NOTES OF A CLERICAL FURLOUGH, SPENT CHIEFLY IN THE HOLY LAND. WITH A SKETCH OF THE VOYAGE OUT IN THE BY ROBERT BUCHANAN, D.D., AUTHOR OF "THE TEN YEARS' CONFLICT." BLACKIE AND SON, WARWICK SQUARE, E.C., AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH. MDCCCLIX. 203. C. 126. ΤΟ HUGH TENNENT, Esq., OF WELLPARK, IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KINDNESS AS AN EXPRESSION OF PERSONAL ESTEEM AND REGARD, AND IN MEMORY OF THE HAPPY DAYS SPENT TOGETHER IN THE "ST. URSULA." This Volume is Affectionately. Inscribed THE AUTHOR. Sketch Map of the City and Environs of Alexandria, 44 Sketch Map of the Country between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, 271 Sketch Map Lubbân to Shechem and Samaria, 319 Sketch Map of Country around Nazareth, Tabor, and Sea of Galilee, 361 Map of the Holy Land, in pocket at the end. PREFACE. MURRAY'S recently issued and very able Handbook for Syria and Palestine offers hints to travellers in these countries on various points, and, among others, "on the propriety of publishing.” Every one," the writer of that work observes, "must exercise his own good taste and wisdom in that respect; but 'a journal' has a real and absorbing interest, apart from all thought of Albemarle Street or Paternoster Row.” In the matter of publishing, it is to be feared that an author's own taste and wisdom are not always very safe guides. Considering that of many books on the Holy Land there seems, in the present day, to be literally "no end," it may well be supposed it has not been without hesitation and diffidence that the author of the "CLERICAL FURLOUGH" has ventured to add one to the number. If, however, the volume should have no other merit, it has at least that of being substantially "a journal." It is not a compilation got up at home, but a bona fide personal narrative. It simply corrects, arranges, and amplifies what was written from day to day on the spot. What it aims at is to enable the reader to see what the writer saw, and to hear what he heard. He does not pretend |