"CONTENTdm"@en . "Travel and tourism on the C.P.R."@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway Company"@en . "Travel"@en . "Tourism"@en . "Ocean liners"@en . "Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection"@en . "Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited"@en . "2017-08-28"@en . "1925"@en . "Pamphlet advertising a Mediterranean cruise. Cover shows Egyptian hieroglyphs."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungtext/items/1.0354866/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " I\ni *jee~)?-7>-y\n\\nEmpress of Scotland\nMAnqwmCmi\nw\nGmadianTaafic\nPRINTED IN CANADA\u00E2\u0080\u00941924 f^\nIhe Mediterranean\nHPHE treasures recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamen have\nturned the eyes of the world upon the Mediterranean, and there\nare few to-day who do not desire to visit Egypt and the ancient cities\nof the great inland sea which bathes the shores of Africa, Asia and\nEurope. What the excavators and historians are revealing is that\nthe Mediterranean races have been linked together by trade and\nintercommunication for six thousand years. While therefore there\nis an individual fascination in the historic centres of Cadiz and\nSeville, of Algiers and Tunis, of Jerusalem, Damascus and Constantinople, of Athens, Naples and Rome, these have grown up in relation\nto each other from time immemorial, so that a cruise such as that of\nthe \"Empress of Scotland,\" which comprehends them all, has a unique\neducational value. America itself is concerned in this ancient history,\nfor Christopher Columbus was delayed in his voyage of discovery\nby the distraction of the Spanish Court during the struggle to drive\nthe Moors out of Grenada back .to North Africa.\nThe Phoenicians, first rulers of the seas and the great trading\nnation of the ancient times, planted a colony at the mouth of the\nQuadalquivir nearly five thousand years ago, and from this rich\nregion of Spain came the Tarshish ships bearing metals for Solomon's\ntemple. These hardy sea-rovers, their frail vessels propelled by\noarsmen, the slaves captured in war, skirted the land out through\nthe gates of Hercules, up the west coast of Europe, penetrating as\nfar as the southern coast of Britain. Here the remains of their long\nabandoned tin mines can still be seen. It is interesting to realize that on\nher trip from Alexandria to Southampton the \"Empress of Scotland\"\nwill follow the route first followed by them.\nClimate and circumstances have fortunately preserved many of\nthe ruins and authentic traces of the ancient civilizations, and the\nnewer growths have also their own picturesque romance .and charm.\nEvery moment of this Mediterranean cruise will therefore be charged\nwith interest.\nm\nPage Two\nwSteOH M-V\nThe Empress of Scotland\nEnterprising Lace Merchants\nSledges at Funchal\nPage Three t\nMadeira \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Lishon\nX^\"NOWN to the Romans as the Purple Islands on account of a\nlocal dye, MADEIRA was colonized by the Portuguese early in\nthe fifteenth century. Christopher Columbus married the daughter*\nof a sea-captain of Madeira and thus became interested in the adventure which discovered America to Europe. Funchal, the capital\nand port of call, gleams like a jewel in its setting of sea-cliffs and\nlofty mountains. Gaily coloured houses, lovely gardens, brilliant\ncostumes natural to a sunny climate, give a pleasant welcome to\nthose who step ashore after seven days at sea. In the evening the\nVigia gardens, lit by countless coloured lanterns, tempt the visitor\nwith music and the attractions of a casino. There will be a trip\nup the inclined railway to Terreiro de Lucta, to a point commanding\na magnificent panorama, 3,300 feet above the sea. Descent can be\nmade by railway or by toboggan.\nLISBON\u00E2\u0080\u0094the name itself is a description of the site\u00E2\u0080\u0094was\nfounded by the Phoenicians, who called it \"alis ubbo\" or friendly\nharbour. The friendly harbour it has remained to all the nations\nof the world. Here the Roman triremes took shelter, here the\nMoorish galley and the Spanish galleon rode at anchor, here the\nships of the crusaders were provisioned before setting out for the\nHoly Land. Lisbon saw the great Armada in all its glory, and the\nbattleships of the last war.\nTerraces of white and tinted buildings, gaily tiled and set amid\nthe vivid foliage of semi-tropical gardens, rise behind the twelve\nmiles of waterfront where Lisbon sits enthroned at the mouth of\nthe Tagus. Modern Lisbon, to judge by our new world standards,\nhas a history of many years behind it. The Se or Cathedral was\nfounded in n50 A.D. It has a sumptuous Gothic portal, and the\nMonastery adjoining the church of Santa Maria or Jeronymosis is\nenriched with lovely cloisters of the Renaissance type of architecture\nknown as the Manueline and limited to Portugal and the west of\nSpain. The church itself, adorned with carved stone columns,\nfan vaulting and altars inlaid with precious metals, contains the\ntombs of Vasco de Gama, the explorer, and Camoens, the epic\npoet. The Castello de Sao Jorge, in the same old part of the city,\nis a Moorish citadel, now used as a fort and barracks.