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                        TENT WORK IN PALESTINE.

                 A Record of Discovery and Adventure.

                                  BY
                     CLAUDE REIGNIER CONDER, R.E.,
             OFFICER IN COMMAND OF THE SURVEY EXPEDITION.

    Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

                 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. W. WHYMPER.

                             New Edition.

                            [Illustration]

                                LONDON:
             RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
           Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.

                                 1887.

                       [_All Rights Reserved._]




                         TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

                          THE PRINCE OF WALES

                        This Work is Dedicated,

             WITH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS' GRACIOUS PERMISSION,

                            BY THE AUTHOR.




PREFACE.


The Survey of Western Palestine was commenced under Captain Stewart,
R.E., in January, 1872. Ill-health obliged that officer to return almost
immediately. Lieutenant Conder, R.E., was appointed to the command, and
arrived in Palestine in the summer of the same year. The work meantime
had been conducted under the charge of the late Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt
Drake.

Lieutenant Conder returned to England in October, 1875, having surveyed
4700 square miles.

The remaining 1300 square miles of the Survey were finished by
Lieutenant Kitchener in 1877.

The present volume contains Lieutenant Conder's personal history of his
work, without specially entering on the scientific results. These will
be published with the great map in the form of memoirs, twenty-six in
number, one to every sheet.

Lieutenant Conder's conclusions and proposed identifications are, it
will be understood, his own. The Committee do not, collectively, adopt
the conclusions of any of their officers.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER                                                             PAGE

PREFACE                                                                v

INTRODUCTION                                                          xi

I. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM                                               1

II. SHECHEM AND THE SAMARITANS                                        15

III. THE SURVEY OF SAMARIA                                            41

IV. THE GREAT PLAIN OF ESDRAELON                                      58

V. THE NAZARETH HILLS                                                 71

VI. CARMEL AND ACRE                                                   88

VII. SHARON                                                          103

VIII. DAMASCUS, BAALBEK AND HERMON                                   121

IX. SAMSON'S COUNTRY                                                 139

X. BETHLEHEM AND MAR SABA                                            145

XI. JERUSALEM                                                        160

XII. THE TEMPLE AND CALVARY                                          182

XIII. JERICHO                                                        199

XIV. THE JORDAN VALLEY                                               214

XV. HEBRON AND BEERSHEBA                                             236

XVI. THE LAND OF BENJAMIN