Mark Twain: The Complete Works[Classics Authors Vol: 1] (Black Horse Classics) E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Mark Twain
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• Sprache: Englisch
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This book contains the works and novels of Mark Twain:- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- The Prince and the Pauper- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court- The American Claimant- Tom Sawyer Abroad- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson- Tom Sawyer, Detective- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc- A Double Barrelled Detective Story- A Horse's Tale- The Mysterious Stranger\Also Available in Black Horse Classics1 - Mark Twain2 - Charles Dickens3 - William Shakespeare4 - Jane Austen5 - leo Tolstoy6 - Jack London7 - Rudyard Kipling8 - H.G Wells9 - Marcel Proust10 - Victor Hugo11 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky12 - Jules Vernes13 - Thomas Hardy14- Joseph Conrad15 -Oscar Wilde16- Herman Melville17 - Edgar Allan Poe18 - Henry James19 - Lewis Carroll20 - Hans Christen Andersen 

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CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG TWAIN COLLECTION

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTO-BIOGRAPHY      FIRST ROMANCE. ROUGHING IT THE GILDED AGE (with Charles Dudley Warner) SKETCHES NEW AND OLD      MY WATCH      POLITICAL ECONOMY      THE JUMPING FROG      JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE      THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY      THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY      A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE      NIAGARA      ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS      TO RAISE POULTRY      EXPERIENCE OF THE MCWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP      MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE      HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK      THE OFFICE BORE      JOHNNY GREER      THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT      THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER      DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY      THE JUDGES "SPIRITED WOMAN"      INFORMATION WANTED      SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS      MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP      A FASHION ITEM      RILEY-NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT      A FINE OLD MAN      SCIENCE vs. LUCK      THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN      MR. BLOKE'S ITEM      A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE      PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT      AFTER-DINNER SPEECH      LIONIZING MURDERERS      A NEW CRIME      A CURIOUS DREAM      A TRUE STORY      THE SIAMESE TWINS      SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON      A GHOST STORY      THE CAPITOLINE VENUS      SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE      JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK      HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER      THE PETRIFIED MAN      MY BLOODY MASSACRE      THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT      CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS      AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN      "AFTER" JENKINS      ABOUT BARBERS      "PARTY CRIES" IN IRELAND      THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECANT RESIGNATION      HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF      HONORED AS A CURIOSITY      FIRST INTERVIEW KITH ARTEMUS WARD      CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS      THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR "LOCALIZED"      THE WIDOW'S PROTEST      THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST      CURING A COLD      A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION      RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR      A MYSTERIOUS VISIT THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR AND OTHER WHIMSICAL SKETCHES      THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR      A MEMORY      INTRODUCTORY TO "MEMORANDA".      ABOUT SMELLS      A COUPLE OF SAD EXPERIENCES      DAN MURPHY      THE "TOURNAMENT" IN A.D. 1870      CURIOUS RELIC FOR SALE      A REMINISCENCE OF THE BACK SETTLEMENTS      A ROYAL COMPLIMENT      THE APPROACHING EPIDEMIC      THE TONE-IMPARTING COMMITTEE      OUR PRECIOUS LUNATIC      THE EUROPEAN WAR      THE WILD MAN INTERVIEWED      LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN 1601—CONVERSATION AT THE SOCIAL FIRESIDE OF THE TUDORS THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON AND OTHER STORIES      THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON      ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING      ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE           THE GRATEFUL POODLE           THE BENEVOLENT AUTHOR           THE GRATEFUL HUSBAND      PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH      THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN      THE CANVASSER'S TALE      AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER      PARIS NOTES      LEGEND OF SAGENFELD, IN GERMANY      SPEECH ON THE BABIES      SPEECH ON THE WEATHER      CONCERNING THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE      ROGERS SOME RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT A TRAMP ABROAD THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY IN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEY FENNIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES ESSAYS ON PAUL BOURGET      WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US      A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET TOM SAWYER ABROAD THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR, A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES      THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG      MY FIRST LIE, AND HOW I GOT OUT OF IT      THE ESQUIMAUX MAIDEN'S ROMANCE      CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BOOK OF MRS. EDDY      IS HE LIVING OR IS HE DEAD?      