efiore's visit, affixed the Visa
to his passport in most flattering terms. As these were very peculiar,
I append a translation.

"We declare that to-day arrived at Jerusalem our friend
the English gentleman, Mr Montefiore. He has visited all
the holy places, and all the grandees of the town, as
well as several of lesser note, who have been highly
gratified by making his acquaintance, he being a person
of the greatest merit, and unequalled among the nation
for propriety and amiability of manners; and having
ourselves experienced the highest pleasure in his
society we have written this to testify our sense of his
politeness.

"Given in the last day of Rubic-el-owal, 1243.

"El Hha'jj Hafiz Mohhammad Rashid
Sathashour (or Selhhoor) Hassa,
_Governor of Jerusalem_."

"No city in the world," Mr Montefiore observes in his diary, "can have
a finer situation than this; nor is there a better climate;" and he
concludes his record of his day's proceedings by wishing "Many happy
returns of the day to his dear Judith."

The 20th of October being his wife's birthday, which was generally
signalised, whether at home or abroad, by the distribution of numerous
gifts to the poor and to the charitable institutions, it was, as a
matter of course, thus observed in the Holy City, and in an unusually
liberal spirit.

_Sunday, October 21st._--Their short sojourn in Jerusalem was now
concluded. Mr Montefiore rose at half-past two in the morning, and
joined a number of persons who had been sitting up all night in the
house of his host praying for his safe return, and for the welfare of
all friends and lovers of Zion. Both the Rev. Moses Soozin and the
Rev. Rabbi Mendel, accompanied by more than one hundred of the
principal inhabitants, came to see them off. At 7.38 they took leave
of their kind host and hostess, who had most liberally housed and fed
them without asking for the smallest remuneration, and had loaded them
with cakes, wine, &c., for their journey. After a charming ride of
over five hours between the mountains they came to the first well at
the commencement of the plains, and arrived at the Greek convent of
Ramlah. The road was very stony, rough, and steep, but no precipices;
on the sides of the mountains were olives and fruit trees; the valleys
well cultivated, the plain sandy.

They saw nothing of Aboo-Goosh, who was then the terror of the land,
but they went rather in fear of him.

_Tuesday,