Excerpt from A Pilgrim in Palestine: Being an Account of Journeys on Foot by the First American, Pilgrim After General Allenby's Recovery of the Holy Land A Few nights before I left America for the Holy Land, she who was Eleanor Robson and who as Mrs. August Belmont has done such womanly valiant work for the Red Cross, gave me a copy of a letter written by a British "Tommy" out in Palestine to his wife in England. I have carried it to Palestine and back and from Jaffa to Jericho and from Beersheba to Dan; and now I make it my preface to this unpremeditated book which has grown out of some casual notes made especially for the "pastor" "Ay, Dearie - When I comes home again and please God that will be soon now Dearie, the Pastor can't say nothin' to me Dearie about the Holy Land, but I'll have sommat to say to he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.