NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY

THROUGH

SYRIA AND PALESTINE

IN 1851 AND 1852

BY

C. W. M. VAN DE VELDE

LATE LIEUTENANT DUTCH R.N., CHEVALIER OF THE

LEGION OF HONOUR.

TRANSLATED UNDER THE AUTHOR'S SUPERINTENDENCE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal."-2 Con. iv. 18.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS,

EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

M.DCCC.LIV.