furnish tickets to come 
 back to America by the south course of the Atlantic, from Gibraltar direct to 
 New York, without returning through Europe ; or we can arrange for visiting 
 Scandinavia either before or after the Palestine tour. 
 
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS. 
 
 In face of such variety of routes it is almost impossible to quote fares for 
 independent travel until it is known exactly what applicants desire. We prefer 
 that parties should make out their own programmes, or name the places they 
 wish to visit, and the time they wish to spend abroad, and we can then give 
 them quotations. It is also necessary that the class of accommodation should 
 be named, for whilst all American travellers prefer the very best steamboat 
 accommodation on the Atlantic, many are disposed to economise on European 
 railways and some on Mediterranean steamers. In Palestine, and in all our hotels, 
 we have but one class and one series of prices. In camp we will give the best 
 tents, the best food, and the best of all kinds of accommodation. 
 
 THROUGH ROUTES 
 
 PROM AMERICA AND ENGLAND TO PALESTINE. 
 
 To command the best lines of travel in harmony with these new and extended 
 Palestine arrangements is our earnest desire, and we are justified in saying that 
 we have the very best routes under our arrangements. There is not a line of 
 steamships crosses the Atlantic by which we cannot secure passages. The 
 managers of the best lines are our firmest friends,_and from both Liverpool and 
 Glasgow we have connection with the best railroad service of the United 
 Kingdom. We can offer to American travellers Pullman cars by day or night 
 or the best class of select compartment carriages. ' 
 
 If Americans wish to go to the East by the Western Route, we can send them 
 by San Francisco, Japan, China and India, to Egypt, or by the route of New 
 Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, and India. 
 
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 imlhmom ^att^ fox iast^rn fehllirs. 
 
 CAUTIONARY PROVISO, APPLICABLE TO ALL 
 EASTERN TOURS. 
 
 Wb have arranged our fares on a broad and liberal margin ; but there may arise in 
 Tours covering 120 days, and extending to 6,000 or 7,000 miles, many unavoidable 
 causes of detention or breaches of arrangement, and it is against such incidents, 
 altogether beyond human control, that we have to be on our guard. Quarantine is 
 a serious thing when once established in ^Eastern Ports, and by it all our plans 
 might be disarranged, and additional expenses to Travellers be added to loss of 
 time. Hitherto we have been singularly fortunate at JafBa, always, except twice, 
 being able to land and re-embark ; but we were, one season, detained three 
 days at Fort Said, waiting for the cessation of ■> storm. Passengers must not 
 expect always to escape losses ; and, were we to be driven from Fort Said to 
 Caifa or Beyrout, the loss of time and money must be borne by the Passengers, 
 In Palestine we have hitherto, with three exceptions, braved every storm and com- 
 pleted our Programme, whilst others have stuck fast by the way, lost important 
 portions of the Tours, or had to return to the coast and work round to some other 
 point by sea. Were we to be overcome by difficulties of weather, or any other 
 uncontrollable circumstance, the Travellers must bear the loss of time or money. 
 Should dispute arise betwixt a Dragoman and any of his Party on any point 
 affecting the contract, a clause in our Agreement provides that the matter shall 
 be referred to the nearest British Consul, whose decision shall be accepted by 
 both parties. We have stated in detail the provision we make for our Travellers in 
 return for their money, and beyond that we cannot hold ourselves responsible. 
 
 THOS. COOK & SON. 
 
 Baggage. — ^While anxious to render all possible assistance to the travellers in 
 the transport, care, and registration of baggage, Thos. Cooe & Son cannot admit 
 responsibility in cases of detention, stray conveyance, damage to or loss of luggage. 
 In all cases of transference it is necessary that luggage should be identified by its 
 owners, especially on entering and leaving hotels or steamers and at railway 
 stations ; and whenever luggage is subject to Customs' examination its owner must 
 be present to answer for it. 
 
 N.B. — Great care will be taken in the registration and conveyance of the trunks 
 or portmanteaus of the parties whilst travelling with the Conductor ; but it must be 
 distinctly understood that all small packages, such as hand-bags, umbrellas, travel- 
 ling-rugs, &c., must remain entirely under the control of the passenger, 
 
 Passpoets, with Turkish visa, are absolutely necessary for visiting Turkish 
 dominions. We will obtain them on the receipt of the written letter of identifica- 
 tion, signed by any minister, solicitor, banker, or . surgeon. The total cost, in- 
 cluding «j*a of the Turkish Consul, is 9s. 
 
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 CLOTHTNa. — What to wear in the East is the anxious concern of many intending 
 travellers. For gentlemen nothing can be superior to a moderately light Scotch 
 tweed ; for ladies a warm woollen dress ; for both ladies and gentlemen good 
 waterproofs are the most essential as extras. Strong boots or shoes are the best, 
 and goloshes may sometimes be used to advantage, also leggings. A strong 
 umbrella is frequently useful as a protection against sun or rain, and a 
 puggaree round the helmet or hat is useful. There are but few oppor- 
 tunities of wearing dress suits, and they are generally best at home, with 
 jewellery and costly dresses. Soap in metal boxes may be obtained at Cook's 
 Tourist Office, 
 
 FlEE Aems. — We never saw any advantage in taking them, 
 
 Monet,— Any money deposited at the Offices of Thos. Cook & Sow will be 
 repaid to the travellers in the currency of the countries, as required, English 
 gold or French gold is better than paper in the East. Our circular notes of 
 £5 or £10 are better than Bank of England notes — safer and less liable to 
 depreciation. 
 
 Foreign Money can be obtained at our Chief Office, Ludgate Circus, 
 London, and at our principal Branch Offices. 
 
 Medicines. — It is not our vocation to "prescribe," but aperient or astringent 
 medicines maybe required, and quinine is not unfrequently required in Palestine. 
 Parties had better consult their usual medical attendants or skilled apothecaries. 
 We have frequently taken out a small medicine-chest, and had no use for it ; 
 most travellers take something in accordance with their medical fancies, as 
 allopaths or homoeopaths. We specially recommend Pyretic Saline and Eno's 
 Fruit Salt as being useful and mild aperients. 
 
 Washing is done at the hotels, but not in camp or on the Nile steamers. 
 
 MEMORANDUM OF CONDITIONS APPLYING TO 
 ALL PASSENGERS BOOKED BY MESSRS. THOS. 
 COOK & SON FOR CAMPING ARRANGEMENTS IN 
 PALESTINE. 
 
 The Fares charged by Messrs. ThoS. Cook & Son provide for the 
 following accommodation dm.'ing the ,time passengers are in camp : — 
 
 1. Married couples to be provided with a tent properly fitted for two travellers. 
 
 2. No tent to be fitted with more than three beds, unless specially wished by 
 the passengers. 
 
 3. Any single passenger wishing to have a distinct tent can do so by paying 
 to any of Messrs. Cook & Son's authorised Agents, £5 extra upon the long 
 tour from Jaffa to Beyrout, and a proportionate charge for the short tour, 
 
 4. Each tent to be furnished with good iron bedsteads, mattresses, and all 
 necessary bed-clothing, centre table with cover, candlesticks, water bottle, and 
 glasses, carpets for the floors, movable seats, wash-stands (fitted) ; hooks on 
 tent poles for clothes, &c. 
 
 The Sa,loon and dining tent to be furnished with carpets, easy and ordinary 
 chairs, dining table and fittings complete, dinner and tea services same as in 
 an hotel. Saloon tent furnished to parties of three and upwards. The 
 kitchen tent to be fitted with oven and fireplace, and complete batterie de 
 cuisine, 
 
 5. The meals during camping will be as follows: BREAKFAST, consisting 
 of coffee and tea with milk, one dish of meat or poultry with fried potatoes 
 bread, butter, and jam. LUNCH, consisting of one dish of cold meat, anA 
 one of poultry, sardines, eggs, bread and cheese, and two kinds of dessert. 
 DINNER, consisting of soup, one dish of meat, withj vegetables, one of 
 poultry, sweets, cheese, and three kinds of dessert, with tea or coffee at or 
 immediately after, dinner. 
 
