Show Vt TO HOLY CITY many chr st ans have cone W th pil gams to mecca A recent writer on arabia gives quite a list of adventurous travelers who hav visited the holy city ot mecca which is not open to any but true believers in mohammed he says we can italians var thema and F nati germans wild goetzen and von maltzan english men pitts burton keane a swiss burckhardt Burck bardt a spaniard badia a swede wallin a dutchman hur cronje a frechman heard of a french surgeon and two englishmen burton quotes an unnamed pilgrim dought heard 0 more than ono frank and himself met an italian calling himself fer aarl who was on his way to mecca with the persian hajj bftts found an irishman 1 the town maltzan says that leon rochus french consul in tunis had made the pilgrimage as had also an english sailor Var thema wild pitts burckhardt wal alln burton and keane visited medina also the dutch spent alve months in the holy city as late as 1886 |