\nr-\nlJi$\u00C2\u00A3fi&*&C\n&\nr\n'\u00C2\u00A34k*\"\u00C2\u00B1\nPage Four *C_'*ki_a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0It'll J&Lliil \u00E2\u0080\u0094trtl1 .rfS^l lii-'*\nA Square, Funchal\nLisbon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Place Dom Pedro IV\n{Ewing Calloway)\nPage Five \u00C2\u00A3\nPage Six\n{\"\"'ADIZ, gleaming white on an azure sea, and guarding with heavy\nramparts the delta of the Quadalquivir from the head of a long\nand narrow peninsula, dates back to the early days of the Phoenicians,\nto whom it was known a thousand years before Christ as Gadeira or\nGades. About 500 B.C. it became a Roman outpost on the Atlantic,\nfamous for its luxurious life, its wines and its dancing girls. As\na city of Spain it grew in wealth and importance after the discovery\nof America and the Indies. While the public buildings lack the rich\nand ornate magnificence of the cities of the interior, the terraced\nhouses, with view towers and balconies, the charm and picturesque-\nness of the people, the clean, busy streets, make this visit to Cadiz a\ndelightful introduction to old Spain. The two cathedrals, the Church\nof Los Capuchinos, where Murillo fell to his death while painting his\npicture of the Betrothal of St. Catherine, the Academy of Fine Arts,\nand the view from the signal tower are points of particular interest.\nUnfailing entertainment and the opportunity of studying the types\nof humanity on the Spanish Coast are found in the. promenades and\npublic gardens, the Muralla del Mar, the Alameda, the Parque\nGenoves and the Botanical Gardens.\nThe railway trip to SEVILLE passes through the fertile plains\nwhich even in Roman times were known as the garden of Europe.\nSeville, an inland port of ancient renown and still prosperous traffic,\ncontains in the Alcazar, in the rose-red observation tower of the\nGiralda, and in the solitary golden tower, memorials of Moorish\nsplendour dating from the days when this was the capital of Europe.\nThe houses are Moorish still, white with green balconies and central\ncourt and fountains, set in narrow streets or around spacious squares\nfragrant with orange groves. The stately Cathedral incorporates\nboth a Roman temple and a Moorish mosque, seen particularly in the\nCourt of Oranges, with its glorious bronze doors, and in the Giralda.\nThe animated street-life of Seville has often been painted, described and even set to music\u00E2\u0080\u0094as in Rossini's \"Barbiere di Siviglia.\"\nThe townsfolk and the peasants of the surrounding country have\npreserved many of the curious old customs which have died out in\nother parts of Spain.\nFrom Seville there is an optional excursion to Granada (for the\nAlhambra), rejoining the ''Empress\" at Gibraltar.\n*\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Cadiz Cathedral\nThe Alhambra-1\u00E2\u0080\u0094Court of\nthe Lions\n(Ewing Galloway)\nSeville\u00E2\u0080\u0094A Bull Fight\n(Ewing Galloway)\nPage Seven L__1\n\u00C2\u00AB*P\nKSBUme^--'- rK&Kianno\nm&\nPage Eight\nfybmllar- |\nT-TERCULES is said to have torn aside the rocks which separated the\nMediterranean from the Atlantic, and GIBRALTAR was therefore known to the ancients as one of the two Pillars of Hercules,\ntestifying to that feat of strength, Abyla on the African side of the\nstraits being the other. Known to the Greek and Roman mariners\nas Calpe, the present name is formed from the Arabic words\n\"Gebel al Tarick\" (the height or rock of Tarick), since Tarick Ibn\nZeiad, the general of the Caliph Valid at the time of the Conquest of\nSpain by the Moors (711 A.D.) landed at the foot of the rock, upon\nwhich he built a strong fortress. Used immediately as a base of\noperations, the history of Gibraltar is, from this time, a history of the\nMoorish domination of southern Spain, and its fall in 1462 marks the\nbreak-up of the western Caliphate. Henry IV, King of Spain,\nincautiously entrusted the fortress to the care of the Duke of Medina-\nSidonia, who attempted to hold it as his personal property. For\nthirty years sovereign and subject struggled for the great prize,\nvictory in the end resting with the large battalions. Spain held the\nrocky promontory for two centuries, and lost it to-Great Britain in\nthe war of the Spanish Succession. It has remained in British hands\never since. In the war which broke out in 1779 between Great\nBritain and Spain, Gibraltar underwent its famous four-year siege.\nIt was ably and successfully defended by General Elliot. This was\none of the most notable sieges of modern times.\nAs Gibraltar is primarily a fortress and a naval base, every effort,\nin view of war contingencies, is made to prevent any increase in the\npopulation. Sanitary laws modelled on English statutes, but drafted\nwith a very different object in view, are used with some ingenuity\nto reduce the available space for housing. The poor are thus being\npushed across the border to the Spanish town of La Linea de la\nConcepcion, from where they come daily to work in the fortress-city.\nThe permanent residents, of whom about thirty thousand still\nremain, are of a very various origin. Turbaned Arabs in burnous\nmingle in the street with British soldiers and Jewish merchants.\nThe Alameda, a public park, planted with beautiful trees and flowers,\nis much favoured as a promenade. A carriage drive for the passengers of the \"Empress of Scotland\" has been arranged through the\nAlameda to Europa Point, at the extreme end of the peninsula.