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LETTERS FROM THE HOLY LAND
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THE START
(FRONTISPIECE)
LETTERS FROM
THE HOLY LAND
BY
ELIZABETH BUTLER
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1906
Published March 1903
Reprinted July 1906
TO MY MOTHER
CHRISTIANA THOMPSON
PREFACE
THESE letters, written to my mother, and published chiefly at herrequest, can lay no claim to literary worth; their only possible valuelies in their being descriptive of impressions received on the spot ofthat Land which stands alone in its character upon the map of the world.But the reader will more easily excuse the shortcomings of my pen than,I hope, he will ever do those of my pencil!
I will make no apologies for the sketches, save to remind the readerthat most of them had to be done in haste. They are necessarilyconsiderably reduced in size in the reproduction, so as to suit them tothe book form.
It was a happy circumstance for me that my husband’s appointment to theCommand at Alexandria should have enabled us to realize this journey. Afour-weeks’ leave just allowed of our accomplishing the whole tour. Thewider round that includes Damascus and Palmyra would, of course,necessitate a much more extended holiday.
The time of year chosen by my husband for our visit was one in which noreligio