a ride across palestine

A Ride Across Palestineby Anthony TrollopeCircumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, andcompelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Churchof the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregariousanimal, or, perhaps, rather one of those which nature has intendedto go in pairs. At any rate I dislike solitude, and especiallytravelling solitude, and was, there