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Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims Progress.
Title:
Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims Progress.
Author:
Twain, Mark.
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1 online resource (674 pages)
Contents:
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD -- PREFACE. -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- THE QUAKER CITY IN A STORM -- ILLUMINATED TITLE-PAGE-THE PILGRIM'S VISION -- "I 'LL PAY YOU IN PARIS" -- THE START -- "GOOD MORNING‚ SIR" -- THE OLD PIRATE -- DANCING UNDER DIFFICULTIES -- THE MOCK TRIAL -- "LAND, HO!" -- THE CAPOTE -- RUIN AND DESOLATION -- PORT OF HORTA, FAYAL (FULL PAGE) -- "SEKKI-YAH!" -- BEAUTIFUL STRANGER -- ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (FULL PAGE) -- "QUEEN'S CHAIR" -- THE ORACLE -- THE INTERROGATION POINT -- GARRISON AT MALABAT -- ENTERTAINING AN ANGEL -- VIEW OF A STREET IN TANGIER -- CHANGE FOR A NAPOLEON -- THE CONSUL'S FAMILY -- "POET LARIAT" -- FIRST SUPPER IN FRANCE -- POINTING -- RINGING FOR SOAP -- "WINE, SIR!" -- THE PILGRIM -- THE PRISONER -- HOMELESS FRANCE (FULL PAGE) -- RAILROAD OFFICIAL IN FRANCE -- "FIVE MINUTES FOR REFRESHMENTS ." AMERICA -- "THIRTY MINUTES FOR DINNER." FRANCE -- THE OLD TRAVELLER -- A DECIDED SHAVE -- A GAS-TLY SUBSTITUTE -- THE THREE GUIDES -- "ZE SILK MAGAZIN" -- RETURN IN WAR PAINT -- NAPOLEON III -- ABDUL AZIZ -- THE MORGUE -- WE TOOK A WALK -- THE CAN-CAN -- GRAVES OF ABELARD AND HELOISE -- A PAIR OF CANONS OF 13TH CENTURY -- THE PRIVATE MARRIAGE -- AMERICAN DRINKS -- ROYAL HONORS TO A YANKEE -- THE GRISETTE -- FOUNTAIN AT VERSAILLES -- WOMEN OF GENOA -- PETRIFIED LACKEY -- PRIEST AND FRIAR -- STATUE OF COLUMBUS -- GRAVES OF SIXTY THOUSAND -- ROOF AND SPIRES OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN (FULL PAGE) -- CENTRAL DOOR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN -- INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN -- BOYHOOD'S EXPERIENCE -- TREASURES OF THE CATHEDRAL -- CATHEDRAL AT MILAN -- LA SCALA THEATRE -- COPYING FROM OLD MASTERS -- FACIAL EXPRESSION -- THE ECHO -- NOTE BOOK -- A KISS FOR A FRANC -- THE FUMIGATION -- LAKE COMO -- GARDEN, LAKE COMO (FULL PAGE) -- SOCIAL DRIVER -- WAYSIDE SHRINE -- PEACE AND HAPPINESS -- CASTLE OF COUNT LUIGI -- THE WICKED BROTHER.

