brethren — his eighth and ninth decade have been the
busiest of his life. If the reader will turn back the
pages of this work he will find that while Sir Moses
imdertook only one journey during his fifth decade,
and two in his sixth and seventh respectively, he per-
formed four in his eighth. During his ninth decade
he also undertook four journeys — two to Jerusalem,
one to Eoumania, and one to Bussia.
The year 1865 found the Holy Land again suffering
from drought and disease. A pest of locusts covered
the country, and in Jerusalem the cholera raged with
such fierceness that within a short time fifteen per
cent, of the population were cut off by it. The usual
appeal was addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore, and he,
in conjunction with the Board of Deputies, started
another Holy Land Belief Fund. About £3000 were
sent out to meet the necessities of the moment, and
early in 1866, Sir Moses proceeded to the East with
the object of personally applying the balance of the
Fund. He was accompanied by Dr. Hodgkin, his
Quaker physician ; Captain Henry Moore, brother of
the British Consiil at Jerusalem ; his relatives, Mr.
and Mrs. Sebag and his old friend, Dr. Loewe.