MY DEBUT AS A LITERARY PERSON      AT THE APPETITE-CURE      CONCERNING THE JEWS      FROM THE 'LONDON TIMES' OF 1904      ABOUT PLAY-ACTING      TRAVELLING WITH A REFORMER      DIPLOMATIC PAY AND CLOTHES      LUCK      THE CAPTAIN'S STORY      STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA      MEISTERSCHAFT      MY BOYHOOD DREAMS           TO THE ABOVE OLD PEOPLE      IN MEMORIAM—OLIVIA SUSAN CLEMENS WHAT IS MAN AND OTHER ESSAYS      WHAT IS MAN?      THE DEATH OF JEAN      THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE      HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK      THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION      A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY      SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY      AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS      ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT      A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET      AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY      CONCERNING TOBACCO      TAMING THE BICYCLE      IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES      THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER      A FABLE      HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY      THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM A DOUBLE BARRELED DETECTIVE THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES       THE $30,000 BEQUEST       A DOG'S TALE       WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?       A CURE FOR THE BLUES       THE ENEMY CONQUERED; OR, LOVE TRIUMPHANT       THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE       A HELPLESS SITUATION       A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION       EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE       THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE       THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES       ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER       ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR       A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY       HOW TO TELL A STORY       GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT       WIT INSPIRATIONS OF THE "TWO-YEAR-OLDS"       AN ENTERTAINING ARTICLE       A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY       AMENDED OBITUARIES       A MONUMENT TO ADAM       A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN       INTRODUCTION TO "THE NEW GUIDE OF THE       CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH"       ADVICE TO LITTLE GIRLS       POST-MORTEM POETRY       THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED       PORTRAIT OF KING WILLIAM III       DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?       EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY       EVE'S DIARY A HORSE'S TALE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING GOLDSMITH'S FRIEND ABROAD AGAIN HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER STORIES      HOW TO TELL A STORY           THE WOUNDED SOLDIER           THE GOLDEN ARM      MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN      THE INVALIDS STORY MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES      INTRODUCTION      PREFACE      THE STORY OF A SPEECH      PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS      COMPLIMENTS AND DEGREES      BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND HATS      DEDICATION SPEECH      DIE SCHRECKEN DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE.      THE HORRORS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE      GERMAN FOR THE HUNGARIANS      A NEW GERMAN WORD      UNCONSCIOUS PLAGIARISM      THE WEATHER      THE BABIES      OUR CHILDREN AND GREAT DISCOVERIES      EDUCATING THEATRE-GOERS      THE EDUCATIONAL THEATRE      POETS AS POLICEMEN      PUDD'NHEAD WILSON DRAMATIZED      DALY THEATRE      THE DRESS OF CIVILIZED WOMAN      DRESS REFORM AND COPYRIGHT      COLLEGE GIRLS      GIRLS      THE LADIES      WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB      VOTES FOR WOMEN      WOMAN-AN OPINION      ADVICE TO GIRLS      TAXES AND MORALS      TAMMANY AND CROKER      MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION      MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT      CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES      THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL MORALS      LAYMAN'S SERMON      UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY      PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION      EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP      COURAGE      THE DINNER TO MR. CHOATE      ON STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE      HENRY M. STANLEY      DINNER TO MR. JEROME      HENRY IRVING      DINNER TO HAMILTON W. MABIE      INTRODUCING NYE AND RILEY      DINNER TO WHITELAW REID      ROGERS AND RAILROADS      THE OLD-FASHIONED PRINTER      SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS      READING-ROOM OPENING      LITERATURE      DISAPPEARANCE OF LITERATURE      THE NEW YORK PRESS CLUB DINNER      THE ALPHABET AND SIMPLIFIED SPELLING      SPELLING AND PICTURES      BOOKS AND BURGLARS      AUTHORS' CLUB      BOOKSELLERS      "MARK TWAIN's FIRST APPEARANCE"      MORALS AND MEMORY      QUEEN VICTORIA      JOAN OF ARC      ACCIDENT INSURANCE—ETC.      OSTEOPATHY      WATER-SUPPLY      MISTAKEN IDENTITY      CATS AND CANDY      OBITUARY POETRY      CIGARS AND TOBACCO      BILLIARDS      THE UNION RIGHT OR WRONG?      AN IDEAL FRENCH ADDRESS      STATISTICS      GALVESTON ORPHAN BAZAAR      SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE      CHARITY AND ACTORS      RUSSIAN REPUBLIC      RUSSIAN SUFFERERS      WATTERSON AND TWAIN AS REBELS      ROBERT FULTON FUND      FULTON DAY, JAMESTOWN      LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF MARK TWAIN      COPYRIGHT      IN AID OF THE BLIND      DR. MARK TWAIN, FARMEOPATH      MISSOURI UNIVERSITY SPEECH      BUSINESS      CARNEGIE THE BENEFACTOR      ON POETRY, VERACITY, AND SUICIDE      WELCOME HOME      AN UNDELIVERED SPEECH      SIXTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY      TO THE WHITEFRIARS      THE ASCOT GOLD CUP      THE SAVAGE CLUB DINNER      GENERAL MILES AND THE DOG      WHEN IN DOUBT, TELL THE TRUTH      THE DAY WE CELEBRATE      INDEPENDENCE DAY      AMERICANS AND THE ENGLISH      ABOUT LONDON      PRINCETON      THE ST. LOUIS HARBOR-BOAT "MARK TWAIN"      SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS 1853-1910      ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