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 6. All passengers travelling under the special personally conducted party 
 arrangements to have the right of staying in hotels at Jaffa, Jerusalem, 
 Damaous, and Beyrout, by giving notice of their intention to do so before 
 leaving Jaffa or Beyrout. 
 
 7. Passengers travelling as private parties can also stay in the hotels at 
 above places by giving due notice to the Dragoman. 
 
 8. Each passenger to be provided with a good horse and English saddle and 
 bridle, and should the passenger have any Direction to the horse provided, such 
 objection to be made either between Jaffa and Jerusalem, or between Beyrout and 
 Damascus, in which case the Dragoman wiU do his best to meet the views of the 
 passengers ; but it must be distinctly understood that horses cannot be changed 
 after the passengers have left Jerusalem or Damascus for the long tour. 
 
 9. The fares quoted by Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son include all lauding and 
 embarkation fees; customhouse a-nibacksheesh to Government officials; there- 
 fore passengers wiU please understand that they are not justified in paying 
 anything above the fares, always excepting a collection which is usually made 
 as backsheesh to camp servants. This condition applies equally to personally 
 conducted parties or private parties. 
 
 10. In all cases, whether for personally conducted or private parties, Thos. 
 Cook & Sow's representative will have full control over aU the camp servants, 
 and the Dragoman will have the power of deciding at what point tents are to 
 be pitched and lunch served, and fixing the hour of departure in the morning. 
 
 11. Should the passengers consider they have cause for complaint against 
 the Dragoman, or any of the arrangements, they are requested to put the same 
 in writing, and either to hand it to Thos. Cook & Soir's Palestine Manager or 
 post it direct to the Chief Office. 
 
 12. The Dragoman to receive from each party a certificate of satisfaction, 
 and without such certificate no Dragoman will be further employed by Messrs. 
 Thos. Cook & Son. 
 
 13. Should the passengers consider they have any ground for complaint, and 
 should the Dragoman fail to meet their complaints, then the passengers are 
 requested to take the Dragoman before the British Consul at Jaffa, Jerusalem, 
 Damascus, or Beyrout, and his decision upon the point in dispute is to be final; 
 and should he decide in favour of the passengers against the Dragoman, or any 
 of the camp servants, his decision, whatever it may be, must be immediately 
 acted upon. 
 
 Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son deem it desirable to have such a clause in the 
 contract, although to the present date no passenger has had to appeal to the 
 Consul in respect to the arrangements. 
 
 14. The manager or a representative of Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son's business 
 in Palestine is stationed at Jaffa and Jerusalem, therefore any cummunica- 
 tions made by the passengers to him wiU be considered as though they 
 were made personally to the Firm, and he has full authority from the Firm to 
 carry out all arrangements he considers necessary for the comfort and accom- 
 modation of all travellers. 
 
 For further particulars apply to 
 
 THOS. COOK & SON, 
 
 Chief Office— Ludgate Circus, London. 
 
 FOBEION MOITEY can be obtained at the Chief Office of Thos. Cook 
 AND Son, Ludgate Circus, London, and at their principal Branch Offices. 
 
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 British Ophthalmic Hospital 
 
 AND HOSPICE OP THE ORDER OP ST. JOHN (English Language), AT 
 
 JERUSALEM. 
 
 THE British Ophthalmic Hospital was founded in 1882, at Jerusalem, 
 the ancient birthplace of the Order, by the English Branch of the 
 Venerable Order of St. John, and is chiefly intended to meet a long- 
 standing and acknowledged want by proTiding an institution under 
 skilful management where the afflicted poor fronf all parts of the 
 country may obtain proper treatment for the diseases of the eye, to 
 which the majority of the inhabitants are subject, and the terrible 
 consequences of which are so powerfully apparent to all travellers and 
 residents in the Holy Land. 
 
 It is a singular fact that, although nearly every civilised nation has some 
 charitable establishment in the Holy City, no hospital existed for the special 
 treatment of ophthalmia until the opening of the British Ophthalmic 
 Institution. During the short time it has been opened, the books of the 
 Hospital -will sho-w the enormous numbers which have taken advantage of it. 
 They also reveal the fact that the poor residents of the country have been 
 known to walk even from Damascus, and many of them from the district 
 of Gaza, for the purpose of obtaining relief and medicine. These poor people 
 have, in simple faith, freely and frankly flocked to the British Hospital. 
 They have, doubtless, been led there by the ascertained fact that the 
 Hospital is open to all without reference to creed or sect, and that under no 
 circumstances is the influence of the Hospital to be used for any attempts at 
 proselytizing. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has accorded the Hospital his 
 special protection, and, through the Governor of Jerusalem, His Excellency Raouf 
 Pacha, generously contributed nearly jei,000 towards the purchase of the 
 present site and buildings. The local management of the Hospital is governed 
 by a small committee of British subjects. Associates of the Order of St. John, 
 under the presidency of Mr. Noel Temple Moore, C.M.G., H.B.M.'s Consul. A 
 duly qualified British surgeon. Dr. Ogilvie, is the resident surgeon ; and either 
 he or Mrs. Ogilvie will have pleasure in receiving English and other travellers 
 interested in the work, and in showing them the Hospital in operation. It is 
 to be regretted that at present the funds of the Committee are so limited that 
 they can only meet the demand of a very small percentage of the poor inhabitants 
 of the country who require indoor treatment ; and we know of no more deserv- 
 ing object than the suffering natives who, to obtain relief, must be treated 
 indoors and undergo operations. We therefore do not hesitate to urge upon 
 all travellers to leave behind them some small donation to assist the Committee 
 in fitting up more wards, and enable them to be of still greater service to those 
 who cannot possibly pay for medical attention. Donations will be received 
 either by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, or by any of the Agents of Thos. 
 Cook & Son. 
 
 P.S. — The best time for visiting the Institution, with a view of seeing 
 patients under treatment, is between 7 and 10 a.m., on any Monday, Wednes- 
 day, or Friday ; but the Institution is open daily, and patients are received at 
 all hours. 
 
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 'OUTLINE OP THE HISTORY OF THE SYRIAN MISSION OP THE 
 AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 
 
 I. PERIOD. 1820—1840. 
 
 A period of Exploration and Preparation. — Intolerance, persecution and 
 banishment, wars and pestilence. 
 
 1822. The American Arabic Press founded in Malta. 
 
 1833. The Press removed to Beyrout. 
 
 The first Girls' Schools ever opened in the Turkish Empire commenced by 
 American ladies in Beyrout aud Mount Lebanon. 
 
 The first Protestant martyr, Asaad-esh Shidiak, starved to death in the 
 Maronite Monastery of Eannobin by order of the Maronite Patriarch. 
 
 "When the missionaries returned from Malta to Beyrout in 1833 one small 
 row boat came out to meet them, containing^ the entire Protestant community 
 of the Turkish Empire, viz., five persons. (Now, in 1887, about 50,000.) 
 
 The Greek war, the plague, the invasion of Ibrahim Pasha, son of Mohammed 
 Ali of Egypt, and the disturbed state of the country rendered continuous 
 missionary labour impossible. 
 
 II. PERIOD. 1840—1860. 
 
 From the expulsion of Ibrahim Pasha by the European Powers to the Civil 
 
 War and massacres of 1860. Protestantism recognised by the Turkish 
 
 Sultan as one of the religions of the Empire. 
 
 March, 18M. The Sultan issued a firman that Christians of all sects are 
 not to be insulted nor to be persecuted for their religion. 
 
 1840. Boys' Boarding School in Beyrout, under Mr. Hebard. 
 
 1847. The Protestant Charter of Rights was issued by the Grand Vizier in 
 Constantinople. (See Goodell's 40 years in the Turkish Empire.) 
 
 1850. The Sultan, Abdul Mejid, issued an Imperial Firman, called " The 
 Imperial Protestant Charter of Rights," guaranteeing to the Protestants all 
 the rights and privileges of other Christian sects in the Empire. 
 