\n\u00C2\u00BB. M\nwm^jSL\nk\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094^- SA\n/\n/\n1\nI\nGibraltar\n(Publishers Photo Service)\nPage Nine \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmm\ntai\nL\nPage Ten\nMlgiers\nA LGIERS, a city that seems at first sight almost as if carved out of\nan ivory hill, was founded by an Arab prince in 935, but never\nattained much importance until the expulsion of the Moors from Spain\nin 1492, when it became the chief stronghold of the Barbary Corsairs.\nFor over three hundred years these exacted terrible tribute in ships,\nin merchandise, in men and women from their Christian enemies.\nPerhaps the most famous of these Corsairs were the two brothers\nBarbarossa. Cervantes, the author of \"Don Quixote,\" was one of the\ncountless thousands of unfortunates thrown into the pent-house of\nthe Souk-el-Abeed, or slave market of this piratical city. When\nthey were not at war with the Christian Powers the Corsairs preyed\non those who did not contribute to their support. At the beginning\nof the last century every country of commercial importance was\npaying tribute to the rulers of the pirates. As part of this tribute\nwas always in the form of armed ships, naval stores and ammunition,\nthe civilized powers were furnishing the means for their own destruction. In 1815 the Americans, in consequence of a dispute over the\namount to be paid, refused to contribute and sent a naval force under\nDecatur to attack Algiers. In a short time he compelled the Dey to\nsue for peace, and extracted from him a pledge that American traders\nwould be immune. Great Britain did the same in the following year,\nand France captured the city of Algiers in 1829, since which time it\nhas been a French possession. A vivid picture of Algiers in Corsair\ntimes may be found in Rafael Sabatini's romance \"The Sea Hawk.\"\nTo-day the shopping districts of the lower town and the spacious\nresidential suburbs are modern and French. Here are located the\ngovernment buildings, the barracks, the commercial warehouses,\nand the residences of the Governor-General and the other government\nofficials. The old town, higher up the hill, has an oriental aspect.\nIts crowning point is the Kasbah, or Palace of the Deys, about five\nhundred feet above the sea. The French dismantled the fortifications, cut a roadway through the Mosque which was connected with\nthem, and permitted the entire building to fall to ruins. You can still\nsee traces of the treasure vaults and slave dungeons of the Deys.\nThe streets of the native city are narrow, crooked and dirty\nbeyond belief. The houses are strong, prison-like edifices with iron\ngrated slits for windows, looking not on to the street but into the\ncentral quadrangle, which can be entered only by a small and easily\nguarded door.\nJfyiA I v.\u00C2\u00ABSfel*\nmm Page Eleven mmmmmm\nESS\nAt fans 1\nCO beautiful is ATHENS that although Greece has been overrun\n^ by many barbarian conquerors\u00E2\u0080\u0094Goths, Ostro-Goths and Turks\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u0094these have refrained from their usual vandalism, with the result\nthat surprisingly little damage has been done to the Attic temples\nexcept by age\u00E2\u0080\u0094although the Parthenon was almost destroyed by an\nexplosion during the siege of 1687. Dominating Athens is the Acropolis. The western front of this is entered by the gateway of the\nPropylaea, near which is the temple of the Wingless Victory, with an\nexquisitely beautiful frieze. On the north is the Erechtheum,\nnotable for the famous porch of the Caryatides or sculptured maidens\nwho support the roof. The ruins of the Parthenon occupy the summit. Traces of Christian paintings on the inner walls recall the\nperiod when the Parthenon was used as a Church, and the stairs of\nthe Minaret erected during the Turkish occupation still stand. Much\nof the frieze that was not abstracted by Lord Elgin is preserved in\nthe Acropolis Museum, below which is the Theatre of Dionysius,\nwhere the immortal tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides\nwere played. This open-air theatre seated 16,000 in classic times,\nwith a front row of marble chairs. The reliefs supporting the stage\nare Roman, dating from the time of Nero.\nThe marble Theseon on Apostle Paul Street, near the railway\nstation, is considered to be in better preservation than any other of\nthe ancient Greek temples. On the other hand, only fifteen columns\nremain of the original hundred of the temple of Zeus Olympius,\nwhich is reputed to have been the second largest Greek temple in\nhistory. The approach to this was through the Arch of Hadrian.\nNear this Arch is the circular temple of Lysicrates, used originally\nfor the display of trophies at the Dionysian festivals.\nThe new Stadium, seating 60,000 spectators, provided the arena\nfor the Olympic Games in 1906. It is built on the site of the goal of\nthe historic Marathon race.