THE COMPLETE PROJECT GUTENBERG MARK TWAIN

INNOCENTS ABROAD

by Mark Twain

[From an 1869—1st Edition]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion—Programme of the Trip—Duly Ticketed for the Excursion—Defection of the Celebrities

CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations—An Imposing Dignitary—The European Exodus —Mr. Blucher's Opinion—Stateroom No. 10—The Assembling of the Clans —At Sea at Last

CHAPTER III. "Averaging" the Passengers—Far, far at Sea.—Tribulation among the Patriarchs—Seeking Amusement under Difficulties—Five Captains in the Ship

CHAPTER IV. The Pilgrims Becoming Domesticated—Pilgrim Life at Sea —"Horse-Billiards"—The "Synagogue"—The Writing School—Jack's "Journal" —The "Q. C. Club"—The Magic Lantern—State Ball on Deck—Mock Trials —Charades—Pilgrim Solemnity—Slow Music—The Executive Officer Delivers an Opinion

CHAPTER V. Summer in Mid-Atlantic—An Eccentric Moon—Mr. Blucher Loses Confidence —The Mystery of "Ship Time"—The Denizens of the Deep—"Land Hoh" —The First Landing on a Foreign Shore—Sensation among the Natives —Something about the Azores Islands—Blucher's Disastrous Dinner —The Happy Result

CHAPTER VI. Solid Information—A Fossil Community—Curious Ways and Customs —JesuitHumbuggery—Fantastic Pilgrimizing—Origin of the Russ Pavement —Squaring Accounts with the Fossils—At Sea Again

CHAPTER VII. A Tempest at Night—Spain and Africa on Exhibition—Greeting a Majestic Stranger—The Pillars of Hercules—The Rock of Gibraltar—Tiresome Repetition—"The Queen's Chair"—Serenity Conquered—Curiosities of the Secret Caverns—Personnel of Gibraltar—Some Odd Characters —A Private Frolic in Africa—Bearding a Moorish Garrison (without loss of life)—Vanity Rebuked—Disembarking in the Empire of Morocco

CHAPTER VIII. The Ancient City of Tangier, Morocco—Strange Sights—A Cradle of Antiquity—We become Wealthy—How they Rob the Mail in Africa—The Danger of being Opulent in Morocco

CHAPTER IX. A Pilgrim—in Deadly Peril—How they Mended the Clock—Moorish Punishments for Crime—Marriage Customs—Looking Several ways for Sunday —Shrewd, Practice of Mohammedan Pilgrims—Reverence for Cats—Bliss of being a Consul-General

CHAPTER X. Fourth of July at Sea—Mediterranean Sunset—The "Oracle" is Delivered of an Opinion—Celebration Ceremonies—The Captain's Speech—France in Sight—The Ignorant Native—In Marseilles—Another Blunder—Lost in the Great City—Found Again—A Frenchy Scene

CHAPTER XI. Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill of Fare, Table d'hote—"An American Sir"—A Curious Discovery—The "Pilgrim" Bird—Strange Companionship —A Grave of the Living—A Long Captivity—Some of Dumas' Heroes—Dungeon of the Famous "Iron Mask."

