The other parties will take shorter journeys.
For the last two months we have been in a worry about one portion of this Holy Land pilgrimage.

I refer to transportation service.

We knew very well that Palestine was a country which did not do a large passenger business, and every man we came across who knew any thing about it gave us to understand that not half of our party would be able to get dragomen and animals.

At Constantinople every body fell to telegraphing the American Consuls at Alexandria and Beirout to give notice that we wanted dragomen and transportation.

We were desperate--would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos--any thing.