. Eight journeys abroad. VIEW OF JOPPA David, from which he saw Bethsheba, the wife of his General,and is now a fortress occupied by Turkish soldiers and has amoat all around. We came up to the Joppa Gate and into this Hoteljust inside the Gate This fortress was Davids palaceand on the top of Mt. Zion. The city seems to consistof hills and valleys and the Temple was on Mt. lunch we started right off to the Holy consists of a group of churches, the Greek Catholic,Roman, Armenian, Coptic and Abyssinian, around the spot where tradition says Christ was buried. At first
. Eight journeys abroad. VIEW OF JOPPA David, from which he saw Bethsheba, the wife of his General,and is now a fortress occupied by Turkish soldiers and has amoat all around. We came up to the Joppa Gate and into this Hoteljust inside the Gate This fortress was Davids palaceand on the top of Mt. Zion. The city seems to consistof hills and valleys and the Temple was on Mt. lunch we started right off to the Holy consists of a group of churches, the Greek Catholic,Roman, Armenian, Coptic and Abyssinian, around the spot where tradition says Christ was buried. At first one is so 482 CONSTANTINOPLE, THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT overwhelmed with the feeling of seeing the actual spot ofChrists sufferings and burial that one longs to join the throngsof pilgrims from every nation who are prostrating themselvesbefore the Stone of Unction and kissing it. To-day wewent to see the Greek Patriarch come in a triumphal proces-sion to the Greek church and it was a magnificent sight. We. THE GATE, JOPPA went in a high gallery w^here there were lots of women of allnationalities. The floor of the church was thronged and thepriests and the patriarch were magnificent with solitairejewels, the latter blessed the people like the Pope. The second morning we drove out to Bethlehem, wherethings are more unchanged than in Jerusalem. In the church ofthe Nativity they show a manger as the one where Christ was 483 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD born. The city walls dating from the eighth century are sopicturesque. The country is very picturesque and lovely withwild flowers, some of which I have bought seeds of and hopeto raise them at Jamestown, and the walled roads climb upand down and wind around the hills. We love this place andfeel sorry to go, as we would like to drive about the outlying
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