\nAmong the other interesting places is Mars Hill, where St. Paul\npreached to the Athenians. The National Archaeological Museum\nhas a unique collection of Mycenean antiquities discovered by\nDr. Schliemann, the excavator of ancient Troy. The Hill of the\nPnyx, with the rock platform from which Athenian orators addressed\nthe Assembly on matters of moment, affords a view of the Acropolis\nwhich shouldjjct be missed. Another fine view can be obtained from\nMuseum Hill.\nPage Twelve The Caryatidae\nGreek National Costume\nThe Acropolis\nPage Thirteen WBWWSJeKBWBf i\nConstantinople\nA 7~ERY beautiful is the sea route between Athens, Constantinople,\n\" and Beyrout. The Strait of the Dardanelles, known to the\n. Greeks as the Hellespont, which was swum by Hero and Leander\nand later by Lord Byron, is guarded at the entrance by the\ncastles of Sedil Bahr and Kum Kaleh, and farther on by the Old\nCastle of Anatolia and the Old Castle of Rumelia. The land on\nthe right is the land of Troy, famous for the great siege, the incidents\nin which are sung in Homer's \"Iliad.\" At the entrance to the Sea of\nMarmora, on the left, is the town of Gallipoli, a name of tragic memory\nin the recent war. The Strait of the Dardanelles is 47 miles long and\nfrom 3 to 4 miles broad. Most beautiful of all is the vision of the city\non the Golden Horn, with its domes and minarets, palaces and ancient\nwalls. \"Formed by Nature,\" says Edward Gibbon, the historian,\n\"for the centre and capital of agreatmonarchy,\" CONSTANTINOPLE\nwas the creation of a Roman Emperor who ransacked the temples\nof Italy, Greece and Syria to enrich and adorn this, his Eastern\nthrone-city. The oldest of these imported trophies, the Serpent\nColumn, taken from the Oracle Sanctuary at Delphi, still stands in\nthe Hippodrome. The splendor of the city one sees to-day is, however, due more to the later Emperor Justinian, who, in the sixth\ncentury, with the aid of a great architect, Anthemios, made Constantinople the wonder, just as it was the centre of the civilized world.\nOf the Turkish Sultans, the greatest of the builders was Suleyman,\nwhose magnificent mosque is a reminder of the luxurious Court to\nwhich in the sixteenth century every bazaar in the East paid tribute.\n\"Stamboul the immemorial, still the same as when the old Khalifs had\nlooked out on it; as when Suleyman the Great had imagined and created\nits noble outline by adding the finest of the cupolas\u00E2\u0080\u0094a ghost, a magnificent\nghost of the past, is this city, still standing, with its endless spindles of stone,\nso slender, so light, that how they have lasted is a marvel.\"\nPierre Loti, in \"Disenchanted.\"\nOn arrival at Constantinople the \"Empress of Scotland\" will\nproceed up the Bosphorus as far as the entrance to the Black Sea.\nDrives have been arranged round Constantinople, facilitating\nvisits to the Galata Tower, the Seraglio, Sancta Sophia, the Hippodrome, the China Mosque of Ahmed I, and the fascinating bazaars of\nStamboul.\nPage Fourteen Street Merchants in Constantinople\n(Publishers Photo Service)\nSeraglio Point\n(Keystone View Co )\nSancta Sophia\n(Publishers Photo Service)\nPage Fifteen The H Land\nFrom Constantinople we go to BEYROUT, a city that, although\nit is situated in the oldest part of the world, is essentially modern.\nAn important seaport in the great Phoenician Empire, and for long\nthe seat of a well-known school of jurisprudence in the Roman\nEmpire, recognized as one of the three official law schools by the\nEmperor Justinian, Beyrout had fallen from its high estate, and in\n1844 had become a small town of perhaps 8,000 people. Its rapid\ngrowth since then is the result of its new-born commercial importance,\ncreated by the genius and patience of nineteenth-century Frenchmen.\nIt is the centre of the Eastern silk industry, and in addition is a large\nexporter of olive oil, sesame seed, tobacco and wool. The harbour of\nthe new town was built by French capitalists, who desired an export-\n. ing terminus for their railway through northern Palestine.\nThe \"Empress\" will arrive here early in the morning, and after\ngiving those on board an opportunity to drive about the town, will\nsail that evening for Haifa, where she will lie at anchor for a week,\nto give her passengers an unrivalled opportunity to explore the\nHOLY LAND. For those who desire it there will be an excursion\noverland, from Beyrout to DAMASCUS, a city which was contemporary with Sodom and Gomorrah, and is the oldest city in the world.\nYou can pass along the \"Street called Straight\" and see the very\nwall down which St. Paul was let in a basket. The bazaars are the\nmost fascinating in the Orient, made up of vaulted streets with\nniches for stores. Shoes inlaid with mother-of-pearl, sugared almonds, brass and silverware, rugs, inlaid woodwork, rubies, silks,\nthese and a thousand other things attract and tempt the passer-by.\nNot the least attractive of the many wonders of this city is its extraordinary population. Here are to be found representatives of every\nnation of the world, all crying their wares and asking you just six\ntimes the price which they are willing to accept.