Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone.  I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those which nature has intended to go in pairs.  At any rate I dislike solitude, and especially travelling solitude, and was, therefore, rather sad at heart as I sat one night at Z—’s hotel, in Jerusalem, thinking over my proposed wanderings for the next few days.  Early on the following morning I intended to start,............