 1846. The first Boys' Boarding School was opened in Abeih, Mount 
 Lebanon ; also the first Girls' Boarding School in Beyrout, under Dr. and 
 Mrs. De Forest. 
 
 1848. First Syrian Evangelical Church organized with 18 members. 
 1848. New translation of the Bible into the Arabic language, begun by 
 
 Rev. Eli Smith, D.D. 
 1853-5. Crimean War. British influence predominant. 
 
 1857. Death of Dr. Eli Smith. Translation of the Bible continued by 
 Rev. Cornelius V. A. Van Dyck^ D.D., M.D. 
 
 1858. American Female Seminary opened in Suk-el-Ghurb, Mount 
 Lebanon. 
 
 1860. Translation and printing of Arabic New Testament completed by 
 Dr. Van Dyck. 
 
 III. PERIOD. 1860—1888. 
 
 Light out of Darkness.— New impulse to Christian Education and great 
 advance in civilization. 
 
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 1860. Civil War between the Dnizes and Maronites in Lebanon, followed 
 by bloody massacres in Lebanon, Hasbeiya, and Damascus. 
 
 Occupation of Syria for nine months by 6,000 French troops, on behaU of the 
 European powers, and with the consent of the Sultan. 
 
 A new Government^ instituted in Lebanon under a Latin Christian Pasha, 
 appbinted with the approval of the six European Powers. 
 
 Increase of European and Christian interest in Syria. New educational and 
 benevolent institutions founded. 
 
 1860. British Syrian Schools founded by Mrs. Bowen Thompson. These 
 schools now have 3,000 children under instruction in Syria, chiefly girls. 
 
 1860. Prussian Deaconesses' Orphanage founded in Beyrout with 130 
 orphans. 
 
 Up to the year 1888 they have trained about 800 orphan girls. 
 
 1862. American Female Seminary re-opened in Beyrout with native Syrian 
 teachers. 
 
 1862. Oct. Suk Female Seminary transferred to Sidon. 
 
 1863. Syrian Protestant College incorporated by the Legislature of the 
 State of New York. 
 
 1865. The College formally opened in Beyrout. Number of students 
 Jan. 1st, 1888, 175. 
 
 Female Boarding School founded by Mrs. E. "Watson in Shemlan, Mount 
 Lebanon. (Under the Society for promoting Female Education in the East.) 
 
 Free Church of Scotland Lebanon Schools, Shueir, Mount Lebanon. 
 
 Kirk of Scotland Jewish Misbion and Schools in Beyrout. 
 
 Miss Taylor's St. George's Moslem Girls' School in Beyrout. 
 
 1873. American Female Seminary opened in Tripoli, Syria. 
 
 1 1877. Mohammedan " Society of Benevolent Intentions" opens schools for 
 girls in Beyrout, Damascus, Tripoli, and other places. 
 
 Greeks, Papal Greeks, Maronites, and Jews open schools for boys and girls. 
 
 1888. The whole number of children in Protestant Schools in Syria is 
 about 15,000, of whom at least 7,000 are girls. 
 
 The number of Protestants enrolled as a civil sect is about 6,000. 
 
 "Whole number of pages printed at the American Press in Beyrout from the 
 first is (1887) 345,000,000. 
 
 There are 11 Arabic Journals in beyrout : — 1 ^ Turkish official, 3 Protestant, 
 
 2 Papal, 2 Gb'eek, 2 Moslem, 1 Literary. 
 
 Three hospitals have been founded since 1860: — St.- John's, Protestant 
 (Knights of St. John, Berlin) ; St. Joseph, Papal ; the Russian Greek 
 Hospital. 
 
 1887. The MejUs El Maarif, or Board of Public Instruction of His Imperial 
 Majesty the Sultan, the Caliph of Mohammed, placed the seal of authorization 
 upon 33 different editions of the Arabic Scriptures and parts of Scriptures, 
 
 The Local Board in Damascus also approved 330 different Arabic publications 
 of the American Press in Beyrout. 
 
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 Names of Royal and Distinguished Persons wlio have traveiled 
 under the Arrangements of Thos. Coolc and Son. 
 
 Theik Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. 
 H. R. H. Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorne). 
 His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught. 
 Their Royal Highnesses Princes Albert Victor & George of Wales. 
 Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, and 
 His Highness the Duke of Teck. 
 H.R.H. Victor Emanuel Prince of Naples. 
 The Emperor and Empress of Brazil. 
 Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark. 
 H.R.H. Prince Alexander of Hesse. 
 H.R.H. Prince Heinrich of Prussia. 
 H. H. Prince Bernard of Saxe Weimar. 
 H. H. Prince Charles of Lichenstein. 
 Prince Waldemar of Denmark. 
 Duke de Chartres. 
 Prince Jerome Napoleon. 
 
 Princes Charles and Oscar of Sweden, and Suite. 
 The Grand Duke of Saxony. 
 Prince George Karageorgbvitch. 
 
 His Highness the Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda. 
 
 His Highness the Maharajah Holkar of Indore. 
 
 His Highness the Rao of Kutch. 
 
 His Highness the late Regent of Kholapore. 
 
 His Highness the Thakore of Morvee. 
 
 His Highness Rajah Pertab Singh of Narsinhgarh, Central India. 
 
 The Thakore Sahib of Limbrl 
 
 The Thakore Sahib of Gondal. 
 
 The late Thakore Sahib of Wadwan. 
 
 The Nawab Amir-i-Akbar Osman Jah, Bahadur. 
 
 The Nawab Sir Salar Jung. 
 
 The Nawab Iqbal-ud-Dowlah, Vikar-ool-Oomra, Bahadur. 
 
 The Nawab Zafer Jung. 
 
 The Nawab Saadat All 
 
 The Nawab Munir-ul-Mulk. 
 
 The Nawab Mahomed Omar Alt Khan. 
 
 KuNWAR Hirnam Singh. 
 
 The Sir Desai of Vantmari, Vala, Belgaum. 
 
 His Highness ex-Khedive Ismail. 
 
 His Highness Prince Abbas Bey. 
 
 His Highness Prince Mohammed Ali Bey. 
 
 His Highness Hassan Tewfik Pacha. 
 
 His Royal Highness Prince Devawongsb of Siam. 
 
 Prince Kitegiker \ 
 
 Prince Rabi ( pguR Sons of the King of Siam. 
 
 Prince Pravit I 
 
 Prince Chira y 
 
 AND Suite. 
 
