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Title: A Trip to the Orient
The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise

Author: Robert Urie Jacob

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31609]

Language: English

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[Illustration: WE ENTERED THROUGH THE GATE OF JUSTICE.]

A TRIP TO THE ORIENT

The Story of a
Mediterranean
Cruise

BY
ROBERT URIE JACOB

[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATED

THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PHILADELPHIA

Copyright 1907, by
ROBERT URIE JACOB.

Half-tones made by
The Photo-Chromotype Engraving Co.
Philadelphia, Pa.

PREFACE.

"A Trip to the Orient, the Story of a Mediterranean Cruise," by Robert
Urie Jacob, has been written at the request of fellow-travelers who did
not have time to take notes by the way.

One said, "Do not write a guide book nor a love story, but a simple
narrative that will recall the incidents and delightful experiences of
the tour." Following these suggestions, but with many misgivings, the
author has undertaken and completed the work, assisted in the editing
and proof-reading by Miss Ruth Collins, of the Drexel Institute, and by
Miss Anna C. Kauffman.

An interesting feature of the book is the large number of illustrations
made from artistic photographs, all of which have been kindly
contributed by amateur photographers. It contains nearly two hundred
illustrations of views or incidents in Funchal, Granada, Algiers, Malta,
Athens, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Naples, and Nice,
reproduced from photographs taken by Mr. L. O. Smith, Rev. G. B.
Burnwood, Mr. Charles Louis Sicarde, Mr. Franklin D. Edmunds, Mr.
Roberts LeBoutellier, Mrs. Charles S. Crosman, Miss M. Florence
Pannebaker, Mr. Walter F. Price, Mr. S. L. Schumo, Mr. George C.
Darling, Mr. Howard E. Pepper, Mr. John W. Converse, Mr. C. Edwin Webb,
and Mr. Edwin Alban Bailey.

The story was intended specially for voyagers who have visited the same
places, b