The Innocents Abroad

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   CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion Programme of the Trip Duly Ticketed for the Excursion Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II. Gra…
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   From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night. The excursionists will have an opportunity to look over this, the “magnificent city of pala…
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   “Now, say my friend don't you know any better than to be whittling the ship all to pieces that way? You ought to know better than that.” I…
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   The islands belong to Portugal, and everything in Fayal has Portuguese characteristics about it. But more of that anon. A swarm of swarthy,…
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   But behold how annoyances repeat themselves. We had no sooner gotten rid of the Spain distress than the Gibraltar guides started another a…
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   Five days' journey from here say two hundred miles are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition…
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   We set out to find the centre of the city, inquiring the direction every now and then. We never did succeed in making anybody understand ju…
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   But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment we see them. They always throw ou…
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   But the two central figures claimed all my attention. Was ever such a contrast set up before a multitude till then? Napoleon in military un…
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    Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. Go when you will, you find it furnished with those bouquets and immortelles.…
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    We walked through the great hall of sculpture and the one hundred and fifty galleries of paintings in the palace of Versailles, and felt th…
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    We had plenty of chilly tunnels wherein to check our perspiration, though. We timed one of them. We were twenty minutes passing through it,…
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    I do envy these Europeans the comfort they take. When the work of the day is done, they forget it. Some of them go, with wife and children,…
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    From my window here in Bellaggio, I have a view of the other side of the lake now, which is as beautiful as a picture. A scarred and wrinkl…
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    We reached Venice at eight in the evening, and entered a hearse belonging to the Grand Hotel d'Europe. At any rate, it was more like a hear…
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    We see the ladies go out shopping, in the most natural way, and flit from street to street and from store to store, just in the good old fa…
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    I saw a little table in the great mosaic school in Florence a little trifle of a centre table whose top was made of some sort of precious p…
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    But somehow, I can not keep that Medici mausoleum out of my memory. It is as large as a church; its pavement is rich enough for the pavemen…
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    Of course we ascended to the summit of the dome, and of course we also went up into the gilt copper ball which is above it. There was room…
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    Awakened two or three nights afterward at midnight, in a narrow canon, by the snow falling on our faces, and appalled at the imminent dange…
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    This business-like way of illustrating a touching story of the heart by laying the several fragments of the lover before us and naming them…
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    “See Naples and die.” Well, I do not know that one would necessarily die after merely seeing it, but to attempt to live there might turn ou…
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    It was a quaint and curious pastime, wandering through this old silent city of the dead lounging through utterly deserted streets where tho…
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    Shortly we came upon an ancient stone aqueduct, built upon arches, and from that time forth we had ruins all about us we were approaching o…
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    The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets any thing you please to call them on the first floor. The Turks sit cross-le…
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    There is one paper published here in the English language The Levant Herald and there are generally a number of Greek and a few French pape…
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    I have not felt so much at home for a long time as I did when I “raised the hill” and stood in Odessa for the first time. It looked just li…
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    The sea has been unusually rough all day. However, we have had a lively time of it, anyhow. We have had quite a run of visitors. The Govern…
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    It is painful it is even humiliating but I am reduced at last to one slender theory: that the oysters climbed up there of their own accord.…
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    We sailed from Smyrna, in the wildest spirit of expectancy, for the chief feature, the grand goal of the expedition, was near at hand we we…
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    At eleven o'clock, our eyes fell upon the walls and columns of Baalbec, a noble ruin whose history is a sealed book. It has stood there for…
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    The narrow streets swarmed like a hive with men and women in strange Oriental costumes, and our small donkeys knocked them right and left a…
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    The little children were in a pitiable condition they all had sore eyes, and were otherwise afflicted in various ways. They say that hardly…
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    It is seven in the morning, and as we are in the country, the grass ought to be sparkling with dew, the flowers enriching the air with thei…
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    We had left Capernaum behind us. It was only a shapeless ruin. It bore no semblance to a town, and had nothing about it to suggest that it…
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    I am sure, from the tenor of books I have read, that many who have visited this land in years gone by, were Presbyterians, and came seeking…
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    We descended from Mount Tabor, crossed a deep ravine, followed a hilly, rocky road to Nazareth distant two hours. All distances in the East…
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    They imposed another pirate upon us at Nazareth another invincible Arab guard. We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewash…
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    Joshua gave his dying injunction to the children of Israel at Shechem, and buried a valuable treasure secretly under an oak tree there abou…
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    The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to disc…
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    This rock, large as it is, is suspended in the air. It does not touch any thing at all. The guide said so. This is very wonderful. In the p…
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    We reached the famous river before four o'clock, and the night was so black that we could have ridden into it without seeing it. Some of us…
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    For description of Jaffa, see Universal Gazetteer. Simon the Tanner formerly lived here. We went to his house. All the pilgrims visit Simon…
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    On the island at our right was the machine they call the Nilometer, a stone-column whose business it is to mark the rise of the river and p…
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    We were glad to have seen the land which was the mother of civilization which taught Greece her letters, and through Greece Rome, and throu…
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    And then we went to see the Emperor of Russia. We just called on him as comfortably as if we had known him a century or so, and when we had…