\nFrom Damascus we go south to the SEA OF GALILEE, upon\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the waters of which Christ walked and in which many of the Apostles\nfished for a living. The names of the surrounding towns are redolent\nof the story of the Bible. Tiberias, Magdala, the steep place down\nwhich plunged the Gadarene swine, the slope on which Christ\npreached his Sermon on the Mount\u00E2\u0080\u0094all these are to be seen and\nreverently visited beside the Sea of Galilee. The Greek church at\nCana of Galilee contains an earthen jar which is claimed to be one\nPage Sixteen The \"Street called Straight,\"\nDamascus\n(E. M. Newman)\nBeyrout\n{Ewing Galloway)\nPage Seventeen. mm\nmmam\nNazareth\nof those into which the water was turned into wine at the marriage\nfeast; and the spring is still shown from which water is said to have\nbeen drawn for Christ's first miracle. At Capernaum the Franciscan\nmonks are excavating the synagogue in which Christ preached.\nFishermen are still drawing their nets as in the days of the Apostles.\n\"The soil of the plain of Gennesareth is wonderfully rich, wild flowers spring\nup everywhere. Tulips, anemones and irises carpet the ground. The plain\nis almost, a parallelogram, shut in on the north and south by steep cliffs,\nnearly a thousand feet high, broken her.e and there into terraces, but nowhere\neasily to be climbed. On the west side the hills recede not quite so precipitously, and streams of black basalt boulders encroach upon the plain. The\nshore line is gently embayed and the beach is pearly white\u00E2\u0080\u0094one mass of\ntriturated fresh-water shells\u00E2\u0080\u0094and edged by a fringe of the exquisitely lovely\noleanders.\"\nDr. Tristram.\nMany places in NAZARETH are identified with the boyhood of\nJesus\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mary's well, the fountain of still water to which the women\nstill bring their jars, the grotto of the Carpenter's shop found under\nan old church built by the crusaders. The hill above Nazareth\ncommands a famous view of Palestine, stretching from Mount\nHermon to Benjamin and from the Jordan valley to the Mediterranean.\n\"However deep the builder may be obliged to dig to reach it, no other foundation than the virgin rock contents the Nazarene. The craftsmen ply their\nseveral trades; always seated, if it be possible, either at their doors, or in the\nstreet. Most of the old-fashioned tools are still in use; but in carpenters'\nshops the modern innovation of a work-bench has been introduced, so that the\ncarpenter stands at his work instead of sitting with his plank on his lap, as\nit is possible that Joseph the carpenter did nineteen hundred years ago.\nThe dwellings, as elsewhere in the East, are not cumbered with much furniture.\"\nDr. John Fulton, in \"Palestine, the Holy Land.\"\nThose who came overland from Damascus will now rejoin the\nother travellers at Haifa. Every foot of the ground is hallowed with\nmemories, and it is difficult to select what to do in the seven days of\nour stay in the land of the Bible. Three days are allotted to Jerusalem itself, which is five hours by rail from Haifa.\n^^,N\nPage Eighteen\nI 0&\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0u-mjiBiwn\nJeru^km-Bethkhm.\nJERUSALEM has been destroyed and rebuilt so often (sixteen\ntimes at least) that some of the streets in David's royal city are\nnow eighty feet underground. The walls built by David and Solomon\nhave disappeared, but traces of the wall of Herod may still be seen\nnear the Wailing Place of the Jews.\nThe Church of the Holy Sepulchre is built on the traditional rock\nof Calvary, and in the centre of the church is the traditional tomb of\nChrist. The Mosque of Omar covers the rock on the summit of\nMount Moriah on which Abraham offered the sacrifice of Isaac.\nHere was the original Temple of Solomon, and here, according to the\nMohammedans, the Angel Gabriel will blow the Last Trump.\n\"DETHLEHEM is only a few miles from Jerusalem. The road\nfrom the Jaffa gate follows the route taken by the Wise Men\nfrom the East. It passes the field of Boaz where Ruth gleaned her\nwheat, and the field in which the Shepherds watched their sheep.\nIt passes near the spot where David slew Goliath. It passes a\nsquare building with a dome known as Rachel's Tomb, built on\nor near the pillar that Jacob set up on his wife's grave.\nThe Church of the Nativity is built on the site of a grotto which\ntradition identifies with the birthplace of Jesus. This was built\nby the Emperor Constantine in 330 A.D. and is thus the oldest\nChristian edifice in the world. It is held jointly by the three sects\nof the Latin, Greek and Armenian churches. The Shrine of the\nNativity is lit up with fifteen lamps whiph are never allowed to go\nout.\nTo-day Bethlehem is busy with the manufacture of rosaries and\nof crucifixes of olive-wood and mother-of-pearl. The women have a\ndistinctive and picturesque costume, with head-dress richly ornamented.\nFrom Haifa there is an optional trip, by motor, to Nazareth,\nTiberias, and the Sea of Galilee, and another to Jericho.\nPage Twenty k\nSelling Bread at Jaffa Gate\nA Water Carrier\nAt the Church of the Holy Sepulchre\nThe Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem\nPage Twenty-one Alexandria-Cairo\nTpWO thousand years before Abraham pitched his tent on the banks\nof the Nile, the Sphinx was.carved out of the solid rock and four\ncivilizations had waxed and waned in Egypt. Here indeed are the\nearliest records of human culture in the Mediterranean basin, records\nwhich are being added to day by day.