CHAPTXR XII. A Holiday Flight through France—Summer Garb of the Landscape—Abroad on the Great Plains—Peculiarities of French Cars—French Politeness American Railway Officials—"Twenty Mnutes to Dinner!"—Why there are no Accidents—The "Old Travellers"—Still on the Wing—Paris at Last——French Order and Quiet—Place of the Bastile—Seeing the Sights —A Barbarous Atrocity—Absurd Billiards

CHAPTER XIII. More Trouble—Monsieur Billfinger—Re-Christening the Frenchman—In the Clutches of a Paris Guide—The International Exposition—Fine Military Review—Glimpse of the Emperor Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey

CHAPTER XIV. The Venerable Cathedral of Notre-Dame—Jean Sanspeur's Addition —Treasures and Sacred Relics—The Legend of the Cross—The Morgue—The Outrageious 'Can-Can'—Blondin Aflame—The Louvre Palace—The Great Park —Showy Pageantry—Preservation of Noted Things

CHAPTER XV. French National Burying—Ground—Among the Great Dead—The Shrine of Disappointed Love—The Story of Abelard and Heloise—"English Spoken Here"—"American Drinks Compounded Here"—Imperial Honors to an American—The Over-estimated Grisette—Departure from Paris—A Deliberate Opinion Concerning the Comeliness of American Women

CHAPTER XVI. Versailles—Paradise Regained—A Wonderful Park—Paradise Lost —Napoleonic Strategy

CHAPTER XVII. War—The American Forces Victorious—" Home Again"—Italy in Sight The "City of Palaces"—Beauty of the Genoese Women—The "Stub-Hunters" —Among the Palaces—Gifted Guide—Church Magnificence—"Women not Admitted"—How the Genoese Live—Massive Architecture—A Scrap of Ancient History—Graves for 60,000

CHAPTER XVIII. Flying Through Italy—Marengo—First Glimpse of the Famous Cathedral —Description of some of its Wonders—A Horror Carved in Stone——An Unpleasant Adventure—A Good Man—A Sermon from the Tomb—Tons of Gold and Silver—Some More Holy Relics—Solomon's Temple

CHAPTER XIX "Do You Wiz zo Haut can be?"—La Scala—Petrarch and Laura—Lucrezia Borgia—Ingenious Frescoes—Ancient Roman Amphitheatre—A Clever Delusion—Distressing Billiards—The Chief Charm of European Life—An Italian Bath—Wanted: Soap—Crippled French—Mutilated English—The Most Celebrated Painting in the World—Amateur Raptures—Uninspired Critics —Anecdote—A Wonderful Echo—A Kiss for a Franc

CHAPTER XX Rural Italy by Rail—Fumigated, According to Law—The Sorrowing Englishman—Night by the Lake of Como—The Famous Lake—Its Scenery —Como compared with Tahoe—Meeting a Shipmate

CHAPTER XXI. The Pretty Lago di Lecco—A Carriage Drive in the Country—Astonishing Sociability in a Coachman—Sleepy Land—Bloody Shrines—The Heart and Home of Priestcraft—A Thrilling Mediaeval Romance—The Birthplace of Harlequin—Approaching Venice

CHAPTER XXII. Night in Venice—The "Gay Gondolier"—The Grand Fete by Moonlight —The Notable Sights of Venice—The Mother of the Republics Desolate

CHANTER XXIII. The Famous Gondola—The Gondola in an Unromantic Aspect—The Great Square of St. Mark and the Winged Lion—Snobs, at Home and Abroad—Sepulchres of the Great Dead—A Tilt at the "Old Masters"—A Contraband Guide —The Conspiracy—Moving Again

CHAPTER XXIV. Down Through Italy by Rail—Idling in Florence—Dante and Galileo—An Ungrateful City—Dazzling Generosity—Wonderful Mosaics—The Historical Arno—Lost Again—Found Again, but no Fatted Calf Ready—The Leaning Tower of Pisa—The Ancient Duomo—The Old Original First Pendulum that Ever Swung—An Enchanting Echo—A New Holy Sepulchre—A Relic of Antiquity—A Fallen Republic—At Leghorn—At Home Again, and Satisfied, on Board the Ship—Our Vessel an Object of Grave Suspicion—Garibaldi Visited—Threats of Quarantine

CHAPTER XXV. The Works of Bankruptcy—Railway Grandeur—How to Fill an Empty Treasury—The Sumptuousness of Mother Church—Ecclesiastical Splendor —Magnificence and Misery—General Execration—More Magnificence A Good Word for the Priests—Civita Vecchia the Dismal—Off for Rome

