THE DESERT OF SINAI: 3537. NOTES OF A SPRING-JOURNEY FROM CAIRO TO BEERSHEBA. BY HORATIUS BONAR, D.D., KELSO. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, No. 530 BROADWAY. 1857. gift 4-5-1932 PREFACE. THIS volume is really what it professes to be,—“ Notes of a journey." A The notes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, and extended afterwards. little practice made it easy to write in that position; at least when the animal was not moving at more than its common rate of two miles and a quarter an hour. It was much more satisfactory to record every event as it occurred, and every scene as it came before the eye. In no case was memory alone trusted to; but all was noted down, however briefly, at the moment. After-impressions, even of the most accurate and honest memory, are not always to be relied on especially as to the order of events and scenes. The two or three brief discussions, interjected in the course of the narrative, are hardly exceptions to this; inasmuch as the materials out of which they grew were |