They intended making several excursions by land, and the first of these was to be a trip to the banks of the Jordan and to the Dead Sea.
I ardently wished to visit these places, and therefore begged the gentlemen, through Father Paul, to permit my accompanying them on their arduous journey.

The gentlemen were of opinion that their proposed tour would be too fatiguing for one of my sex, and seemed disinclined to accede to my request.

But then Count Wratislaw took my part, and said that he had watched me during our ride from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, and had noticed that I wanted neither courage, skill, nor endurance, so that they might safely take me with them.

Father Paul immediately came to me with the joyful intelligence that I was to go, and that I had nothing to do but to provide myself with a horse.

He particularly mentioned how kindly Count Wratislaw, to whom I still feel obliged, had interested himself in my behalf.
The journey to the Jordan and the Dead Sea should never be undertaken by a small party.