CHAPTER XXVI. The Modern Roman on His Travels—The Grandeur of St. Peter's—Holy Relics —Grand View from the Dome—The Holy Inquisition—Interesting Old Monkish Frauds—The Ruined Coliseum—The Coliseum in the Days of its Prime —Ancient Playbill of a Coliseum Performance—A Roman Newspaper Criticism 1700 Years Old

CHAPTER XXVII. "Butchered to Make a Roman Holiday"—The Man who Never Complained —An Exasperating Subject—Asinine Guides—The Roman Catacombs The Saint Whose Fervor Burst his Ribs—The Miracle of the Bleeding Heart —The Legend of Ara Coeli

CHAPTER XXVIII. Picturesque Horrors—The Legend of Brother Thomas—Sorrow Scientifically Analyzed—A Festive Company of the Dead—The Great Vatican Museum Artist Sins of Omission—The Rape of the Sabines—Papal Protection of Art—High Price of "Old Masters"—Improved Scripture—Scale of Rank of the Holy Personages in Rome—Scale of Honors Accorded Them —Fossilizing—Away for Naples

CHAPTER XXIX. Naples—In Quarantine at Last—Annunciation—Ascent of Mount Vesuvius—A Two Cent Community—The Black Side of Neapolitan Character—Monkish Miracles—Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued—The Stranger and the Hackman—Night View of Naples from the Mountain-side—-Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued

CHAPTER XXX. Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued—Beautiful View at Dawn—Less Beautiful in the Back Streets—Ascent of Vesuvius Continued—Dwellings a Hundred Feet High—A Motley Procession—Bill of Fare for a Peddler's Breakfast—Princely Salaries—Ascent of Vesuvius Continued—An Average of Prices—The wonderful "Blue Grotto"—Visit to Celebrated Localities in the Bay of Naples—The Poisoned "Grotto of the Dog"—A Petrified Sea of Lava—Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued—The Summit Reached—Description of the Crater—Descent of Vesuvius

CHAPTER XXXI. The Buried City of Pompeii—How Dwellings Appear that have been Unoccupied for Eighteen hundred years—The Judgment Seat—Desolation—The Footprints of the Departed—"No Women Admitted"—Theatres, Bakeshops, Schools—Skeletons preserved by the Ashes and Cinders—The Brave Martyr to Duty—Rip Van Winkle—The Perishable Nature of Fame

CHAPTER XXXII. At Sea Once More—The Pilgrims all Well—Superb Stromboli—Sicily by Moonlight—Scylla and Charybdis—The "Oracle" at Fault—Skirting the Isles of Greece Ancient Athens—Blockaded by Quarantine and Refused Permission to Enter—Running the Blockade—A Bloodless Midnight Adventure—Turning Robbers from Necessity—Attempt to Carry the Acropolis by Storm—We Fail—Among the Glories of the Past—A World of Ruined Sculpture—A Fairy Vision—Famous Localities—Retreating in Good Order —Captured by the Guards—Travelling in Military State—Safe on Board Again

CHAPTER XXXIII. Modern Greece—Fallen Greatness—Sailing Through the Archipelago and the Dardanelles—Footprints of History—The First Shoddy Contractor of whom History gives any Account—Anchored Before Constantinople—Fantastic Fashions—The Ingenious Goose-Rancher—Marvelous Cripples—The Great Mosque—The Thousand and One Columns—The Grand Bazaar of Stamboul

CHAPTER XXXIV. Scarcity of Morals and Whiskey—Slave-Girl Market Report—Commercial Morality at a Discount—The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople —Questionable Delights of Newspaperdom in Turkey—Ingenious Italian Journalism—No More Turkish Lunches Desired—The Turkish Bath Fraud —The Narghileh Fraud—Jackplaned by a Native—The Turkish Coffee Fraud

CHAPTER XXXV. Sailing Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea—"Far-Away Moses" —Melancholy Sebastopol—Hospitably Received in Russia—Pleasant English People—Desperate Fighting—Relic Hunting—How Travellers Form "Cabinets"

CHAPTER XXXVI. Nine Thousand Miles East—Imitation American Town in Russia—Gratitude that Came Too Late—To Visit the Autocrat of All the Russias

CHAPTER XXXVII. Summer Home of Royalty—Practising for the Dread Ordeal—Committee on Imperial Address—Reception by the Emperor and Family—Dresses of the Imperial Party—Concentrated Power—Counting the Spoons—At the Grand Duke's—A Charming Villa—A Knightly Figure—The Grand Duchess—A Grand Ducal Breakfast—Baker's Boy, the Famine-Breeder—Theatrical Monarchs a Fraud—Saved as by Fire—The Governor—General's Visit to the Ship —Official "Style"—Aristocratic Visitors—"Munchausenizing" with Them —Closing Ceremonies

CHAPTER XXXVIII. Return to Constantinople—We Sail for Asia—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Visitors—Ancient Smyrna—The "Oriental Splendor" Fraud —The "Biblical Crown of Life"—Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans—Sociable Armenian Girls—A Sweet Reminiscence—"The Camels are Coming, Ha-ha!"