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 Col. Aedagh 
 
 Hon. Caroline Beresford 
 
 Lord Alcester 
 
 Lady De Bathe 
 
 Lady Ashburton 
 
 Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 
 
 Countess op Aylesford 
 
 Hon. Walter Bagot 
 
 Earl of Antrim 
 
 Col. Biddulph 
 
 Duke and Duchess of Athole 
 
 Mr. and Lady Wilfreda 
 
 Lord Arundel of Wardour 
 
 Biddulph 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot 
 
 Baker Pasha 
 
 Mr. H. L. Antrobus 
 
 Lady Audrey Butler 
 
 Gen. Sir Jas. F. Alexander 
 
 Count Herbert Bismarck 
 
 Sir Frederic and Lady Arrow 
 
 Gen. Sir Redvers Buller 
 
 Hon. Mr. Anson 
 
 The late Col. Burnaby 
 
 Hon. George W. Allan 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Blunt 
 
 Earl of Airlie 
 
 Sir Reginald Barnewill 
 
 Aali Bey 
 
 Sir Algernon and Lady 
 
 Mr. L. Anstruther 
 
 Borthwick 
 
 Mr. A'Court 
 
 Hon. Lady Brooke 
 
 Lord Ashley 
 
 Major-Gen. Burrows 
 
 Hon. Mks. Ashley 
 
 Lord Boston 
 
 Earl and Countess of 
 
 Gen. Blackford 
 
 Annesley 
 
 Lord Charles Bruce 
 
 Col. Annesley 
 
 Major-Gen. Barry 
 
 Sir James Allport 
 
 Lady F. Blunt 
 
 Sir Hfjjry and Lady Have- 
 
 Bishop of Beverley 
 
 lock Allan 
 
 Mr. J. W. Bourke 
 
 Sir Archibald and Lady 
 
 Lady Susan Bourke 
 
 Alison 
 
 Lady Charlotte Smith Barry 
 
 Ali Pasha Ghemel 
 
 Mr. a. G. Bagot 
 
 Ali Pasha Gamali 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Byng 
 
 Duke of Buckingham 
 
 Mrs. Bodenham 
 
 General Sir A. Borton 
 
 Lady Beauchamp 
 
 Countess of Buchan 
 
 The Lord Chief Baron 
 
 Lord and Lady Brassby and 
 
 Admiral Blomfield 
 
 Family 
 
 Hon. and Rev. T. E. C. Byng 
 
 Bishop of Bedford 
 
 Hon. H. Bruce 
 
 Bishop Blyth 
 
 Sir F. Burdett 
 
 Lady Beatson 
 
 Blum Pasha 
 
 Lord and Lady Chas. Beres- 
 
 His Grace the Archbishop 
 
 FORD 
 
 of Canterbury 
 
 Sir Evelyn and Lady Baring 
 
 His Grace the late Arch- 
 
 Sir Samuel and Lady Baker 
 
 bishop of Canterbury 
 
 Lady Bisshopp 
 
 Lord and Lady Carrington 
 
 Rev. Canon Bell 
 
 The late Bishop Claughton 
 
 Lady Frederic Beauclerk 
 
 Lord Chelmsford 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Bertie 
 
 Dow. Lady Dick Cunyngham 
 
 Lady Frances Baillie 
 
 Earl Cairns (The late) 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blount 
 
 Earl Cairns 
 
 Mme. Bischoffsheim 
 
 Lady Adelaide Cadogan 
 
 Hon. Howe Browne 
 
 LADY Jane Cole 
 
 Hon. W. Bethell 
 
 Lord Francis Cecil 
 
 Hon. H. Brodrick 
 
 Viscount Clifden 
 
 Hon. and Mrs. C. F. Berkeley 
 
 Hon. H. Coke 
 
 Lieut.-Col. De Bathe 
 
 Lord and Lady Castletown 
 
 Professor Blackie 
 
 Lord E. Cecil 
 
 Sir Redmond Barry 
 
 The late Viscount Campden 
 
 Mr. Oscar Browning 
 
 The Rt. Hon. W. Coghlan 
 
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 Marquis Carmarthen 
 
 Lord and Lady Cremorne 
 
 Earl Compton 
 
 Earl and Countess Cowper 
 
 Earl of Clarendon 
 
 Earl of Chesterfield 
 
 Hon. Alexander Campbell 
 
 Mr. W. S. Stirling Crawford 
 (the late) 
 
 Gen. Christie 
 
 Gen. Crawford 
 
 Gen. Carrington 
 
 Admiral Coote 
 
 Sir Chas. Crossley 
 
 Lord Carlingford 
 
 Bishop of Chichester 
 
 Sir Edmund du Cane 
 
 Hon. Ethel Cadogan 
 
 Sir W. Clayton 
 
 The late Sir Joseph Copley 
 
 Miss Copley 
 
 Lady Margaret Cecil 
 
 The late Colin Minton 
 Campbell, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Bishop of Carlisle 
 
 Rt. Hon. Stephen Cave 
 
 Sir G. and Lady Campbell 
 
 Bishop of Cape Town 
 
 Sir Auckland Colvin 
 
 Countess Cottenham 
 
 Col. and Mrs. Corbett 
 
 Major Childers 
 
 Mr. C. Childers 
 
 Rev. Canon Cazenove 
 
 Lady Alice Cole 
 
 Mrs. Paulet Compton 
 
 Hon. T. Campbell 
 
 Gen. Sir Arthur and Lady 
 Cunynghame 
 
 Dowager Viscountess Can- 
 terbury 
 
 Sir Archibald Campbell 
 
 Col. Colville 
 
 General Chichester 
 
 General Carey 
 
 The Dean of Chester 
 
 Earl of Cawdor 
 
 Lady Evelyn Campbell 
 
 Viscount Cranbourne 
 
 Viscount and Lady Cran- 
 
 BROOKE 
 
 Earl of Denbigh 
 Mr. and Mrs. Derenthal 
 Earl and Countess Ddcie 
 Earl and Countess Donough- 
 more 
 
 Countess Dowager Donough- 
 
 MORE 
 
 Earl and Countess of Dun- 
 
 donald 
 Mr. Allan Drummond 
 Earl Dudley (the late) 
 Viscountess Downe 
 Sir J. Duckworth 
 Lady Dunraven 
 Lord Stewart De Decies 
 Lord Dynevor 
 Bishop of Dover 
 Viscount Dalrymple 
 Lady Elliot Drake 
 Lieut.-General Sir Percy 
 
 Douglas 
 Major-General M. C. Dixon 
 General Sir C. Daubeny 
 Major Dixon, M.P. 
 General Devereux 
 Hon. Capt. Drummond 
 Admiral Douglas , 
 Rev. Canon Drinkwater 
 Lady Donaldson 
 Hon. Mrs. Denman 
 Lady Dry 
 Mr. J. S. Drummond 
 The Danish Minister 
 Hon. Hay Drummond 
 Lord Deas 
 The late Mr. Hepworth 
 
 Dixon 
 Hon. G. Duncan 
 Rev. Canon Davys 
 Bishop of Dunedin 
 Sir Lionel Darell 
 Major-Gen. Dormer 
 Lord and Lady Dormer 
 Lady Dowling 
 Countess Dowager Dun- 
 
 GANNON 
 
 Earl and Countess of Duf- 
 
 FERiN and Family 
 Sir Gavan and Lady Duffy 
 Sir George Dallas 
 Lt.-Col. Digby 
 Earl & Countess of Dunmore 
 Bishop of Exeter 
 The late General Earlb 
 Sir Chas. and Lady Eastlake 
 Sir Gilbert Clayton East 
 Marchioness of Ely 
 The Hon. A. Erskine 
 Gen. Eyre 
 
 Sir John Stanley Errington 
 Lord Egmont 
 
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 Lady Estcourt 
 Lord Emly 
 Lady Elphinstone 
 Col. Elphinstone 
 Sir W. Eden 
 Sir a. H. Elton 
 Eissa Pasha 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Gilbert Elliot 
 
 Bishop of Edinburgh (the 
 late) 
 
 Marquess of Ely 
 
 Bishop of Exeter and Family 
 
 Marquis and Marchioness of 
 Exeter and Family 
 
 Lord Enfield 
 
 Hon. Capt. Elliot 
 
 Mr. and Lady Victoria Evans 
 Freake 
 
 Lady Louisa French 
 
 Lord Foley 
 
 Admiral Fanshawe 
 
 Mr. Ponsonby Fane 
 
 Sir W. Farquhar 
 
 Col. Sir Francis Festing 
 
 Col. Foster 
 
 Col. Lyon Fremantle 
 
 Sir W- Fitzherbert 
 
 Col. Freke 
 
 Lord F. Fitzgerald 
 
 Sir Gerald Fitzgerald 
 
 Sir William Fox 
 
 Mr. Fitzgerald 
 
 Col. Fane 
 
 Gen. Ford 
 
 Hon. D. T. Fortescue 
 
 Hon. S. Fortescue 
 
 Hon. a. N. Forbes 
 
 Rev. Canon Fleming 
 
 Lady F. Fitzclarence 
 
 Lady AugustIis Fitz- 
 Clarence 
 
 Hon. B. Fitz-Patrick 
 Lieut. -General Forrest 
 Hon. & Rev. Mr. Fremantle 
 General Feilding 
 Lady Louisa Feilding 
 Lady Mary Feilding 
 Viscount Feilding 
 Hon. and Rev. C. Feilding 
 Count and Countess Fleuey 
 Lady Frankland 
 Prince Galitzin 
 Lord Glentworth 
 Earl of Gainsborough 
 General Sir Gerald Graham 
 The late Lady Lucy Grant 
 
 Sir John and Lady Gorst 
 
 Admiral Sidney Grenff.ll 
 
 Lieut.-Gen. Sir John St. 
 George 
 
 Bishop of Guildford 
 
 Hon. and Rev. Edward Carr 
 Glynn 
 
 Col. Guest 
 
 General Gordon (the late) 
 
 Sir James and Lady Gell 
 
 Rev. Canon Gunther 
 
 Me. Goring 
 
 Lady Duff Gordon 
 
 Miss Duff Gordon 
 
 Mr. Gresley, 
 
 SiE Seton Gordon 
 
 Bishop of Gloucester and 
 Beistol 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 
 M.P. 
 
