Biblico-critical labours which I prosecuted during my five years' travels. For the purpose of meeting this request I have introduced a Chapter addressed to an Illustrious Patroness. I consider it a great good fortune to have travelled in the East, but to describe my travels there I consider to be a still greater. At least I have experienced this in writing this book, as will be readily detected in its style. I indulged the hope that such a representation, a contribution as it were from the Pilgrim's own heart, would be peculiarly adapted, not only to promote a familiarity, but also a sympathy, with the Holy Land. I shall rejoice greatly if I have succeeded. I have endeavoured to appear as little learned as possible in these pages. When, however, it was indispensable to discuss learned questions, as for instance, in that relating to the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, I have sought to adopt a course which should give umbrage to no reader. Perhaps the omission of a map will be chiefly felt, where I treat of the site of the Holy Sepulchre. I could indeed have supplied one suited to my purposes from among those extant. But I thought that, even for this purpose, as also for the object of the entire compass of the Travels, I might without any prejudice to the sense refer to the many maps of this particular locality which are in almost. every body's hand, and whence it would be easy to gather the details of my pilgrimage, and of my views. As it is possible that many readers might pass by the Epistle which relates especially to my Biblico-critical labours, I take the opportunity here of soliciting for it a kindly regard. A new opinion has recently been started which disputes the claim of Sinai to the celebrity of being "God's mountain." I gave a short notice of this at the commencement of this year in the Allgemeine Zeitung. A particular refutation of this view, the strong foundation of which is not upon many points to be disputed, I did not think suitable for incorporation in my Travels. But I shall shortly endeavour to do so elsewhere. I have still only to express the wish that, amid the mighty struggle of ecclesiastical interests, a salutation will be welcome to many from that land of palms, whence the imperishable Word of Peace has resounded to every one that has a heart fitted to be its receptacle. Leipzig, 1846. CONSTANTINE TISCHENDORFF. Voyage from Leghorn to Malta Arrival at Malta - Peculiarities of the Island - The population - The British rulers-The Maltese knights- Voyage to Greece Syra The slave dealer — The storm- Arrival at Alexandria The plague The festival of the circumcision- Cleopatra's Needles and Pompey's Pillar - The catacombs - The past Voyage up the Nile- Arabic sailors - Oriental manners The capsized vessel The banks of the canal and of the Nile- The water of the Nile The sailors' song- Praying on the banks of the Nile. - First view of the Pyramids - Arrival at Cairo- -The suspended Sheikh - The Differences of opinion Career of Mehemet Ali - His government of the country True measure of judgment - The Fellahs- Mehemet Ali's orthodoxy and humanity. The Renegade question - Mehemet Ali's 27 Soleyman Pasha and the daughters of the Saxon apothecary - The excavated ancient Greek church at Alexandria Comparison with the Cathedral at Strasburg-Ascent of the Pyramid of Cheops View - Reflections — The interior of the Pyramid - The Pyramids of Cephren and of Mykerinos - The Lovers' Pyramid- Structure and object of the Pyramids - The recent hieroglyphical in- scription in commemoration of the birthday of Frederick William IV. Terranch The nocturnal ride through the Desert - Castello Cibara — Plains of Natron and Lakes of Natron - The waterless river-The Queber―The Coptic monasteries of former ages- The four monasteries of Macarius- Structure. Appointment - Food - Religious worship Eucharist - The blind prior- The pictures - The library — The old man of 120-The consultations Coptic Christianity Coptic confession of faith. Michael Wandsleb's account of these monas- |