. Eight journeys abroad. worked so hard that I hardly had sense enough to getto bed. This is our last day here as to-morrow we take thetrain at seven oclock for Joppa, We have just had tea in thedrawing room, when the German General I wrote you aboutas being on the Auguste Victoria with a number of officers ofthe Garde du Corps, Berlin, came in. I had not been intro-duced before and I was glad to meet him—of course askedhim first if he knew Gen. von Camerer, and of course he did,and then I asked about the Adelmanns and he said, Youknow Heinrich.^—and he was so surprised and he knows all our fr
. Eight journeys abroad. worked so hard that I hardly had sense enough to getto bed. This is our last day here as to-morrow we take thetrain at seven oclock for Joppa, We have just had tea in thedrawing room, when the German General I wrote you aboutas being on the Auguste Victoria with a number of officers ofthe Garde du Corps, Berlin, came in. I had not been intro-duced before and I was glad to meet him—of course askedhim first if he knew Gen. von Camerer, and of course he did,and then I asked about the Adelmanns and he said, Youknow Heinrich.^—and he was so surprised and he knows all our friends and the von Wellwarths, that Clifford and I visited 480 CONSTANTINOPLE, THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT near Hohenstadt, are his relations. I hope now we may meetCount Linar and Baron Wangenheim, who are his knows Baron von Briisselie at Schaubeck, also. This is the second week of hard work. As we left theship Tuesday morning we formed a party of eight sowe could have a guide to ourselves, and we just filled. ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM two carriages. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Ervin and Miss Smith, Mrs. Stryker and Miss Stevenson, beside Clifford and myself. The water was very smooth at Joppa, a very unusual thing, and we made the landing without the least trouble. We had such fun at Beyrout where it was quite rough, when Mr. Fowler, who is a very big man, and myself were lifted bodily by the boatmen31 481 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD and put into the boat. Joppa was as filthy as every othercity under Turkish dominion, but interesting and we weresurprised with a good American toot from the Baldwinlocomotive. We crossed the Plain of Sharon and were inter-ested in the mud villages, where each house had an enclosingwall of the same material and the roofs were of turf so theeffect was as if the town had grown and not been made. Whilethese must be very uncomfortable they are most picturesque;soon after we began to climb the hills of Judea and four hoursbrought us to Jerusalem. Our
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