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Rh was born, the tombs of the Maccabbees, which we say at a distance and being ruinated appears as so many arches, we came to the mountain Crupil, where part of the wood whereof our Saviour’s cross was made grew.

And now we got forward to the convent at Jerusalem, passing by Mount Gihon, where Solomon was anointed king, and about night came to our lodgings, having made two days journey to see the holy places, and traverse the mountains of Judea: we slept well that night, but still had more pilgrimages. June 1st, we lay still to recover ourselves of our Bethlehem journey; but father Tomaso, out of his zeal, was very importunate with us to be walking to see other places which is very meritorious in the Roman church; and had we been of their religion, it had been impossible to have missed heaven; for we had received indulgences for all our lives, by which too many are deceived. June 2d, we began for to search for the holy places, which are these following: The immolation of Isaac near the temple called Mount Moriah, Peter’s prison, the monastery of the knights of Malta, Solomon’s temple, St. Helena’s hospital, the judgment-gate at which our Saviour was brought in, the gate out at which Christ went to be