\nALEXANDRIA, the port where the \"Empress of Scotland\" will\nland her passengers, was founded about 331 B.C. by Alexander the\nGreat, and remained the capital of Egypt for the Greeks and the\nRomans over a thousand years. Under the Caesars it grew to be\nsecond only to Rome. To-day the Royal Palaces where Cleopatra\nonce reigned in voluptuous splendour have sunk, with the land they\nwere built on, under the sea. The train journey of 130 miles from\nAlexandria to CAIRO passes through the fertile Nile Delta, the\nsoil in which, silting up at the rate of four inches in a century, is\nover 70 feet deep. No wonder that from time immemorial there has\nbeen \"corn in Egypt.\"\nThe first Arab settlement at Cairo was Fustat, the City of Tents,\ndating from about 641 A.D. This was near the .modern tower of\nHeliopolis beside the fortress of On, the ruins of which still remain.\nAt On there was once a University at which Moses and Plato in\ntheir day were students. Cairo itself, the City of the Caliphs'\nPalaces, was established in 969 by Saladin, the chivalrous leader of\nthe Saracens against Richard Cceur de Lion and his Crusaders.\nTo-day it is the largest city in Africa, with nearly a million inhabitants and pretentious modern squares and buildings in notable\ncontrast to the still extensive native quarter.\nThe Mosque of Ibn-Tuhun is the oldest in Cairo, built from the\ndesigns of a Christian prisoner in 868. El Az-har, \"The Resplendent,\"\nis the great Mohammedan University, founded in 970 and thronged ,\neach year by ten thousand students from the Gold Coast to Java and\nSumatra. These receive their food and tuition free. The Mosque\nof the Sultan Hassan has a stately portal 66 feet high. A notable\nlandmark in the Citadel is the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, with its\ntall slender minarets.\nA drive about the city and its environs will be arranged for\npassengers on the \"Empress of Scotland,\" and will take them to the\nPyramids and the Sphinx and as far afield as the island of Roda,\nwhere Moses is said to have been hidden in the bulrushes.\ni\nML\nLAmZr*> t, *\ns MA a\nPage Twenty .two \u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\nThe Pyramids of Giza\nThe Kaitbay Mosque\nA Street in Cairo\nPage Twenty-three 7/ieMe- 1\nA N optional excursion has been arranged for those who desire to\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 visit THEBES and the VALLEY OF THE KINGS, where the\nsepulchres of Tutankhamen, Rameses III, VI and IX, Seti I and\nothers have yielded marvellous records of the past. It is four hundred and fifty miles from Cairo to Luxor, and a pleasant way of\nmaking the trip is to go by train and return by boat down the broad\nwater highway of the Nile. The waters of the River Nile are the\nlife-blood of the country, and now, as in the time of the Pharaohs,\nthe life, health and prosperity of the people are governed by their\nflow. When Great Britain undertook the government of the country\nof the people of Egypt half a century ago, they were content to starve\nor feast, just as the river flooded or ran dry. The British immediately\ncommenced operations designed to control as far as possible the\nflow of water. The construction of the Assuan, the world's largest\ndam, has permitted the storing of flood water in great artificial\nlakes until it is needed in dry years.\nLuxor, just across the river from Thebes, is a modern city and\npossessed of excellent hotels. It is the usual city of residence for\nthose who are visiting the tombs of the Kings.\nThe Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic seated figures, are the\nfirst landmarks on the plain of Thebes. Then\n\"that strange fascinating strip of barren land which is strewn with temples\nand honeycombed with tombs. At the foot of these tiger-colored precipices\nTheodore M. Davis found the sepulchre of Queen Hatshepsu, the Queen\nElizabeth of the Old Egyptian world.... here to the north is the temple of\nKurna, and over there the Ramesseum; those rows of little pillars close under\nthe mountain are the pillars of Hatshepsu's temple, which bears upon its walls\nthe pictures of the expedition to the historic land of Punt... .beyond to the\nwest is the temple of Deir-el-Medinet, with its judgment of the dead....\nThis turmoil of sun-baked earth and rock, grey, yellow, pink, orange and red,\nawakens the curiosity, summons the love of the strange, suggests that it holds\nsecrets to charm the souls of men.\"\nRobert Hichens, in \"Egypt and its Monuments.\"\nTo these celebrated memorials have recently been added the\ntomb of King Tutankhamen, richer perhaps in treasure than all the\nother tombs combined. The excavations here are still in progress.\nAn extension can be made from Luxor to Assouan.\nPage Twenty-fQOT,. mm\nNaples-'Rome\n(\"*\N the voyage from Alexandria to NAPLES the \"Empress of Scot-\n^^^ land\" passes between the legendary Scylla and Charybdis (the\nStraits of Messina) and skirts the rocks from which the Sirens sang\nto Ulysses (Capri). No aspect in the Mediterranean is more captivating than that of the Bay of Naples, with its azure sea, its embankment of buildings, and its amphitheatre of volcanic mountains\nculminating in the still live crater of Vesuvius. Here was originally\na Greek Colony, which Rome conquered and established as a residential city for its wealthy nobles. In the Middle Ages, Naples played\na vigorous role of independence, as many of its castles and churches\nstill testify. Its chief pride to-day is the splendid National Museum,\nwith unique collections of Greek and Roman sculptures and of wall\npaintings and bronzes from the buried cities of Herculaneum and\nPompeii. Fascinating also is the Aquarium, with its strange wild\nlife from the waters of the Mediterranean. The Neapolitan is seen at\nhis or her best and gayest in the adjoining park of the Villa Nazionale.