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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 16
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, tls an excellent w a y *<>£€'. •»»••/*»« *U there Sa'SSTSdSJ :iy i n I i n W^Z&tofrf™ w wi'l time' The most interesting thing I have seen in quit Egypt there, planning new excavations! . The night train again to Cairo and a day at Shephean I s Hotel where I had been earlier, and I was ready for the trip to Palestine. I was most fortunate in having a single compartment both nights in Egypt, and no one over me on the way to Jerusalem, my last night journey, I hope! . Cook's mail met me at the station, took me to the hotel, did everything except eat my breakfast for me! and after breakfast, my Palestine guide and I started out for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which kept us busy for most of the morning. Somehow, I wasn't thrilled! T o o many ornate chapels built by warring faiths do not incline one towards reverence. There are five Christian bodies, all claiming representation at most of the sacred spots in and around Jerusalem! They don't always agree, I am told! In the afternoon we drove to Bethlehem, where unluckily, we ran into a big cruise, just arrived, and quite noisy. That would have spoiled the Church of the Nativity for any one! On the way back, we stopped at the Garden Tomb, which many believe to be the real site of Calvary and the Tomb of Our Lord. After that the Mt. of Olives, to me the loveliest place, except Gethsemane, near Jerusalem. The second day was devoted to a drive down to the Dead Sea and Jericho, stopping at the Garden of Gethsemane as we left the city. I was agreeably disappointed in the Dead Sea, it is a beautiful sheet of water. W e had luncheon at Jericho where there is not much of interest remaining, and drove back to Jerusalem to find the rain which we had left in the morning, had stopped, but the air was bitterly cold, a sharp contrast to Jericho and the Sea where it' had been warm and balmy. The third day we devoted to Jerusalem, visiting the great Mosque (Dome of the Rock) on Mt. Moriah, via Dolorosa (of course, the real street lies about thirty feet below the present level, and one goes down to the chapels marking all the sites!) In the afternoon, Mt. Zion near the hotel took some t i m e King David s Tomb, which no non-Moslem may enter, the Citadel, David's Wall and Gate, and one or two other spots occupied a couple of hours Then I went to Cook's to arrange about the remainder of my tour, and set mnn^v changed. When I left the office, I was carrying five kinds of money—Earotian Palestinian, Syrian, British, and Italian! Can you beat it? I'm from now on a firm believer in an international medium of exchange! The rest of my tour in Palestine and Syria must go until another W * r as we land tomorrow at Naples and I must finish paeking. (I could do it ^ •with my eyes shut and one hand tied behind me!") The eleven o'clock h £ ? ? has just appeared and it is cold enough to make a hot drink very accent/wft y cc I hope Italy will be warmer! * eptaDle! ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS Arthur R. Curry has a poem "la the Library" in the Nczvs Notes of the Texas Library Association, January, 1932. [6]
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