Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover Art]

[Frontispiece: S. G. Bayne]

A FANTASY OF

MEDITERRANEAN TRAVEL

BY

S. G. BAYNE

AUTHOR OF

"QUICKSTEPS THROUGH SCANDINAVIA" "ON AN IRISH JAUNTING-CAR" ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

MCMIX

Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved_.

Published October, 1909.

PLACES VISITED ON THIS CRUISE

AND DESCRIBED

WITH PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

MADEIRA SPAIN CADIZ SEVILLE ALHAMBRA ALGIERS MALTA GREECE TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE ASIA MINOR SMYRNA HOLY LAND JERUSALEM RIVER JORDAN JERICHO DEAD SEA EGYPT CAIRO THE NILE MESSINA NAPLES POMPEII ROME VILLEFRANCHE NICE MONTE CARLO ENGLAND

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

FUNCHAL, THE LONG BRANCH OF MADEIRA; NICE BALMY PLACE FOR A REST AFTER A PANIC. STEAMER LEAVES LONDON TWICE A WEEK. HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS BY CABLE

THE PARTHENON, ATHENS, GREECE--THE MOST IMPRESSIVE RUIN IN EXISTENCE

THE HISTORICAL PART OF ATHENS, GREECE--PANORAMA OF THE GREAT RUINED GROUPS

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE GOLDEN HORN CROSSED BY THE GALATA BRIDGE, WITH STAMBOUL IN THE FOREGROUND. THE YOUNG TURKS PRESENTED THIS AS THE FIRST SNAP OF THEIR OFFICIAL CAMERA. LATER THEY "DEDICATED" THE BRIDGE BY HANGING THE FIRST BATCH OF MURDERERS ON IT

THESE SANDOWS OF STAMBOUL ARE CONSIDERED A HUSKY TRIO, EVEN IN THIS CITY OF STRONG MEN. IF THESE KEGS ARE FILLED WITH SOUR MASH THEY'RE A MENACE TO THE WHISKEY TRUST AND OUGHT TO BE TAXED ACCORDINGLY

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by S. G. Bayne
• 2: Jerusalemthe sphinx the grand old girl of all sculpture
• 3: I shall adopt the abbreviated name of The Cork
• 4: With a Paquin wrap and a Virot hat
• 5: The beet sugar man from Colorado also had his place
• 6: The motorer sports his car duster on all possible occasions
• 7: And the travelers then made their way to the chief steward
• 8: Now we reach the post card mania
• 9: MADEIRAWe lit right out for Madeira
• 10: Madeira is some three hundred miles from Africa
• 11: And having in mind the fame of Binns of the Republic
• 12: Seville has one of the largest
• 13: An all day's ride to Granada was before us
• 14: I transmitted Mark Twain's name of Billfinger to our man
• 15: Algeria is now a French colony
• 16: Gassigaloopi was a tower of strength in himself
• 17: The original birth place of the Maltese cat
• 18: GREECEWe left Malta and had Greece before us
• 19: Next comes the great Parthenon
• 20: And then and there changed it to Muley Molech
• 21: They were taken to Venice by Dandolo
• 22: Flea bitten dog for each inhabitant
• 23: With Bombay ghee and young garlic
• 24: The rich ones have immense turbans
• 25: Through the Dardanelles and on to Smyrna
• 26: THE HOLY LANDJAFFAOur next stopping place was Jaffa
• 27: And now the train stops at Jerusalem
• 28: And permits the barefaced robbery and oppression
• 29: Illustration THE WAILING PLACE
• 30: This proposal Lady Coutts declined
• 31: And the larger ones foolish virgins
• 32: This did not satisfy us and we went for Cocash
• 33: He commanded the Condor at the siege of this city
• 34: Cairo has every amusement of the European capital
• 35: It had been preserved with bitumen
• 36: The scarab is an Egyptian beetle of varying size
• 37: Gooley told us what King Bubastis said
• 38: And addressed his audience thus Laydies en genteelmen
• 39: And with Gooley Can leading we started for Karnak
• 40: Ram was the most celebrated of the Pharaohs
• 41: Bub met her at the stage door after the performance
• 42: Gooley gave me a few tabloid truths regarding Setee I
• 43: Afterward I caught Gooley on his dates
• 44: We ran into a flight of Nile freight boats
• 45: And have made a tentative menu of them
• 46: Eet is de private entrance to Hunter Pasha's palace
• 47: Passing through the Suez Canal
• 48: MEHEMET ALI WAS WARY Mehemet Ali
• 49: Ismail gave a great fete to celebrate its opening
• 50: De Lesseps ventured on another canal project
• 51: President of the bakshish trust tipping company
• 52: Illustration THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE
• 53: I kept on stropping diligently
• 54: Next day we drove through Nice and on to Monte Carlo
• 55: Where the Cork lay awaiting us