CHAPTER XXXIX. Smyrna's Lions—The Martyr Polycarp—The "Seven Churches"—Remains of the Six Smyrnas—Mysterious Oyster Mine Oysters—Seeking Scenery—A Millerite Tradition—A Railroad Out of its Sphere

CHAPTER XL. Journeying Toward Ancient Ephesus—Ancient Ayassalook—The Villanous Donkey—A Fantastic Procession—Bygone Magnificence—Fragments of History—The Legend of the Seven Sleepers

CHAPTER XLI. Vandalism Prohibited—Angry Pilgrims—Approaching Holy Land!—The "Shrill Note of Preparation"—Distress About Dragomans and Transportation —The "Long Route" Adopted—In Syria—Something about Beirout—A Choice Specimen of a Greek "Ferguson"—Outfits—Hideous Horseflesh—Pilgrim "Style"—What of Aladdin's Lamp?

CHAPTER XLII. "Jacksonville," in the Mountains of Lebanon—Breakfasting above a Grand Panorama—The Vanished City—The Peculiar Steed, "Jericho"—The Pilgrims Progress—Bible Scenes—Mount Hermon, Joshua's Battle Fields, etc. —The Tomb of Noah—A Most Unfortunate People

CHAPTER XLIII. Patriarchal Customs—Magnificent Baalbec—Description of the Ruins —Scribbling Smiths and Joneses—Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law —The Revered Fountain of Baalam's Ass

CHAPTER XLIV. Extracts from Note-Book—Mahomet's Paradise and the Bible's—Beautiful Damascus the Oldest City on Earth—Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old City—Damascus Street Car—The Story of St. Paul—The "Street called Straight"—Mahomet's Tomb and St. George's—The Christian Massacre —Mohammedan Dread of Pollution—The House of Naaman —The Horrors of Leprosy

CHAPTER XLV. The Cholera by way of Variety—Hot—Another Outlandish Procession—Pen and-Ink Photograph of "Jonesborough," Syria—Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter—The Stateliest Ruin of All—Stepping over the Borders of Holy-Land—Bathing in the Sources of Jordan—More "Specimen" Hunting —Ruins of Cesarea—Philippi—"On This Rock Will I Build my Church"—The People the Disciples Knew—The Noble Steed "Baalbec"—Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs

CHAPTER XLVI. Dan—Bashan—Genessaret—A Notable Panorama—Smallness of Palestine —Scraps of History—Character of the Country—Bedouin Shepherds—Glimpses of the Hoary Past—Mr. Grimes's Bedouins—A Battle—Ground of Joshua —That Soldier's Manner of Fighting—Barak's Battle—The Necessity of Unlearning Some Things—Desolation

CHAPTER XLVII. "Jack's Adventure"—Joseph's Pit—The Story of Joseph—Joseph's Magnanimity and Esau's—The Sacred Lake of Genessaret—Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims—Why We did not Sail on Galilee—About Capernaum—Concerning the Saviour's Brothers and Sisters—Journeying toward Magdela

CHAPTER XLVIII. Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture—Public Reception of the Pilgrims—Mary Magdalen's House—Tiberias and its Queer Inhabitants —The Sacred Sea of Galilee—Galilee by Night

CHAPTER XLIX. The Ancient Baths—Ye Apparition—A Distinguished Panorama—The Last Battle of the Crusades—The Story of the Lord of Kerak—Mount Tabor —What one Sees from its Top—Memory of a Wonderful Garden—The House of Deborah the Prophetess

CHAPTER L. Toward Nazareth—Bitten By a Camel—Grotto of the Annunciation, Nazareth —Noted Grottoes in General—Joseph's Workshop—A Sacred Bowlder —The Fountain of the Virgin—Questionable Female Beauty —Literary Curiosities

