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The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
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- I. For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe
- II. Occasionally, during the following month
- III. All day Sunday at anchor
- IV. We plowed along bravely for a week or more
- V. Taking it by and large, as the sailors say
- VI. I think the Azores must be very little known in
- VII. A week of buffeting a tempestuous and relentless
- VIII. This is royal! Let those who went up through
- IX. About the first adventure we had yesterday
- X. We passed the Fourth of July on board the Quaker
- XI. We are getting foreignized rapidly and with
- XII. We have come five hundred miles by rail through
- XIII. The next morning we were up and dressed at ten
- XIV. We went to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame
- XV. One of our pleasantest visits was to Pere la
- XVI. VERSAILLES! It is wonderfully beautiful! You
- XVII. We had a pleasant journey of it seaward again
- XVIII. All day long we sped through a mountainous
- XIX. Do you wis zo haut can
- XX. We left Milan by rail
- XXI. We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco
- XXII. This Venice, which was a haughty, invincible
- XXIII. The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful
- XXIV. Some of the Quaker City's passengers had arrived
- XXV. There are a good many things about this Italy
- XXVI. What is it that confers the noblest delight?
- XXVII. So far, good. If any man has a right to feel
- XXVIII. From the sanguinary sports of the Holy
- XXIX. The ship is lying here in the harbor of
- XXX. ASCENT OF VESUVIUS--CONTINUED
- XXXI. THE BURIED CITY OF POMPEII
- XXXII. Home, again! For the first time, in many weeks
- XXXIII. From Athens all through the islands of the
- XXXIV. Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty
- XXXV. We left a dozen passengers in Constantinople
- XXXVI. We have got so far east
- XXXVII. We anchored here at Yalta, Russia
- XXXVIII. We returned to Constantinople
- XXXIX. We inquired, and learned that the lions of Smyrna
- XL. This has been a stirring day
- XLI. When I last made a memorandum
- XLII. We are camped near Temnin-el-Foka--a name which
- XLIII. We had a tedious ride of about five hours
- XLIV. The next day was an outrage upon men and horses
- XLV. The last twenty-four hours we staid in Damascus I
- XLVI. About an hour's ride over a rough, rocky road
- XLVII. We traversed some miles of desolate country whose
- XLVIII. Magdala is not a beautiful place
- XLIX. We took another swim in the Sea of Galilee at
- L. We descended from Mount Tabor
- LI. Nazareth is wonderfully interesting because the
- LII. The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem
- LIII. A fast walker could go outside the walls of
- LIV. We were standing in a narrow street
- LV. We cast up the account
- LVI. We visited all the holy places about Jerusalem
- LVII. It was worth a kingdom to be at sea again
- LVIII. The donkeys were all good, all handsome
- LIX. We were at sea now, for a very long voyage--we
- LX. Ten or eleven o'clock found us coming down to
- LXI. In this place I will print an article which I
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.