are shown the Chapel of the Burning Bush. This chapel contains an altar, on which is a gilt plate, said to be on the site of the burning bush seen by Moses when he was called to his special work as leader of the Israelites. The library is also well worth an inspection, containing as it does some very valuable volumes.

Eleventh Day.-Ascend Mount Sinai, passing the Fountain of Moses, the Chapel of Santa Maria, the Needle's Eye (a small arch at which pilgrims formerly paid toll), the Chapels of Elijah and Elisha. In the Chapel of Elijah is shown the cave where the prophet hid from Jezebel. On the top of Jebel Moosa, which is 7000 feet above the sea level, there is a modern Turkish mosque. From the top of this mountain can be seen in fine weather the promontory at the south of the Peninsula, the Gulf of Akabar, and the Red Sea. Proceed to Ras Sufsafeh, which tradition says is the point from which the Commandments were given. From this point a very fine view is obtained of the Plain of El Rahah, where the Israelites encamped.

Twelfth Day.-Journey along the Wady Schekh, where the scenery is very fine.

Thirteenth Day.-Start at 7 a.m., getting through Wady Schekh, and enter a very rugged, narrow pass, the Wady Slaf, encamping at the end of it about 5 p.m.

Fourteenth Day.-Breakfast at 5 a.m., and start immediately for Serabid-el-Khadem. On the way to the camp, which is reached about 6.30, pass some old Egyptian mines.

Fifteenth Day.-Start at 8 a.m., and, riding for two hours, reach the foot of the Et Tih range of mountains, which are crossed on foot in about two

hours.

Fossil shells are to be found in abundance on these hills.

Sixteenth Day.-To be spent in the Wady Boutehgenah.

Seventeenth Day.--Breakfast at 6 a.m., and start at 7.30 a.m. along the Wady Sheik, which is the largest wady in the desert. The hills are nearly all limestone, and therefore rather trying to the eyes.

Eighteenth Day.--Breakfast at 6 a.m., and start at 7 a.m. for Nakhl, crossing the Wady Sih, in which the Israelites wandered during the forty years assigned to them. Nakhl is a fort held by the Turks, and is used as the commissariat station for the Mecca pilgrims; but its general appearance will produce no very great impression of its use either as a fort or anything else.

Nineteenth Day.-Breakfast at 6.30 and start about 8 a.m.; and after passing through very wild and grand scenery, reach Wady Grayah about 5 p.m., and camp for the night.

Twentieth Day.-A day of rest. Twenty-first Day.-Breakfast at 6 and start at 7.30 a.m., and encamp for the night at Wady Mastaba.

Twenty-second Day.--Breakfast at 6.30 and start at 8 a.m.; pass through Wady Sasa, and about 10.30 enter Wady Muweileh.

Twenty-third Day.-Breakfast at 6.30 and start at 7.45 a.m., and encamp for the night in Wady Ghurm, which is reached after a very interesting ride through pleasant scenery and partially cultivated land.

Twenty-fourth Day.-Breakfast at 6.30 and start at 7.45 a.m. In the afternoon Wady Ghuzzeh is reached. Encamp in the Wady Hascif.

Twenty-fifth Day. -Breakfast at 6 a.m., and start for Gaza or

Ghuzzeh, which is approached from the south through orchards surrounded by prickly pear, and encamp outside the town. Telegrams and letters may be sent from here to England, &c.

Twenty-sixth Day.-Breakfast at 6.30, and then enter Gaza. Amongst the interesting places to be seen are the Mosque of Jami el Kebir, the Greek Church, the reputed site of the Gates borne away by Samson, and other places connected with the history of Samson.

Twenty-seventh Day.-A day

of rest.

Twenty-eighth Day.-Breakfast at 5.30, and start about 6.30 a.m. for Beit Jebrin, encamping for the night at Zeiteh.

Twenty-ninth Day.-Start about 7 a.m., Beit Jebrin being reached about 8.30. Beit Jebrin, which is said to be the ancient Gath, contains some very fine ruins. Leaving Beit Jebrin about 12 noon, Hebron is reached about 7 p.m.