 Mrs. Gladstone and Family 
 
 General Grant 
 
 Sir Lepel Griffin 
 
 Archdeacon Gray 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Grey 
 
 Lady Galway 
 
 Lord Gwydyr 
 
 SiE Charles Goring 
 
 General Sir F. Grenfell 
 
 Bishop of Gibraltar 
 
 Lady Adela Goff 
 
 Marquis of Hartington 
 
 Lady Laura Hempton 
 
 Sir T. C. Hope 
 
 Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen 
 
 Lady Claude Hamilton 
 
 Lady Havelock (the late) 
 
 Lady Haines 
 
 Baron HengelmulLoe 
 
 Geneeal Sir Arthur Heebert 
 
 Hon. Lady Hotham 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Hobaet 
 
 Lord Herries 
 
 Rear-Admiral Robert Hall 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Heathcote 
 
 Mrs. Heygate 
 
 Sir James Hamilton 
 
 Sir B. F. Hall, Bart. 
 
 Capt. C. N. Hoare 
 
 Rev. Newtman Hall 
 
 W. U. Heygate, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Sir Feedeeick Heygate, M.P. 
 
 Charles Beresford-Hope. 
 Esq. ' 
 
 Lady Hampson 
 Mr. and Hon. Mrs. King 
 Harman 
 
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 Dowager Lady Hatherton 
 
 Lady Jane Herbert 
 
 Lady Rachel Howard 
 
 Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson 
 
 Marquis d'Harcoukt 
 
 Dowager Marchioness of 
 Huntley 
 
 Capt. Kenneth Howard 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Hunter 
 
 Sir Joseph Hooker 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Washington 
 
 . Hibbert 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Howard 
 
 Viscount Harberton 
 
 Sir John Hanham 
 
 Admiral Sir John Hay and 
 Miss Dalrymple Hay 
 
 Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby 
 
 Lady Harriet Harvey 
 
 Baron Huddleston 
 
 Lady Diana Huddleston 
 
 Sir Arthur Hobhouse 
 
 Mrs. Maxwell Heron 
 
 Rev. Lord Charles Hervey 
 
 Col. Hansard 
 
 Mr. Rider Haggard 
 
 General Hamilton 
 
 Viscount Hood 
 
 Viscount Hereford 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Herbert of 
 Llanarth 
 
 General Hamley 
 
 Sir Henry Holland 
 
 Lady Alfred Hervey 
 
 Lady Mary Hervey 
 
 Lady Holland 
 
 Mr. Bret Harte 
 
 Lady Harington 
 
 Dean of Hereford 
 
 Sir Henry Halford 
 
 The Hon. Gathorne Hardy, 
 Mrs. Hardy, and family 
 
 Lord Ilchester 
 
 Lady Inglis 
 
 Major-Gen. Charles Irvine 
 
 Col. and Hon. Mrs. Ives 
 
 Dowager Lady Inchiquin 
 
 Admiral Inglefield 
 
 Issa Pasha 
 
 Julia Countess of Jersey 
 
 Hon. Miss Jocelyn 
 
 Mr. E. Jenkins, M.P. 
 
 Mrs. a. R. Campbell John- 
 stone 
 
 Hon. N. Josceline 
 
 Hon. Mrs. J . Jocelyn 
 
 Mrs. Clarke Jervoise 
 Hon. W. M. Jervis 
 Lady Caroline Kerrison 
 Lord Kintore 
 Viscountess Kilcoursie 
 Lord and Lady Alexander 
 
 Kennedy 
 Lord Walter Kerr 
 Lord Henry Kerr 
 Hon. Arthur Kinnaird 
 Major Kitchener, R.E. 
 Sir R. G. Key 
 Lord Kinnaird 
 Hon. F. Kinnaird 
 Col. Knollys 
 Dean of Kilmore 
 Mr. Knollys 
 Marquis and Marchioness of 
 
 Lansdowne and Suite 
 Marquis op Lorne 
 Lord Lilford (the late) 
 Lady Lurgan 
 Lady Lamb 
 Lady Anna Loftus 
 Earl of Limerick 
 Lord Alex. Gordon Lennox 
 Hon. C. Lennox 
 Lord Lovat 
 Major-Gen. Lysons 
 Gen. R. C. Lawrence 
 Col. Sussex Lennox 
 Capt. Victor Law 
 Capt. Lane 
 Sir James Longden 
 Miss Shaw Le Fevre 
 Lt.-Col. Lascelles 
 Sir Owen Lanyon 
 Lady Adela Larking 
 Lady Frances Lloyd 
 Hon. Lancelot Lowther 
 Lady Lyveden 
 Mrs. Northall Laurie 
 Miss Leveson 
 Lord Lawrence 
 Ladv Lawrence 
 Sir Wilfrid and Lady Lawson 
 H. W. Lawson, Esq., M.P. 
 Mr. Leigh 
 Bishop of Lichfield 
 Mr. Algernon Law 
 Mr. a. T. Lyttelton 
 Rev. Canon Lonsdale 
 The late Canon Leighton 
 Mr. Basil Levett 
 Mr. Sampson Lloyd 
 General Loring 
 
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 Sir John Lubbock 
 
 Viscount Maldek (the late) 
 
 Col. Labalmondiere 
 
 Hon. L. Massey 
 
 Countess of Lonsdale 
 
 Lady Meade 
 
 DowR. Countess of Lonsdalb 
 
 Lady McAusland 
 
 Lady Ida Lowe 
 
 Hon. V. Montague 
 
 Admiral Luard 
 
 Hon. C. MosTy-N 
 
 M. Gay de Lussac 
 
 General S. F. Macmullen 
 
 Earl and Countess Leitrim 
 
 Bishop McDougall 
 
 Sir Frederick Leighton, 
 
 The Macgillycuddy 
 
 P.R.A. 
 
 Hon. W. T. Marriott 
 
 Lady Hester Leeke 
 
 Earl and Countess of Meath 
 
 Sir Edmund and Lady Lech- 
 
 Lord R. Montagu 
 
 mere 
 
 Lady Mackenzie 
 
 Sir T. B. Lennakd 
 
 Lt.-Col. W. G. Montgomery 
 
 The Duke and Duchess op 
 
 Lady Miller 
 
 Manchester 
 
 Alderman Sir William 
 
 Lord Monteagle 
 
 McArthur (the late) 
 
 Countess of Macclesfield 
 
 Sir William Merewether 
 
 Duke of Montrose 
 
 Sir Henry and Lady Maine 
 
 Duchess Dowager of Mont- 
 
 Sir Arthur Nicholson 
 
 rose 
 
 Earl of Mulgrave 
 
 Sir Edward Malet 
 
 s Major-General Macintyre 
 
 Earl Manvers 
 
 Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, 
 M.P. 
 
 Earl of Morley 
 
 Lady Montgomery 
 
 General Macdonald 
 
 Lady Susan Melville 
 
 H. E. Mahomed Zechi Bey 
 
 Viscountess Maidstone 
 
 Major Molineux 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Morrison 
 
 Lord, Mount-Temple 
 
 Count Moltke 
 
 Sir Frederick and Lady 
 
 Countess Mayo 
 
 MiLNER 
 
 Lord Robt. Montague, M.P. 
 
