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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD BY TWAIN, Part 4
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Innocents Abroad, Part 4 of 6 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: The Innocents Abroad, Part 4 of 6 Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Release Date: June 15, 2004 [EBook #5691] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, PART 4 OF 6 ***
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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
Volume 4, Chapters 31 to 40
by Mark Twain
[Cover and Spine from the 1884 Edition]
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
by Mark Twain
[From an 1869—1st Edition]
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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 ...

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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD BY TWAIN, Part 4

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Innocents Abroad, Part 4 of 6
by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Innocents Abroad, Part 4 of 6
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Release Date: June 15, 2004 [EBook #5691]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, PART 4 OF 6 ***

Produced by David Widger

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

Volume 4, Chapters 31 to 40

by Mark Twain

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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

by Mark Twain

[From an 1869—1st Edition]

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1 THE QUAKER CITY IN A STORM—FRONTPIECE
2 ILLUMINATED TITLE-PAGE-THE PILGRIM'S VISION
120 RUINS, POMPEII
121 FORUM OF JUSTICE, POMPEII
122 HOUSE; POMPEII
123 STROMBOLI
124 VIEW OF THE ACROPOLIS, LOOKING WEST
125 "HO"
126 THE ASSAULT
127 THE CARYATIDES
128 THE PARTHENON
129 WE SIDLED, NOT RAN
130 ANCIENT ACROPOLIS
131 RUINS
132 QUEEN OF GREECE
133 PALACE AT ATHENS
134 STREET SCENE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
135 GOOSE RANCHER
136 MOSQUE of ST. SOPHIA
137 TURKISH MAUSOLEUM
138 SLANDERED DOGS
139 THE CENSOR ON DUTY
140 TURKISH BATH
141 FAR-AWAY-MOSES
142 A FRAGMENT
143 A MEMENTO
144 YALTA FROM THE EMPERORS PALACE
145 EMPEROR OF RUSSIA
146 TINSEL KING
147 SHIP EMPEROR
148 THE RECEPTION
149 STREET SCENE IN SMYRNA
150 SMYRNA
151 AN APPARENT SUCCESS
152 DRIFTING TO STARBOARD
153 A SPOILED NAP
154 ANCIENT AMPHITHEATER AT EPHESUS
155 MODERN AMPHITHEATRE AT EPHESUS
156 RUINS OF EPHESUS
157 THE JOURNEY
158 GRAVES OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS

CHAPTER XXXI.

THE BURIED CITY OF POMPEII
They pronounce it Pom-pay-e. I always had an idea that you went down into
Pompeii with torches, by the way of damp, dark stairways, just as you do in
silver mines, and traversed gloomy tunnels with lava overhead and something
on either hand like dilapidated prisons gouged out of the solid earth, that faintly
resembled houses. But you do nothing the kind. Fully one-half of the buried
city, perhaps, is completely exhumed and thrown open freely to the light of day;
and there stand the long rows of solidly-built brick houses (roofless) just as they
stood eighteen hundred years ago, hot with the flaming sun; and there lie their
floors, clean-swept, and not a bright fragment tarnished or waiting of the
labored mosaics that pictured them with the beasts, and birds, and flowers
which we copy in perishable carpets to-day; and here are the Venuses, and
Bacchuses, and Adonises, making love and getting drunk in many-hued
frescoes on the walls of saloon and bed-chamber; and there are the narrow
streets and narrower sidewalks, paved with flags of good hard lava, the one
deeply rutted with the chariot-wheels, and the other with the passing feet of the
Pompeiians of by-gone centuries; and there are the bake-shops, the temples,
the halls of justice, the baths, the theatres—all clean-scraped and neat, and
suggesting nothing of the nature of a silver mine away down in the bowels of
the earth. The broken pillars lying about, the doorless doorways and the
crumbled tops of the wilderness of walls, were wonderfully suggestive of the
"burnt district" in one of our cities, and if there had been any charred timbers,
shattered windows, heaps of debris, and general blackness and smokiness
about the place, the resemblance would have been perfect. But no—the sun
shines as brightly down on old Pompeii to-day as it did when Christ was born in
Bethlehem, and its streets are cleaner a hundred times than ever Pompeiian
saw them in her prime. I know whereof I speak—for in the great, chief
thoroughfares (Merchant street and the Street of Fortune) have I not seen with
my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not
repaired!—how ruts five and even ten inches deep were worn into the thick
flagstones by the chariot-wheels of generations of swindled tax-payers? And do
I not know by these signs that Street Commissioners of Pompeii never attended
to their business, and that if they never mended the pavements they never
cleaned them? And, besides, is it not the inborn nature of Street
Commissioners to avoid their duty whenever they get a chance? I wish I knew
the name of the last one that held office in Pompeii so that I could give him a
blast. I speak with feeling on this subject, because I caught my foot in one of
those ruts, and the sadness that came over me when I saw the first poor
skeleton, with ashes and lava sticking to it, was tempered by the reflection that
may be that party was the Street Commissioner.