Thirtieth Day.-Visit the exterior of the mosque, which is supposed to be built on the site of the cave of Machpelah and the sarcophagi of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Next visit Abraham's oak, thirty-two feet in circumference at its base. After about half an hour's walk the junction of the Bethlehem road is reached, and here the camels are waiting, and proceeding on the journey Solomon's Pools are reached about 5 p.m. These Pools, as will be remembered by the Biblical student, are used for supplying Jerusalem with water. Thirty-first Day.-Spend the day in Bethlehem, visiting the Greek Church and the supposed places of interest connected with the birth of our Lord. Proceed via Mar-Saba to the Kedron Valley, and encamp for the night.

Thirty-second Day. Start about 7 o'clock, and about 11 reach the Dead Sea. After lunch leave for the Jordan, which is one-and-a-half hour's journey from the Dead Sea. Proceed to Jericho, and encamp for the night.

Thirty-third Day.-Start about 9 a.m., passing Elisha's Fountain and Bethany, arriving at Jerusalem towards evening.

The foregoing Daily Itinerary has been compiled by Mr F. H. Cook, and shows the exact time he occupied in the Desert Tour in the spring of 1880, and provides for resting in camp every Sunday. Allowing for the rest in the heat of the day for lunch, the average time occupied in travelling is about six to seven hours per day.

FARES FOR INDEPENDENT TOURS
TO PALESTINE,
Available for one or more persons
at any time during the season.

The following Itineraries are shown as examples of what may be accomplished under Cook's arrangements for independent travel. Tickets can be supplied by any route and for any number of persons. Fares for Special Itineraries or parties of a larger number than eight will be furnished upon application.

London, Dover, Calais, Paris, Turin, Bologna, Brindisi, Austrian Lloyd's steamer, Corfu, Alexandria, Cairo, Ismailia, Port Said, Jaffa, month's tour in Palestine, Beyrout, Austrian Lloyd's steamer, Jaffa, Alexandria, Trieste, Venice, Milan, Turin, Paris, Calais, London, or vice versa. First class: one person, £130; two, £230; four, £400; six, £570; eight, £740. Second class railway and saloon steamer,

ROUTE 218.

CAIRO TO ISMAILIA, PORT SAID, AND JAFFA,

HE route is by railway from Cairo via Kalioob and Zagazig to Ismailia, thence by steamer on the Suez Canal to Port Said. Trains leave Cairo every morning from Ismailia. An Egyptian steamer leaves the latter place every morning for Port Said, and the Canal Company's steamer every alternate morning. Time from Cairo to Ismailia, seven hours; Ismailia to Port Said, seven hours. Fare, first class, Cairo to Port Said, about £2, 6s., or 11.50 dols.

ZAGAZIG is a place of some-consequence, the vicinity producing cotton and maize. There are thirty steam pressing and cleaning cotton mills. Its population is 40,000. From this place the railway follows for some distance the course of the Sweet Water Canal.

ISMAILIA, though founded in 1862, has a population of over 5,000. It stands on the shore of Lake Timsah. The lake is five miles long, and the Suez Canal skirts its eastern shore. There is a tolerable hotel at Ismailia.

Steamers leave Port Said for Jaffa several times a week. Particulars of the sailings may be had at Cairo or Alexandria.

Going on board the steamer for Port Said, and leaving Lake Timsah, we soon reach the heights of El-Guisr, the highest point on the Isthmus of Suez.

"The cutting of El-Guisr is nine miles in length (from Lake Timsah to Ballah). In some parts, especially near El-Guisr, the

El Fendane is at the head of a number of shallow lagoons, stretching down to the Mediterranean. The first of these is called Lake Ballah.

Gunterah, or Kantarah, is on the great Syrian route to Egypt. It stands on the ridge of sand hills separating Lake Menzaleh from the interior lagoons. The desert approaches very near to this town. Ruins in every direction tell of the ancient importance of the place. It was a frontier city of Egypt on entering the field of Zoan. Its name was Mésés, and it was celebrated as the birthplace of Orus, the oldest Egyptian deity, typical, like the Greek Apollo, of the Sun. This place must have been one of the most ancient in the world. It was the spot at which the Asian tribes must have entered to people Egypt. Ten miles west of Kantarah are some mounds marking the site of Daphne, the Taphannes of the Bible.

Lake Menzaleh is next crossed. Water-fowls abound, geese, ducks, herons, pelicans, and flamingoes.

Crossing the Pelusiac branch of the Nile at Kil, and passing Rasel-Ech (on an island), the islands of Termes and Toonah, with a few ruins to the left, and in sight of the remains of ancient Pelusium to the right, a low bank of yellow sand is crossed, and the terminus of the Canal reached in the harbour of PORT SAID.