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Show KARN .\K TE.\IPLE RUI:\S becan e l1istory seldom, if ever, cl es. Three and one-half clays on this river brouo-ht us Lo \rasta, where we went ashore and proceeded to Cairo by rail, reaching there in the early evening. El even o'clock, the next morning, March lith found us ao·ain on the train en route for Port Said, where a Kheclival ?\Jail Line Steamer awaited us for Palestine. Port Satd has recently become a \'cry important city of more tha;1 50,000 pop ulation, and owes its trength and growth and importance to the opening of the Suez Cana l, beside which we rode for some time. Ot her than as a . hipping place, Port aid has little of interest to the tourist. HoweYer, one cannot help noting the splendid Lio·hthouse, about 175 feet high , that throw its trong electric light twenty miles out upon the blue Mediterranean water . Our Steamer ailed promptly at . ix o'clock, and soon thereafter, we were all nicely cabined, our dinner enjoyed, and we were berthed away for the night with fond hopes and high anticipations of the morrow somewhat disturbing our sweet repose. The voyage was delightful and at snen o'clock the next morning, ::\larch 18th, we sighted the shore line of Pakstine. and the city of Jaffa soon appeared in the distance. being situated on a rocky bluff some hundred or more feet high. The excitement there was on board among the tourists cannot be described. The deep emotions of the soul are beyond clescript ion. and we should reverently thank Cod for the sweet nnuttcrables of life. Our ship was in hi storic and acrecl and mystic \\'aters. The land just ahead was the birthplace of the vvorlcl's Jlope. the resting place of its Cros , the burying place of its Redeemer, and the Page Forty-three |