DISGUSTED GONDOLIER -- CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARK -- THE PEG -- "GOOD-BY" -- M'SIEUR GOR-R-DONG -- MONUMENT TO THE DOGE -- ST. MARK. BY THE OLD MASTERS -- ST. MATTHEW . BY THE OLD MASTERS -- ST. JEROME. BY THE OLD MASTERS -- ST. SEBASTIAN. BY THE OLD MASTERS -- ST. UNKNOWN. BY THE OLD MASTERS -- RAILTO BRIDGE -- BRIDGE OF SIGHS -- FLORENCE -- THE PENSIONER -- "I WANT TO GO HOME" -- THE LEANING TOWER -- THE CONTRAST -- ITALIAN PASTIMES -- INCENDIARY DOCUMENT -- A ROMAN OF 1869 -- MAMERTINE PRISON -- OLD ROMAN -- COLISEUM OF ANCIENT ROME -- DID NOT COMPLAIN -- HUMBOLDT HOUSE -- DAN -- BRONZE STATUE -- PENMANSHIP -- ON A BUST -- VAULTS OF THE CONVENT -- DRIED CONVENT FRUITS -- AT THE STORE -- AT HOME -- SOOTHING THE PILGRIMS -- ASCENT OF MT. VESUVIUS -- BAY OF NAPLES -- THE MUSTANG -- ISLAND OF CAPRI -- BLUE GROTTO -- VESUVIUS AND BAY OF NAPLES -- THE DESCENT -- RUINS, POMPEH -- FORUM OF JUSTICE, POMPEH -- HOUSE, POMPEH -- STROMBOLI -- VIEW OF THE ACROPOLIS . LOOKING WEST -- "HO!" -- THE ASSAULT -- THE CARYATIDES -- THE PARTHENON (FULL PAGE) -- WE SIDLED, NOT RAN -- ANCIENT ACROPOLIS -- TAIL PIECE, RUINS -- QUEEN OF GREECE -- PALACE AT ATHENS -- STREET SCENE IN CONSTANTINOPLE (FULL PAGE) -- GOOSE RANCHER -- MOSQUE OF ST. SOPHIA -- TURKISH MAUSOLEUM -- SLANDERED DOGS -- THE CENSOR ON DUTY -- TURKISH BATH -- FAR-AWAY-MOSES -- A FRAGMENT -- TAIL-PIECE-A MEMENTO -- YALTA FROM THE EMPEROR'S PALACE -- EMPEROR OF RUSSIA -- TINSEL KING -- SHIP EMPEROR -- THE RECEPTION -- STREET SCENE IN SMYRNA -- SMYRNA -- AN APPARENT SUCCESS -- DRIFTING TO STARBOARD -- A SPOILED NAP -- ANCIENT AMPHITHEATRE AT EPHESUS -- MODERN AMPHITHEATRE AT EPHESUS -- RUINS OF EPHESUS -- THE JOURNEY -- GRAVES OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS -- THE SELECTION -- CAMPING OUT -- TAIL PIECE-ARABS' TENTS -- A GOOD FEEDER -- INTERESTING FETE -- SUNDAY SCHOOL GRAPES -- AN OLD FOGY -- RACE WITH A CAMEL.

TEMPLE OF THE SUN -- RUINS OF BAALBEC -- HEWN STONES IN QUARRY -- MERCY -- PATRON SAINT -- WATER CARRIER -- VIEW OF DAMASCUS , (FULL PAGE) -- STREET CARS OF DAMASCUS -- FULL DRESSED TOURIST -- IMPROMPTU HOSPITAL -- THE HORSE "BAALBEC" -- OAK OF BASHAN -- DANGEROUS ARAB -- GRIMES ON THE WAR-PATH -- TAIL-PIECE-BEDOUIN CAMP -- HOME OF ANCIENT POMP -- JACK -- A DISAPPOINTED AUDIENCE -- FIG-TREE -- "FARE TOO HIGH" -- SYRIAN HOUSE -- TIBERIAS AND SEA OF GALILEE -- THE GUARD -- MOUNT TABOR -- TAIL-PIECE-GATHERING FUEL -- FOUNTAIN OF THE VIRGIN -- "MADONNA-LIKE BEAUTY" -- PUTNAM OUTDONE -- THE BASTINADO -- "I WEPT" -- WANT OF DIGNITY -- AN ORIENTAL WELL -- ARABS SALUTING -- FREE SONS OF THE DESERT -- SHECHEM -- TAIL PIECE-GATE OF JERUSALEM -- BEGGARS IN JERUSALEM -- CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE -- GRAVE OF ADAM -- VIEW OF JERUSALEM (FULL PAGE), -- THE WANDERING JEW -- MOSQUE OF OMAR -- AN EPIDEMIC -- CHARGE ON BEDOUINS -- DEAD SEA -- GROTTO OF THE NATIVITY (FULL PAGE) -- JAFFA (FULL PAGE) -- REAR ELEVATION OF JACK -- STREET IN ALEXANDRIA -- VICEROY OF EGYPT -- EASTERN MONARCH -- MOSES S. BEACH -- ROOM No. 15 -- THE NILOMETER -- ASCENT OF THE PYRAMIDS -- HIGH HOPES FRUSTRATED -- KING'S CHAMBER IN THE PYRAMID , (FULL PAGE) -- A POWERFUL ARGUMENT -- PYRAMIDS AND SPHYNX, (FULL PAGE) -- THE RELIC HUNTER -- THE MAMELUKE'S LEAP -- WOULD NOT BE COMFORTED -- TAIL PIECE, THE TRAVELER -- HOMEWARD BOUND -- BAD COFFEE -- OUR FRIENDS THE BERMUDIANS -- CAPTAIN DUNCAN -- TAIL PIECE, FINIS -- 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 -- At Sea at Last -- CHAPTER III. -- "Averaging" the Passengers -- "Far, far at Sea".

Tribulation among the Patriachs -- 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-Ho" -- 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 -- Jesuit Humbuggery -- 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 Caverms -- 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'hôte -- "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." -- CHAPTER 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 Minutes 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 Outrageous 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.

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