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Transcribed from the 1864 Chapman and Hall “Tales of All Countries” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org A RIDE ACROSS PALESTINE. 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, an