CHAPTER VIII

Syria and the Holy Land

Smyrna

FIELD—villages of scattered houses or tents that look
like sugar-loaves through the glasses.

Smyrna Bay is very deep—Country low hills and
rolling.

Afternoon—officers of gunboat Swatora came aboard.

Ascended Citadel Hill (Mt. Pagus of Scripture). Went
to Caravan Bridge to see the camel-trains come in.

Ephesus

Sept. 6. All hands took train and went to ruins of an-
cient Ephesus, 45 miles hence.

Another of the 7 churches of Asia was here.

Apollo and Diana were born here. Here the god Pan
lurked in the Coressus and the Prion hills; here Bacchus
and Hercules fought against the Amazons; here Hanni-
bal, Scipio, Lysander, Alexander the Great and many an-
other man great in ancient history tarried. Here Homer
was born; here Brutus and Cassius lay in refuge in the
temple, and Anthony and Cleopatra held their gorgeous
revels. Here stood the splendid temple of Diana of
Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Here Paul and John preached; here the Virgin Mary
lived with John, and here both died and were buried.
Here is the tomb of St. Luke the Disciple. Here Mary

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