I wish to acknowledge also the valuable assistance and cooperation rendered by Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, and Miss Josephine Lehmann in the revision of the notes dictated or penned by me on the ground. While most of the illustrations are from my own neg atives, there are certain photographs which have been supplied by the Near East Relief, the Red Cross, the Publishers' Photo Service, and the Zionist Organization of America, all of which are protected by copyright.
Frank George Carpenter was an author, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.