Excerpt from Dog Fennel in the OrientIt was my good fortune to be a passenger on the steamer Moltke when it sailed from New York City, on February 5, 1903, bound for the Orient and having in its itinerary all the points of greatest interest, on and near to, the coasts each side of the Mediterranean, as far North as the Black Sea, and as far South as Luxor, Assouan Karnak and Thebes on the Nile, and doing, more thoroughly than any other part, perhaps, Palestine, called by literary license, the Holy Land, though were I a strict constructionist as a historian I would suggest that such calling, in these days, whatever may be true of the past, is a misnomer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.