\nNearly five days are at our passengers' disposal, giving time to\npay a visit to POMPEII or for an optional two .days' excursion in\nRome. At Pompeii the House of the Fawn, the House of Glaucus\ndescribed in \"The Last Days of Pompeii,\" the Street of Tombs, the\nTemple of Isis, and many other resurrected ruins help to visualize the\ndaily life in a Roman city shortly after the time of Christ.\nPompeii, which was overwhelmed by an eruption of Vesuvius in\n79 A.D., was forgotten until the site was accidentally rediscovered in\n1594. Systematic excavations undertaken since 1763 have gradually\nrevealed the city in which 50,000 people once lived, with its temples,\nshops, houses, public baths, amphitheatre seating 20,000 spectators,\nand barracks of the gladiators. Herculaneum was a smaller, though\nricher city, the site of which is mostly covered by the town of Resina.\nFrom Naples there are optional excursions to Sorrento, Amalfi\nand Solfatara.\nAs for ROME, that person must be strangely constituted who does\nnot feel a thrill on first approaching the Eternal City\u00E2\u0080\u0094so much of\nthe history of the civilized world is linked up with the fortunes of\nthose who ruled the Roman Empire or swayed the destinies of the\nChurch of Rome. The groups of pillars and arches and temple walls\nfrom the Forum to the Coliseum carry the mind back to the Rome of\nthe Caesars.\nPage Twenty-six\n^*!&7>\ntr;\na\nvi. tern\n\f%\ndY\\nJ JM \K\nSri itil\nm$\nKB\n7\ A/\\n1$m\n4 \\\l\'\n^%'J ' 1\n\T1\n} r\nRome -Monaco\nHPHE Coliseum and the Catacombs recall the persecution and mar-\ntyrdom of the early Christians and the Arch of Constantine their\nultimate triumph. The Arch of Titus celebrates in vivid sculpture\nthe Capture of Jerusalem. Fourteen obelisks remind the student that\nRome at one time held- and drew, tribute from Egypt. The luxury\nof the Imperial City is seen in the Baths of Caracalla, more than a\nmile long, with rooms for 1,600 bathers, famous statuary, and art\ngalleries. The glory of the Roman Catholic Church is written in\nthe spacious buildings of the Square of the Lateran, the Church of\nSt. Peter and the Vatican.\nThe galleries and collections of Rome are the largest in the world.\nThe Vatican, the Lateran, the Capitoline, and the national museums\nand galleries contain remarkable collections that have a world-wide\ncelebrity. There are numerous private collections of pictures in the\nBorghese, Barberini, Doria, Sciarra, Torlonia and Corsini palaces,\nand masterpieces of painting are also to be found in almost every\nchurch. The libraries of Rome are unrivalled.\nModern Rome is undoubtedly visited by more .tourists than any\nother city in the world. All roads lead to Rome now as they did in\nthe past. The city has now as many hotels as it had churches in\ntimes gone by, and they are excellent. Like every other Italian city,\nRome has its specialties, and although the main industries of the\nprovince are agriculture, still the artistic industries of the city have\nbeen revived in recent years. The most important are Roman silks,\nRoman pearls, reproductions of ancient vases, statues and paintings,\nmosaics and jewellery.\nMONACO is our port for the Riviera. Monte Carlo is devoted to\nthe worship of the oldest of pagan goddesses, Fortune by name, whose\ntemple, the Casino, is perhaps the best known in the world. Automobiles will be provided for a drive along the famous Corniche Road, with\nits panorama of the Cote d'Azur to Nice, the Garden City and chief\npleasure resort of Southern France.\nNice brings us back once more to the pirates of Algiers, for in 1543,\nafter a fierce bombardment, the city was sacked by the terrible\nBarbarossa. To-day, however, its principal battles are fought with\nflowers and confetti during the annual Spring Carnival. The flower\nmarket of Nice is a favourite locale for artists. Beautiful villas line\nthe famous Promenade des Anglais and nestle in the sheltering hills.\nPage Twenty-eight X8\nSouthampton-London\nTTROM Monaco we pass through the Straits of Gibraltar, enter the\n-^ Bay of Biscay and then the English Channel. At CHERBOURG,\nthose who wish to visit Paris can obtain good train connection;\nthence the steamship crosses to Southampton. At SOUTHAMPTON\nwe shall bid good-bye to the \"Empress of Scotland,\" which, having\nbrought us so far, now returns to her regular trans-Atlantic service.\nFast trains will bear us over the short distance between Southampton and LONDON. But although the homeward journey can be\nbegun almost at once, a large number of passengers will, of course,\nprefer to spend as much time as possible in the British Isles.