THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
Volume 4, Chapters 31 to 40
by Mark Twain
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 beenUnoccupied for Eighteen hundred years—The Judgment Seat—Desolation—TheFootprints of the Departed—"No Women Admitted"—Theatres, Bakeshops,Schools—Skeletons preserved by the Ashes and Cinders—The Brave Martyrto Duty—Rip Van Winkle—The Perishable Nature of Fame
CHAPTER XXXII.
At Sea Once More—The Pilgrims all Well—Superb Stromboli—Sicily byMoonlight—Scylla and Charybdis—The "Oracle" at Fault—Skirting theIsles of Greece Ancient Athens—Blockaded by Quarantine and RefusedPermission to Enter—Running the Blockade—A Bloodless MidnightAdventure—Turning Robbers from Necessity—Attempt to Carry the Acropolisby Storm—We Fail—Among the Glories of the Past—A World of RuinedSculpture—A Fairy Vision—Famous Localities—Retreating in GoodOrder—Captured by the Guards—Travelling in Military State—Safe on BoardAgain
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Modern Greece—Fallen Greatness—Sailing Through the Archipelago and theDardanelles—Footprints of History—The First Shoddy Contractor of whomHistory gives any Account—Anchored Before Constantinople—FantasticFashions—The Ingenious Goose-Rancher—Marvelous Cripples—The GreatMosque—The Thousand and One Columns—The Grand Bazaar of Stamboul
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Scarcity of Morals and Whiskey—Slave-Girl Market Report—CommercialMorality at a Discount—The Slandered Dogs ofConstantinople—Questionable Delights of Newspaperdom