CHAPTER LI. Boyhood of the Saviour—Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims—Home of the Witch of Endor—Nain—Profanation—A Popular Oriental Picture—Biblical Metaphors Becoming steadily More Intelligible—The Shuuem Miracle —The "Free Son of The Desert"—Ancient Jezrael—Jehu's Achievements —Samaria and its Famous Siege

CHAPTER LII Curious Remnant of the Past—Shechem—The Oldest "First Family" on Earth —The Oldest Manuscript Extant—The Genuine Tomb of Joseph—Jacob's Well —Shiloh—Camping with the Arabs—Jacob's Ladder—More Desolation —Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The Fountain of Beira—Impatience —Approaching Jerusalem—The Holy City in Sight—Noting Its Prominent Features—Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls

CHAPTER LIII. "The Joy of the Whole Earth"—Description of Jerusalem—Church of the Holy Sepulchre—The Stone of Unction—The Grave of Jesus—Graves of Nicodemus and Joseph of Armattea—Places of the Apparition—The Finding of the There Crosses——The Legend—Monkish Impostures—The Pillar of Flagellation—The Place of a Relic—Godfrey's Sword—"The Bonds of Christ"—"The Center of the Earth"—Place whence the Dust was taken of which Adam was Made—Grave of Adam—The Martyred Soldier—The Copper Plate that was on the Cross—The Good St. Helena—Place of the Division of the Garments—St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief—The Late Emperor Maximilian's Contribution—Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the Nails, and the Crown of Thorns—Chapel of the Mocking—Tomb of Melchizedek—Graves of Two Renowned Crusaders—The Place of the Crucifixion

CHAPTER LIV. The "Sorrowful Way"—The Legend of St. Veronica's Handkerchief —An Illustrious Stone—House of the Wandering Jew—The Tradition of the Wanderer—Solomon's Temple—Mosque of Omar—Moslem Traditions—"Women not Admitted"—The Fate of a Gossip—Turkish Sacred Relics—Judgment Seat of David and Saul—Genuine Precious Remains of Solomon's Temple—Surfeited with Sights—The Pool of Siloam—The Garden of Gethsemane and Other Sacred Localities

CHAPTER LV. Rebellion in the Camp—Charms of Nomadic Life—Dismal Rumors—En Route for Jericho and The Dead Sea—Pilgrim Strategy—Bethany and the Dwelling of Lazarus—"Bedouins!"—Ancient Jericho—Misery—The Night March —The Dead Sea—An Idea of What a "Wilderness" in Palestine is—The Holy hermits of Mars Saba—Good St. Saba—Women not Admitted—Buried from the World for all Time—Unselfish Catholic Benevolence—Gazelles—The Plain of the Shepherds—Birthplace of the Saviour, Bethlehem—Church of the Nativity—Its Hundred Holy Places—The Famous "Milk" Grotto—Tradition —Return to Jerusalem—Exhausted

CHAPTER LVI. Departure from Jerusalem—Samson—The Plain of Sharon—Arrival at Joppa —Horse of Simon the Tanner—The Long Pilgrimage Ended—Character of Palestine Scenery—The Curse

CHAPTER LVII. The Happiness of being at Sea once more—"Home" as it is in a Pleasure Ship—"Shaking Hands" with the Vessel—Jack in Costume—His Father's Parting Advice—Approaching Egypt—Ashore in Alexandria—A Deserved Compliment for the Donkeys—Invasion of the Lost Tribes of America—End of the Celebrated "Jaffa Colony"—Scenes in Grand Cairo—Shepheard's Hotel Contrasted with a Certain American Hotel—Preparing for the Pyramids

CHAPTER LVIII. "Recherche" Donkeys—A Wild Ride—Specimens of Egyptian Modesty—Moses in the Bulrushes—Place where the Holy Family Sojourned—Distant view of the Pyramids—A Nearer View—The Ascent—Superb View from the top of the Pyramid—"Backsheesh! Backsheesh!"—An Arab Exploit—In the Bowels of the Pyramid—Strategy—Reminiscence of "Holiday's Hill"—Boyish Exploit—The Majestic Sphynx—Things the Author will not Tell—Grand Old Egypt

CHAPTER LIX. Going Home—A Demoralized Note-Book—A Boy's Diary—Mere Mention of Old Spain—Departure from Cadiz—A Deserved Rebuke—The Beautiful Madeiras —Tabooed—In the Delightful Bermudas—An English Welcome—Good-by to "Our Friends the Bermudians"—Packing Trunks for Home—Our First Accident—The Long Cruise Drawing to a Close—At Home—Amen

CHAPTER LX. Thankless Devotion—A Newspaper Valedictory—Conclusion

PREFACE

This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet notwithstanding it is only a record of a pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him. I make small pretense of showing anyone how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the sea—other books do that, and therefore, even if I were competent to do it, there is no need.