 Lord Napier of Magdala 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Muir 
 
 Lord Northbrook 
 
 Admiral Miller 
 
 Duke of Norfolk 
 
 'Count Metternich 
 
 Lady D. Nevill 
 
 Gen. McMurdo 
 
 Major-Gen. H. Nott 
 
 Gen. Colin Mackenzie 
 
 Capt. Napier 
 
 Sir Jas. Malcolm 
 
 Hon. Richard Nugent 
 
 Sir J. Mitchel 
 
 Rev. George Nugee 
 
 Sir G. Montgomery, M.P. , 
 
 Lady Nicholson 
 
 Sir C. R. McGregor, Bart. 
 
 Hon. G. Nugent 
 
 Sir R. and Lady MusGRAyE 
 
 Sir Henry Norman 
 
 The late Samuel Morley, 
 
 Rev. Canon Nisbet 
 
 Esq., M.P. 
 
 Hon. R. Napier 
 
 Capt. E. Molyneux 
 
 General Napier 
 
 Lady Murphy 
 
 Lady Nottage 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Milne 
 
 Sir F. Outram 
 
 Col. Sir E. Scott Moncrieff 
 
 Gen. Ogle, R.E. 
 
 Viscountess Milton 
 
 Col. Sir Chas. D'Oyley 
 
 Sir Benson and Lady Max- 
 
 Gen. Owen 
 
 well 
 
 Admiral Sir E. and Lady 
 
 Gen. McNeill ^v 
 
 ; Ommanney 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Mathias 
 
 Lord Oranmore 
 
 Major-Gen. Mould 
 
 Earl and Countess of Onslow 
 
 Gen. Mitchell 
 
 Lady Otway 
 
 Hon! Mrs. Montgomery 
 
 Bishop OxiJnden 
 
 Miss Mitfoed 
 
 Lord Paisley 
 
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 Lady E. Pepys 
 
 The Hon. Mrs. Petre 
 
 Earl Percy 
 
 Lord and Lady Poltimore 
 
 Lord and Lady Alfred Paget 
 
 Sir Thos. Pasley 
 
 Sir Rose Price 
 
 Sir Geo. Brooke Pechell 
 
 Col. Sir Richard Pollock 
 
 Major Percival, R.A. 
 
 Earl of Portsmouth 
 
 Sir G. Baden Powell 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Peel . 
 
 Sir Robert and Lady Emily 
 
 Peel 
 Lady Sophia Palmer 
 Mr. R. Puleston 
 Right Rev. Bishop Perry 
 Count Piper 
 Viscount Pollington 
 Gen. Sir Henry Ponsonby 
 Gen. Prendergast 
 Lady Mary Primrose 
 Lady Phear 
 Lady Pollock 
 The Dean of St. Paul's 
 Hon. Gerald Ponsonby 
 Hon. Mrs. A. C. D. Powlbtt 
 Lady E. Parker 
 Col. Paget 
 Hon. Mrs. Pereira 
 Hon. a. Powlett 
 Lt.-Col. Sir Norman Pringle 
 Hon. Leopold Powys 
 Hon. and Rev. Edward V. R. 
 
 Powys 
 Mr. G. H. Portal 
 Sir Aug. Paget 
 Lady Anna Chandos Pole 
 Lord Chas. Pratt 
 Duke & Duchess of Rutland 
 Baron and Baroness Ed. 
 
 Rothschild 
 Lady Ribblesdale 
 Bakon Gustave Rothschild 
 Baron Arthur Rothschild 
 Earl and Countess of Rose- 
 
 BERY 
 
 Lord Radstock 
 I^rd Ranelagh 
 Sir Thos. Riddell 
 Col. Ramsden 
 Major E. Napier Raikes 
 Rev. Dr. Robertson 
 Rev. Canon Rickards 
 Sir Charles Reed 
 
 Admiral Ross 
 Sir Edward Read 
 Sir Fred. Robinson 
 
 Lord Raglan 
 
 Sir John Rose 
 
 Countess of Rosse 
 
 Sir Rawson Rawson 
 
 General Pitt Rivers 
 
 Lord and Lady H. Russell 
 
 Sir Wm. Rose, K.C.B. 
 
 The Duke of Sutherland 
 
 The late Earl of Shrews- 
 bury 
 
 Earl of Selborne 
 
 Earl and Countess Spencer 
 
 Mr. Spiegelberg 
 
 Sir Percy F. Shelley 
 
 Countess Shaftesbury 
 
 Marquis and Marchioness of I 
 Stafford 
 
 Sir Greville and Lady 
 Smythe 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Stonor (the late) 
 
 Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth 
 
 Sir John and Lady Sebright 
 
 Viscountess Strangford (the 
 
 LATE 
 
 Sir John Strachey 
 Sir Francis Stapleton 
 Sir Francis Sandford, C.B. 
 H. E. MU.STAPHA Pasha Sadyk 
 Lord and Lady Selkirk 
 Sir Peter Stokes 
 Mr. Leo Schuster 
 Sir Tatton and Lady Sykes 
 Marquis and Marchioness of 
 
 Salisbury and Family 
 M. Leon Say 
 Lady Sitwell 
 
 Mr. H. Villiers Stuart, M.P. 
 General E. Somerset 
 Vice-Admiral W. H. Stewart 
 Col. Stacpoole 
 Admiral Selwyn 
 Lt.-Col. Henry Shakespeare 
 The late Gen. Sir Herbert 
 
 Stewart 
 Mr. & Mrs. Duncombe-Shafto 
 Mr. C. H. Spurgeon 
 Lord Shand 
 Hon. Mrs. Scott • 
 Mr. Spencer Stanhope 
 Gen. Shipley 
 Count Stroganof 
 Mr. Justice Stephen 
 Hon. Mrs. Sandilands 
 
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 Very Rev. Dean Spooner 
 Count Seckendorf 
 Sefer Pasha 
 Right Hon. W. H. Smith, 
 
 M.P., AND Family 
 Hon. Horatia Stopford 
 Sir George Holme Spears 
 Sir Barrington Simeon 
 Sir Robert Stuart 
 Sir R. Stewart 
 Col. Sneyd 
 Lady Mary Saurin 
 General and Mrs. Stuart 
 Lord Sudeley 
 Col. Swaine 
 Princepessa Teora 
 Marchioness of Tweeddale 
 Bishop of Truro 
 Sir Wm, Topham 
 Earl and Countess of Tan- 
 
 kerville 
 Sir Richard and Lady Temple 
 Gen. Tremenheere , 
 
 Col. Thynne 
 
 Col. the Hon. Wm. P. Talbot 
 Viscount Tarbat 
 Lady Tierney 
 Hon. Mrs. Toke 
 Canon Tristram 
 Rev. Arthur Tooth 
 Hon. Mrs. Trotter 
 Lady Meysey Thompson ' 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Twiss 
 Gen. Taylor 
 Hon. and Rev. Edward S. 
 
