Show LETTER FROM SYRIA by courtesy of apostle P F D richards we are enabled to publish the following the present has no particular object except to let you know about my safe trip and arrival here at paris bro went with two others to berne where he stayed about three weeks by permission I 1 visited numerous friends and relatives in france north and south thence I 1 went to genoa and naples the latter place a former residence of our family for pleasure I 1 visited the south of greece and egypt eg rather conversing about than testifying tj ing of mormonism am occasionally only at cairo 1 I 1 visited the pyramids the one called choops or shofu with especial thoroughness where recently a portion of the immense layers of rock immediately above the arch of the passage facing the primeval pole star have been removed is now to be seen a beautifully engraved carto cartouche 11 col ams of hieroglyphics which soon may solve the entangled opinions concerning the vast purpose of this wonder prom from alexandria I 1 took steamer to jaffa owing to a fierce storm we had to go to beyrodt Bey rout there too it stormed hard which enabled the aral arab boatmen to collect ten francs per head where otherwise they get less than ten cents from alexandria to beyrodt Bey rout cost thirteen francs on deck a two days and two nights ride by steamship for a twenty minutes row through the harbor it cost ten francs brothers hintze and went down south to jerusalem and jaffa to meet me and I 1 came here from the north bey rout I 1 have telegraphed to them and written two letters mail service is very bad in this country I 1 it seems probable to me as you may have anticipated that I 1 shall go to armenia with brother hintze i and perhaps stay there while here 1 I conversed with two german ministers they have forbidden their flock to attend our gatherings I 1 have had tw 0 sunday morning two evening and two weekday week day meetings since I 1 came here it is early spring at present here the first flowers are out and early greensand greens and salad th e haifa colony bears some resemblance to br brigham it city but Is much smaller it is at the foot of mount carmel the original haifa is more like san Francis cos chinatown though not as systematic clean dr pleasant traveling alone by land I 1 lost several articles in a desert district at a small village the only police officer or magistrate robbed me of my shoes fortunately I 1 took no valise or clothes with me from bey route where they are yet to come from the arabic is a beautiful and both rational and systematic a c language although somewhat difficult it very pleasantly resembles hebrew turkish is easier and more adaptable to quick and immediate use like english it has borrowed very copiously from all nations it has come into contact with the alphabet is more intricate and fickle however than the english the saints here do quite well C U Ij LOCANDER HAIFA syria feb |