Excerpt from Talks, Tales and Public Opinion, Vol. 13: April, 1907 Our visit to the Dead Sea with all its natural curiosities and historic interest was one to be remembered. The Dead Sea is feet below the Mediterranean and is the lowest natural Spot on the face of the earth. We bathed in the Dead Sea. It was very pleasant. The water is bright and clear and so strong and buoyant that you cannot sink in it. A bushy tree grows in this valley, having long spiky thorns, and we were told that the Crown of Thorns was made of branches of a tree similar to this. It is the proper thing in travelling through this country to travel under the protection of an Arab Sheikh. We came across a party of Frenchmen who had neglected this precaution, and in consequence were seriously robbed. Our readers will remem ber that when our party was in Africa, crossing the great desert. 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.