 Talbot 
 Lord de Tabley 
 General C. Tower 
 Sir Guy Travers 
 Lord Chas. Thynne 
 Professor Tyndal 
 General Travers 
 Col. the Hon. Reginald 
 
 Talbot 
 Hon. and Rev. Wm. Talbot 
 Lady Trevelyan 
 Tonino Pasha 
 Mr. M. Vanderbilt 
 Lord Vaux of Harrowden 
 Sir R. Vincent 
 Col. Smyth Vereker 
 
 The Hon. Mrs. G. C. Vernon 
 
 Rt. Rev. Bishop Vaughan 
 
 Mr. Vandeleur 
 
 Lord Vernon 
 
 Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Hope Verb 
 
 Mr. & Mrs. Howard Vincent 
 
 Lt.-Col. Viscount de Vesci 
 
 Hon. G. Vernon 
 
 Dowager Marchioness of 
 
 Waterford 
 Sir S. and Lady Waterlow 
 Sir Arnold White 
 Dowager Lady Wake and 
 
 Family 
 Dowager Lady Wenlock 
 Lady Walsingham 
 Earl of Wharncliffe 
 Countess op Winchilsea 
 Lord and Lady Wynford 
 Lady Wingate 
 Mr. Walter, M.P. 
 Hon. Mrs. Way 
 Sir John Walrond, Bart. 
 C. Rivers Wilson, Esq., C.B. 
 Viscount Wolseley of Cairo, 
 
 K.C.B.,G.C.M.G.^ 
 Viscountess Wolseley 
 Mr. Watkin Wynn Williams 
 Mr. and Mrs. Brydges 
 
 Williams 
 Mr. H. Wemyss 
 Sir B. Walker 
 Col. Sir Chas. Wilson 
 General Sir Evelyn Wood 
 
 AND Staff 
 Lady Wood and Family 
 Sir John Willoughby 
 Col. Whit£ 
 Canon Wade 
 
 Lord and Lady Westeury 
 Sir Joseph & Lady Whitworth 
 Sir Ofpley Wakeman 
 Mr. Owen Williams 
 Sir Baldwin Walker 
 Comte de Wrangel 
 Col. Stuart Wortley 
 Earl of Yarborough 
 Lady Fox Young 
 Sir Allen Young 
 Zebehr Pasha 
 Sir Ed. Zohrab Pasha 
 
 October, 1888. 
 
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 OOOKl'S 
 
 EXCURSIONS, TOUES, 
 
 AND 
 
 GENERAL TRAVELLING ARRANGEMENTS. 
 
 THOMAS COOK AND SON, 
 
 Pioneers, Inaugurators, and Promoters of the principal Bjetema of Tours (established 
 1841) in &reat Britain and Ireland, and on the Continent of Europe, are now giving 
 increased attention to Ordinary Travelling Arrangements, vrith a view to rendering 
 them as easy, practicable, and economical as circumstances will allow. During 47 
 years more than dine millioi^s of Travellers have visited near and distant places 
 under their arrangements ; and their system of Tickets now provides for visiting the 
 chief points of interest in the Four Quarters of the Globe. 
 
 CoqKs Travelling Tickets are availabU Ijy any train or other conveyance any day, and, do not 
 
 coTnpel travelling in parties. 
 
 Cook's Interpreters in uniform are stationed at the railway stations in 
 
 Paris, Turin, G-eneva, Nice, Naples, Venice, Briodisi, Kome, and other chief 
 
 places, and render assistance to holders of Cook's Travelling Coupons free of charge. 
 
 Coupes, Salons, Sleeping Car Berths, &c., are secured by Thomas 
 
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 the Bailway and Sleeping Car Company. 
 
 Cook's West of Bngland Tours combine all points of interest. Hotel 
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 Snglish Lakes and Isle of Man. — New arrangements have been made 
 for Tours to all parts of interest in the English Lake District and the Isle of Man. 
 
 Cook's Scotch Tours cover all points of Tourist interest in Scotland : 
 Oban, Stafia, lona. Isle of Skye, Caledonian Canal, Kyles of Bute, the Trossachs, 
 the Highlands, the Lake District, Edinburgh, &c. 
 
 Cook's Irish Tours. — Thomas Cook & Son issue Tourist Tickets to 
 
 and through all parts of Ireland, including the Giant's Causeway, Belfast, Dublin, 
 Galway, Loch Erne, the Lakes of Killarney, &c. They can be used in connection 
 with Tickets from London, or any town on the Midland Railway. 
 
 Cook's Tickets to Paris are available by the Shortest and Cheapest 
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 Cook's Tours to Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine are arranged 
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 Cook's Swiss Tickets are available by every Boute, and cover every part 
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 Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.— Thomas Cook & Son issue 
 
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 Algerian Tours.— Thomas Cook & Son issue Tickets by any route 
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 issue Tickets by any line of Steamers, to any port touched by the Austrian 
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 The Steam Navigation of the NUe.— Thomas Cook & Son 
 are the sole owners of the NEW FIRST-CLASS TOURIST STEAMERiS on 
 
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 the NILE, and Tickets can be had, and bertha secured, at any of Thomas 
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 Tours to Palestine are rendered easy, safe, and economical by the sape- 
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 ToTiTS To and Through America.— Thos. Cook & Son have their 
 
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 at best rates. The chief American Office of Teos. Cook & Son is 261-262, 
 Broadway, New York, 
 
 Shipping and Emigration. — A special department has been established 
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 all Lines of Steamers at any of the Offices of Thos. Cook & Son. 
 
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 East, allowing breaks of journey at all points of interest. 
 
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 weekly during the season for Switzerland, 0ermany, Italy, and various parts of the 
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 Cook's Hotel Coupons, available at nearly eight hundred first-class hotels 
 in various parts of the world, can be had by travellers purchasing Cook's 
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 Thomas Cook & Son's General Travelling Arrangements are 
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 it is used on the other, and it contains all the information the traveller needs. 
 
 Policies of Insurance against accidents of all kinds, by land and sea, are 
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 Bailway, and Q-eneral Accident Assurance Company, Limited." 
 
 Programmes can be had gratuitously, on application at the Offices of 
 Thomas Cook & Son, or by post, in return for stamps covering postage. 
 
 Cook's Excursionist and Tourist Advertiser is published at short 
 
 intervals during the season, in Europe, America, India, and Australia, price 2d., 
 post free 3d., and contains programmes and lists to the number of nearly one 
 thousand specimen Tours, with fares by every route, Tickets for which are issued 
 by Thomas Cook & Son. 
 
 Guide Books. — The Guide Books published by Thos. Cook & Son are 
 both practical and concise. A List can be had on application. 
 
 Cook's Continental Time Tables and Tourists' Handbook, 
 
 with Eight Sectional Maps, price Is. Published Monthly, 
 
 Cook's Handbook for London.— Full particulars of all places of 
 interest. With Two Maps. Price 6d. ; cloth gilt. Is. 
 
 THOMAS COOK & SON, 
 
 ointed Tni EM. IT. the PHnce of Wales Passenger Agents to the Boya] 
 enna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Pai'is 1878, and Colonial and Indian 
 
 Chief Office-LDDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON. E.C. 
 
 Specially appointed tp B.II.H. the Prince of Wales Passenger Agents to the Boyal British Oom- 
 mission, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1878, and Colonial and Indian 1886. 
 
PROGRAMME OF COOK'S 
 
 INTERNATIONAL TICKETS TO EGYPT, 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 THE NILE 
 
 TO THE 
 
 iFIIiST CA.TAIiACT, 
 
 PHILiE, LUXOR, THEBES, ASSOUAN, &c., &c. 
 
 ALSO PAETICULABS OF AEBANGEMENTS FOE 
 
 STEAMERS AND DAHABEAHS. 
 
 "WITH MAES AND PLANS OP STEAMEBS, 
 
 COOK'S INDIAN TOURS. 
 
 Under Special Authority of the Gaoemment of India and, the Secretary of State for India. 
 
 COOK'S PROGRAMME OF 
 
 INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLINQ TICKETS 
 
 Embraces every point of interest for Tourists and General Travellers in 
 
 INCLDDING SKELETON TOURS AND CAREFULLY-PREPARED ITINERARIES 
 
 Illustrating the chief routes by Railways, Steamers, and other conveyances, 
 with short descriptions of some of the principal places, and a 
 
 &LOSSAEY OF WORDS AND A CONVERSATIONAL VOCABULARY, 
 
 ALSO A 
 
 SPECIALLY ENGRAVED MAP OF INDIA. 
 
 PRICE ONE SHILLING. 
 
 The above Programmes can be obtained at any of the Offices of 
 
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 OFFICES and AGENCIES of THOMAS COOK & SON. 
 
 CHIEF OFFICE:— Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street, London. 
 
 LONDON 
 
 MANCHESTER— 61, Market Street. 
 MVERPOOL— 51, Lord Street. 
 BIRMINGHAM— Stephenson Place, and 36, Hill 
 
 stre»t. 
 WALSALL— Post Office Buildings, The Bridge. 
 WOLVERHAMPTON— 27, Queen Street. 
 LF.EDS— 1. Royal Exchange. 
 BRADFORD—S, Exchange, Market Street. 
 
