MARK TWAIN

After providing so many sheiks and guides, never saw
a Bedouin.

Sept. 26. Got up at 3 A.M. and traveled 2j4 hours over
mountains and got to the enclosure of olive trees in a
plain where the angels announced the birth of the Saviour
to the shepherds. Then % hour to Bethlehem and to the
Milk Grotto. Then to the Convent of the Nativity built
by St. Helena in 326.

Place where 20,000 children beheaded by Herod were
buried.

Lunched there and left — 2 hours to Jerusalem. On the
way visited Rachel's tomb (authentic).

In Jerusalem breakfasted at noon at the Mediterranean
Hotel and then went to the Hill of Offense where Solomon
built a temple for his Egyptian wife. Tree there that
Judas Iscariot hanged himself from.

Went to the Jews' wailing-place along the old wall of
Solomon's Temple — Cyclopean masonry — many Pharisees
with a curl forward of the ear.

Another part of the Temple Wall where Dr. Robinson
discovered the spring of the arch which Solomon built to
connect Zion Hill with the temple. The prophecy that 2
stones should not remain I upon the other not strictly
fulfilled.

The ravens could hardly make their own living, let
alone board Elijah.

Jerusalem, cont.

Sept. 27. Left camp outside the city walls between the
Damascus and Jaffa gates (in head of Hinnom valley
which carried the waters of Gihon) and passed Jaffa Gate
on west of the city and crossed Hinnom valley, between
upper and lower Gihon pools where an aqueduct built by
Solomon crosses. Then went south and climbed the Hill
of Evil Council and stood on the house of Caiaphas where

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