Not only here, but throughout the whole of Syria, I missed the delightful minstrels of the air.

The sparrow alone can find sustenance every where, for he lives in towns and villages, wherever man is seen.

A whole flock of these little twittering birds woke me every morning.
I was as yet much less troubled by insects than I had anticipated.
With the exception of the small flies on the plain of Sharon, and of certain little sable jumpers which seem naturalised throughout the whole world, I could not complain of having been annoyed by any creature.
Our common house-flies I saw every where; but they were not more numerous or more troublesome than in Germany.
EXCURSION TO THE RIVER JORDAN AND TO THE DEAD SEA.
To travel with any degree of security in Palestine, Phoenicia, etc., it is necessary to go in large companies, and in some places it even becomes advisable to have an escort.

The stranger should further be provided with cooking utensils, provisions, tents, and servants.

To provide all these things would have been a hopeless task for me; I had therefore resolved to return from Jerusalem as I had come, namely, via Joppa, and so to proceed to Alexandria or Beyrout, when, luckily for me, the gentlemen whom I have already mentioned arrived at Jerusalem.