A Visit to the near East

gives one the charming scenery of the Greek Islands, Asia Minor and Syria. Some ships go alternately by routes (2) and (3). I met a man, indeed, who was trying a fourth way by the Turkish Railway through Asia Minor, and then from Constantinople by the Orient Express, which is practically overland all the way. Cairo, where I had arranged to meet my party, is not only rich in ancient mosques, churches and bazaars, but it has also very fine modern streets and suburbs. Outside the town one sees the pyramids of Gizeh, and the Nile flowing through fields of sugar cane, cotton and maize, everywhere surrounded by limitless desert. Inside the streets one is struck with the brilliant colours