When I last made a memorandum, we were at Ephesus.

We are in Syria, now, encamped in the mountains of Lebanon.

The interregnum has been long, both as to time and distance.

We brought not a relic from Ephesus! After gathering up fragments of sculptured marbles and breaking ornaments from the interior work of the Mosques; and after bringing them at a cost of infinite trouble and fatigue, five miles on muleback to the railway depot, a government officer compelled all who had such things to disgorge! He had an order from Constantinople to look out for our party, and see that we carried nothing off.

It was a wise, a just, and a well-deserved rebuke, but it created a sensation.