ut it may be almost equally interesting to those who are
planning a similar trip. And those who must stay at home may in these
pages be able to look through another's eyes at the places described.

If the book should in any slight way deepen the pleasant memories of
those who have made the trip, or if it should give pleasure to those who
must picture those scenes only in their imagination, the author will
feel that his effort has not been in vain.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. ON THE OCEAN 1

II. FUNCHAL 10

III. GIBRALTAR 24

IV. GRANADA AND THE ALHAMBRA 38

V. THE CITY OF ALGIERS 60

VI. THE ISLAND OF MALTA 82

VII. ATHENS AND THE ACROPOLIS 97

VIII. CONSTANTINOPLE AND SANTA SOPHIA 128

IX. THE SELAMLIK AND THE TREASURY 154

X. FROM THE BOSPORUS TO PALESTINE 179

XI. JERUSALEM 199

XII. THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE 227

XIII. CAIRO AND THE PYRAMIDS 257

XIV. LUXOR AND KARNAK 296

XV. ON THE NILE 327

XVI. NAPLES AND POMPEII 353

XVII. NICE AND MENTONE 378

CHAPTER I.

ON THE OCEAN.

"Have you decided to go?" inquired my friend. Before us on the table lay
an illustrated booklet containing the prospectus of a cruise to the
Mediterranean. Its contents had been under consideration for some days.

"Yes," I answered, "I will write to-day to secure state room
accommodations for our party. Nevertheless I am not quite sure that it
is wise to take the trip."

"Why?"

"For two reasons. First, are seventy days long enough to make a cruise
of nearly fourteen thousand miles and visit so many places? Second, with
five hundred passengers will there not be a crowd?"

"Well, those doubts never troubled me. Seventy days is all that can be
spared from my business, and much may be seen in that time. As to the
number of passengers, every steamer carries its full complement. At any
rate, you are going, so think no more of your doubts. You will probably
forget that you had any."

So it was that at seven o'clock on the morning of the fifth of February,
when the steamship Moltke left her dock