\nOf the charms, the fascination, the historic and literary associations of London it is superfluous to speak. Everyone will want to\nvisit St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London,\nthe Houses of Parliament, the British Museum, Hyde Park, and the\nhundreds of other spots the names of which have almost passed into\n. usage as common nouns instead of names of places. There are the\nHorse Guards with their gorgeous uniforms, Dickens' original\n\"Old Curiosity Shop,\" Nelson's Monument in Trafalgar Square,\nCarlyle's house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, art galleries, shops, theatres,\nthe Old Cheshire Cheese, and scores of other delightful places.\nFrom London some charming short excursions can be made by\nrailway or motor\u00E2\u0080\u0094to Brighton, queen of English seashore resorts;\nto Windsor, with its historic Castle; to beautiful Hampton Court\nPalace, built by Cardinal Wolsey. Still farther along the River\nThames is the ancient university city of Oxford.\nStill a little farther, but easily reached in three or four hours from\nLondon by train, is the lovely county of Warwickshire. Stratford-on-\nAvon, with Shakespeare's house, and Shottery, with Anne Hatha-\nways\u00E2\u0080\u0094Kenilworth with its ruined castle, Warwick with its castle,\nLeamington Spa\u00E2\u0080\u0094all these will enchant the visitor.\nOr if he has more time yet, there is Scotland to welcome him\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEdinburgh with its Black Watch, its Castle, its Princes Street, and\nits memories. Or Stirling, or the Trossachs, or Loch Lomond, or\nAbbotsford, or Inverness, or Aberdeen. Just across a narrow strip\nof water is the Emerald Isle\u00E2\u0080\u0094now a Free State\u00E2\u0080\u0094and gallant little\nWales should also not pass unnoticed. Railway or motor itineraries\nto cover the British Isles can be made very easily.\nReturn can be made across the Atlantic by any Canadian Pacific\nsteamship. There are very frequent sailings from Southampton,\nLiverpool, Glasgow, Belfast, Queenstown, Cherbourg, Antwerp, or\nHamburg.\n\"Z&p ^>r\nPage Thirty CANADIAN PACIFIC AGENCIES\nTHROUGHOUT THE WORLD\nAtlanta, Ga\t\nBoston, Mass....\nBuffalo, N.Y\t\nChicago, 111\t\nCincinnati, Ohio.\nCleveland, Ohio..\nDetroit, Mich.. ..\nKansas City, Mo.\nLos Angeles, Cal.\nMinneapolis, Minn\nMontreal, Que....\nNelson, B.C\t\nNew York, N.Y.. . .\nNorth Bay, Ont...\nOttawa, Ont\t\nPhiladelphia, Pa. .\nPittsburgh, Pa\t\nPortland, Ore\t\nQuebec, Que\t\nSt. John, N.B\t\nSt. Louis, Mo\t\nSan Francisco, Cal\nSeattle, Wash\t\nTacoma, Wash....\nToronto, Ont\t\nVancouver, B.C...\nVictoria, B.C\t\nWashington, D.C..\nWinnipeg, Man. . .\nAntwerp, Belgium\nBelfast, Ireland. . .\nBirmingham, Eng.\nBristol, Eng\t\nBrussels, Belgium.\nGlasgow, Scotland\nHamburg, Germany\nLiverpool, Eng. .\nLondon, Eng....\nManchester, Eng\nParis, France. . .\nRotterdam, Holland\nSouthampton, Eng\nHongkong\t\nKobe\t\nManila\t\nShanghai\t\nTokyo\t\nYokohama\t\nSydney, N.S.W.\n.D. C.\nJ. E.\nCANADA AND UNITED STATES\n.E. G. Chesbrough 49 N. Forsyth St.\n. L. R. Hart 405 Boylston St.\n.H. R. Mathewson 160 Pearl St.\n.R. S. Elworthy 71 East Jackson Blvd.\n. M. E. Malone 201 Dixie Terminal Bldg.\n.G. H. Griffin 1040 Prospect Ave.\n.G. G. McKay 1239 Griswold St.\n. R. G. Norris, 601 Railway Exchange Bldg.\n. W. Mcllroy 605 South Spring St.\n.H. M. Tait 611 2nd Ave. South\n. D. K. Kennedy 141 St. James St.\nJ. S. Carter Baker & Ward St.\n.E. T. Stebbing Madison Av. at 44th St.\n. L. O. Tremblay 87 Main Street W.\n.J. A. McGill 83 Sparks St.\n. R. C. Clayton Locust St. at 15th\n.C. L. Williams 338 Sixth Ave.\n.W. H. Deacon 55 Third St.\n. C. A. Langevin Palais Station\n.G. B. Burpee 40 King St.\n.G. P. Carbrey 420 Locust St.\n.F. L. Nason 675 Market St.\nE. L. Sheehan 608 Second Ave.\nO'Keefe 1113 Pacific Ave.\nParker Canadian Pacific Bldg., King & Yonge Sts.\n. .J. J. Forster Canadian Pacific Station\n. .L. D. Chetham 1102 Government St.\n. .C. E. Phelps 905 Fifteenth St., NAY.\n. .W. C. Casey 364 Main St.\nEUROPE\n. . A. L. Rawlinson 25 Quai Jordaens\n.. Wm. McCalla 41 Victoria St.\n. .W. T. Treadaway 4 Victoria Square\n. . A. S. Ray 18 St. Augustine's Parade\n. .L. H. R. Plummer 98 Blvd. Adolphe-Max\n. .W. Stewart 25 \"Bothwell St.\n.. I. H. Gardner Gansemarkt 3\n. . R. E. Swain Pier Head\n/C. E. Jenkins .62-65 Charing Cross, S.W.I\n' \G. Saxon Jones 103 Leadenhall St., E.C. 3\n. J. W. Maine 31 Mosley Street\n. . A. V. Clark 7 Rue Scribe\n. .J. Springett 91 Coolsingel\n. . H. Taylor 7 Canute Road\nASIA -\n. .T. R. Percy Opposite Blake Pier\n. .E. Hospes 1 Bund\n. . T. R. Shaw 14 Calle David\n. .E. Stone 12 Bund\n. .G. E. Costello No. 1 Itchome, Yuraku-Cho, Kojimachi-Ku\n. .G. E. Costello 1 Bund\nAUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC.\n. . J. Sclater Union House.\nW. BALLANTYNE\nSteamship Gen'l Passenger Agt.\nMONTREAL\nW. G. ANNABLE\nAsst. Steamship Passenger Manager\nMONTREAL\nE. F. L. STURDEE\nAct'g Gen'l Passenger Agt.\nHONGKONG\nH. G. DRING,\nEuropean Passenger Mgr.\nLONDON\nWALTER MAUGHAN\nSteamship Passenger Manager\nMONTREAL\nPage Thirty-two ^i\nw:\n-\u00C2\u00BB "@en . "Advertisements"@en . "Pamphlets"@en . "CC_TX_284_020"@en . "10.14288/1.0354866"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "CC-EX-17"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-284-20"@en . "Mediterranean cruise 1925"@en . "Text"@en .