 BRANCH OFFICES: 
 
 City Office— Corner Lea^enhall and Gracechurch Streets. 
 
 {35, Piccadilly, opposite St. James's Church. 
 82, Oxford Street. 
 Langham Hotel and Hotel Metropole. 
 ,, „ ... Mr. Wm. Whiteley's, Westbonme Grove. 
 Strand OiBce— M5, West Strand. 
 Holborn — First Avenue Hotel. 
 
 Euston Road Office— In Pront of St. Fancras Station. 
 * Crystal Palace— Tourist Court. 
 
 8HBPPIBLD— Change Alley Comer. 
 NOTTINHHA.M— IB, Clumber Street. 
 LEIORSTBR— 7, Gallowtree Gate. 
 DUBLIN— 43. Dame Street. 
 BELFAST- 27, Royal Avonne. 
 EDINBURGH— 9, Princes Street 
 GLASGOW— 162, Argyle Street. 
 OBAN— The Esplanade. 
 
 ■D A ^>^a S 9, itue Scribe. 
 FAKlb- ^ Grand Hotel. 
 NICE 15, Quai Massena. 
 CANNES— 71, Rue d'Antibes. 
 MARSEILLES— 43, Place Noailles. 
 BRUSSELS— 22, Galerie da Roi. 
 COLOGNE— 40, Domhof. 
 VIENNA- 2, Stephansplatz. 
 GENEVA— 90, Rue du Rh6ne, 
 
 CONTINENTAL OFFICES: 
 
 BOMBAY— 13, Rampart Row. 
 CALCUTTA- 11, Old Court House Street. 
 CAIRO — Cook's Pavilion. Shepheard's Hotel, 
 ALEXANDRIA -Place Mohamet Ali. 
 JAb'F A—Cook's Office, Hardegg's Hotel. 
 
 LUCERNE— Hotel dn Cygne. 
 MILAV— PiMzza del Duomo. 
 FLORENCE-10, Via Tornabuoni. 
 ROME— lb, Piazza di Spaena. 
 NAPLES— Piazza dei Martiri. 
 BRINDial-Raglioni's Grand Hotel. 
 • VE \" ICE— Hotel Victoria. 
 ALGIERS -Sduare Bresson. 
 MALTA— 308, Strada Eeale, Valetta. 
 
 ORIENTAL OFFICES: 
 
 JERUSALEM— Near Jaffa Gate; 
 BEYHOUT- N^w Hotel d Orient. 
 CONSTANTINOPLE. 170, Grande Rue de Pera. 
 ATHENS— Place de la Constitution, adjoining 
 Hotel d'Angleterre. 
 
 AMERICAN OFFICES: 
 
 New York- 261-262, Broadway. 
 Boston— 332. Washington Street. 
 Chicago— 232, South Clark Street. 
 Jacksonville — 79. West Bay Street. 
 
 * Washington — 513, Pennsylvania Avenue. 
 
 * Philadelphia- 337, Walnut Street. 
 ' St. Louis— 519, Pine Street. 
 
 * Pittsburgh — Corner Fourth Avenue and 
 
 Kmithfleld Street. 
 
 * Cleveland— 214, Bank Street. 
 
 * New Havrn— 702 Chapel Street. 
 
 * MoNTRKAL— 143 and 266, St. James Street. 
 
 * Quebec — 32. St. Louis Street. 
 
 * Toronto — 56, Yonge Street. 
 
 * Hamilton lOnu.)- U, James Street. 
 
 * Niagara Falls— Prospect House. 
 
 * St. John's (N.F.)— 233, Duckworth Street. 
 
 * New LoHDOir (Conn.)— Crocker House Block. 
 
 * Albany (N.Y.j- 645, Broadway, 
 
 * Kingston (Ont.)— Cor. of Johnston & Ontario 
 
 Streets. 
 
 * St. Oathakinb's (Ont.)- 12 & U, St. Paul St. 
 
 * Baltimore— 319, Second Street. 
 
 * Detroit- 84, Woodward Avenue. 
 
 * St. John (N.B.)— 97, Prince William Street. 
 
 * PALATKA(Fla.)— 37, Lemon Street. 
 
 * San Francisco— 624, Market Street. 
 
 * Mextoo Our— la, Oalle de San Francisco, 
 
 No. 12. 
 
 * Springeikld (Muss.)— 241, Main Street. 
 
 * St. AuoDSTrNE(Fla.)— Under the Opera House. 
 
 * Newark (N J.)--810, Broad Street. 
 
 * Winnipeg (Man.)— 47L Main Street. 
 
 * Halifax (N.S.)— 126, Hollis Street. 
 
 AUSTRALASIA: 
 
 MELBOURNE. 
 SYDNEY. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 AUCKLAND. 
 
 All the above Offices {except those marhed thus *) are managed hy the regular 
 salaried representatives of Messrs. Thos. OooTc & Sun. 
 
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 Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria. 482 pp., 8vo, cloth. 
 
 Price ?s. ed. With Pour Maps. A new edition has lately been published. 
 
 Cook's Handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert. With 
 
 Maps. Price 6s. 
 
 Programmes of Personally- Conducted and Independent Pales- 
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 Up the Nile. To the First Cataract. With Maps. Price 6d. 
 
 Baedeker's Palestine and Syria. With 18 Maps, 43 Plans, a Panorama 
 
 of Jerusalem, and 10 Views. 20s. 
 
 Baedeker's Lower Egypt. With 16 Maps, 29 Plans, 7 Views, and 76 
 
 Vignettes. 15s. 
 
 Murray's Holy Land, Syria, Palestine, &c. With Map and Plans. 20s. 
 Murray's Egypt. In Two Parts, with Map and Plans. 15s. 
 Murray's Turkey in Asia. With Maps and Plans. 15s. 
 East of the Jordan. By Da. Selah Mbhkili, Late U.S. Consul in Jerusalem. 
 
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 and Co., New York, and Bentley & Sou, London. 
 
 Gleanings from a Tour in Palestine and the East. By Canon 
 
 Bell. An excellent work. Price 5s. 
 
 Haifa : or Life in Modern Palestine. By Lawbencb Omphani. 
 
 Price 7s. 6d. ' 
 
 Pictures from Bible Lands. 8s. 
 
 The Land of the Pharaohs. 8s. 
 
 Those Holy Fields. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. 8s. 
 
 Palms and Temples. By Jitiian T. Bidduxph Aenoxd. Kecommended 
 
 to Travellers b3' Dahabeahs. 12s. 
 
 Past and Present in the East. By the Rev. Haebt Jones, M.A. 53. 
 " From Pharaoh to Fellah." By C. P. Mobeelet Bell. Price 16s. 
 Tent Work in Palestine. By Claitiie Reigniee Conbee, R.E. 7s. 6d. 
 Heth and Moab. By Claude Reisniee Cosdee, R.E. 7s. 6d. 
 Syrian Stone Lore. A Monumental History of the Holy Land. By R. 
 
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 The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and Jerusalem. 
 
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 Nile Gleanings. By H. Vllliess Sttjakt. Sis. 6d. 
 
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 Through Bible Lands : Notes of Travel in Egypt, The Desert, and 
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 Egypt. By SiANiEY Lane-Poole. Ss. 6d. 
 
 The Cities of Egypt. By Remnald Stuaet Poole. 5s. 
 
 Walks in Cairo. By Majoe Pltjnkett, ll.E. Price Is. 
 
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 Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt. Edited hy Sir Chaeles 
 
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 Social Life in Egypt. By Stanley Lane-Poole. 21s. 
 
 Pathways of Palestine. By Canon Teisteam. Numerous Photographs. 
 
 Over the Holy Land. By Dr. Wxlie. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Scenes from Life in Cairo. By Miss Whatelt. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. By Professor 
 
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