I offer no apologies for any departures from the usual style of travel-writing that may be charged against me—for I think I have seen with impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly, whether wisely or not.

In this volume I have used portions of letters which I wrote for the Daily Alta California, of San Francisco, the proprietors of that journal having waived their rights and given me the necessary permission. I have also inserted portions of several letters written for the New York Tribune and the New York Herald.

THE AUTHOR. SAN FRANCISCO.

CHAPTER I.

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novelty in the way of excursions—its like had not been thought of before, and it compelled that interest which attractive novelties always command. It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. The participants in it, instead of freighting an ungainly steam ferry—boat with youth and beauty and pies and doughnuts, and paddling up some obscure creek to disembark upon a grassy lawn and wear themselves out with a long summer day's laborious frolicking under the impression that it was fun, were to sail away in a great steamship with flags flying and cannon pealing, and take a royal holiday beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history! They were to sail for months over the breezy Atlantic and the sunny Mediterranean; they were to scamper about the decks by day, filling the ship with shouts and laughter—or read novels and poetry in the shade of the smokestacks, or watch for the jelly-fish and the nautilus over the side, and the shark, the whale, and other strange monsters of the deep; and at night they were to dance in the open air, on the upper deck, in the midst of a ballroom that stretched from horizon to horizon, and was domed by the bending heavens and lighted by no meaner lamps than the stars and the magnificent moon—dance, and promenade, and smoke, and sing, and make love, and search the skies for constellations that never associate with the "Big Dipper" they were so tired of; and they were to see the ships of twenty navies—the customs and costumes of twenty curious peoples—the great cities of half a world—they were to hob-nob with nobility and hold friendly converse with kings and princes, grand moguls, and the anointed lords of mighty empires! It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. It was well advertised, but it hardly needed it: the bold originality, the extraordinary character, the seductive nature, and the vastness of the enterprise provoked comment everywhere and advertised it in every household in the land. Who could read the program of the excursion without longing to make one of the party? I will insert it here. It is almost as good as a map. As a text for this book, nothing could be better:

                   EXCURSION TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT,       THE CRIMEA, GREECE, AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS OF INTEREST.                      BROOKLYN, February 1st, 1867

       The undersigned will make an excursion as above during the coming      season, and begs to submit to you the following programme:

A first-class steamer, to be under his own command, and capable of accommodating at least one hundred and fifty cabin passengers, will be selected, in which will be taken a select company, numbering not more than three-fourths of the ship's capacity. There is good reason to believe that this company can be easily made up in this immediate vicinity, of mutual friends and acquaintances.

The steamer will be provided with every necessary comfort, including library and musical instruments.

An experienced physician will be on board.

Leaving New York about June 1st, a middle and pleasant route will be taken across the Atlantic, and passing through the group of Azores, St. Michael will be reached in about ten days. A day or two will be spent here, enjoying the fruit and wild scenery of these islands, and the voyage continued, and Gibraltar reached in three or four days.

A day or two will be spent here in looking over the wonderful subterraneous fortifications, permission to visit these galleries being readily obtained.

       From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France,      Marseilles will be reached in three days. Here ample time will be      given not only to look over the city, which was founded six hundred      years before the Christian era, and its artificial port, the finest      of the kind in the Mediterranean, but to visit Paris during the      Great Exhibition; and the beautiful city of Lyons, lying      intermediate, from the heights of which, on a clear day, Mont Blanc      and the Alps can be distinctly seen. Passengers who may wish to      extend the time at Paris can do so, and, passing down through      Switzerland, rejoin the steamer at Genoa.

       From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night. The excursionists      will have an opportunity to look over this, the "magnificent city of      palaces," and visit the birthplace of Columbus, twelve miles off,      over a beautiful road built by Napoleon I. From this point,      excursions may be made to Milan, Lakes Como and Maggiore, or to      Milan, Verona (famous for its extraordinary fortifications), Padua,      and Venice. Or, if passengers desire to visit Parma (famous for      Correggio's frescoes) and Bologna, they can by rail go on to      Florence, and rejoin the steamer at Leghorn, thus spending about      three weeks amid the cities most famous for art in Italy.