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Via

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

In the Clerk's Office of the District of Connecticut

Copyright, 1897 and 1899

THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Hartford, Conn.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

The Capuchin Convent — A Festive Company of the Dead - The

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Great Vatican Museum

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- Papal Protection of Art-Scale of

Rank of the Holy Personages in Rome.

CHAPTER II.

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Naples― Annunciation — Ascent of Mount Vesuvius — Monkish

Miracles - The Stranger and the Hackman-Night View of

Naples from Mountain -

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Ascent of Vesuvius Continued

CHAPTER III.

Ascent of Vesuvius Continued

-Celebrated Localities in the Bay of

Naples - Petrified Sea of Lava-The Ascent Continued-

The Summit Reached-The Crater - Descent of Vesuvius

CHAPTER IV.

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The Buried City of Pompeii - The Judgment Seat - Desolation -

Footprints of the Departed-Skeletons Preserved by the Ashes

-The Brave Martyr to Duty-The Perishable Nature of Fame 43

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CHAPTER V.

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Stromboli - Sicily by Moonlight — Skirting the Isles of Greece-

Athens - The Acropolis-Among the Glories of the Past -

A World of Ruined Sculpture-Famous Localities

Modern Greece -The Archipelago and the Dardanelles — Foot-

prints of History - Constantinople—Great Mosque - The

Thousand and One Columns · Grand Bazaar of Stamboul. 75

Scarcity of Morals and Whisky — Slave-Girl Market Report

The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople — No More Turkish

Lunches Desired - The Turkish Bath Fraud .

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CHAPTER VIII.

Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea-"Far-Away Moses "

Melancholy Sebastopol - Hospitably Received in Russia —

Relic Hunting-- How Travelers Form "Cabinets"

CHAPTER IX.

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Nine Thousand Miles East-Imitation American Town in Russia

Gratitude that Came Too Late-To Visit the Autocrat of

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Summer Home of Royalty — Reception by the Emperor - At the

Grand Duke's-A Charming Villa - The Governor-General's

Visit to the Ship-Aristocratic Visitors

CHAPTER XI.

Return to Constantinople—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Vis-

itors-Ancient Smyrna - The "Oriental Splendor" Fraud-

Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans-Sociable Armenian Girls

CHAPTER XII.

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Smyrna's Lions-The Martyr Polycarp-The "Seven Churches"

– Remains of the Six Smyrnas — Mysterious Oyster Mine—

A Millerite Tradition - A Railroad Out of its Sphere

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CHAPTER XIII.

Journeying toward Ancient Ephesus-Ancient Ayassalook-The

Villainous Donkey Fantastic Procession

- Bygone Magnifi-

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cence - Fragments of History—Legend of Seven Sleepers 156

CHAPTER XIV.

Approaching Holy Land! - The " Shrill Note of Preparation

The "Long Route " Adopted-In Syria-Something about

Beirout - Outfits- Hideous Horseflesh- Pilgrim "Style". 169

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CHAPTER XV.

"Jacksonville," in the Mountains of Lebanon -The Peculiar

Steed, "Jericho "-The Pilgrim's Progress - Bible Scenes,

Mount Hermon, Joshua's Battlefields, etc.-Tomb of Noah

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CHAPTER XVI.

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Patriarchal Customs — Magnificent Baalbec― Description of Ruins
Scribbling Smiths and Joneses Pilgrim Fidelity to the

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Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Balaam's Ass. 188