MARK TWAIN

HERO OF MY CHILDHOOD

INSPIRATION OF MY YOUTH

FRIEND OF THESE LATER YEARS

CONTENTS

I[The Book, and the Dream]
II[In the Track of the Innocents]
III[Days at Sea]
IV[We Become History]
V[Introducing the Reprobates]
VI[A Land of Heart's Desire]
VII[A Day to Ourselves]
VIII[Out of the Sunrise]
IX[Early Mediterranean Experiences]
X[The Diverting Story of Algiers]
XI[We Enter the Orient]
XII[We Touch at Genoa]
XIII[Malta, a Land of Yesterday]
XIV[A Sunday at Sea]
XV[A Port of Missing Dreams]
XVI[Athens that Is]
XVII[Into the Dardanelles]
XVIII[A City of Illusion]
XIX[The Turk and Some of His Phases]
XX[Abdul Hamid Goes to Prayer]
XXI[Looking Down on Yildiz]
XXII[Ephesus: the City that Was]
XXIII[Into Syria]
XXIV[The House that Cain Built]
XXV[Going Down to Damascus]
XXVI[The "Pearl of the East"]
XXVII[Footprints of Paul]
XXVIII[Discontented Pilgrims]
XXIX[Damascus, the Garden Beautiful]
XXX[Where Pilgrims Gather In]
XXXI[The Holy City]
XXXII[The Holy Sepulchre]
XXXIII[Two Holy Mountains]
XXXIV[The Little Town of the Manger]
XXXV[The Sorrow of the Chosen—The Way of the Cross]
XXXVI[At the Mouth of the Nile]
XXXVII[The Smile of the Sphinx]
XXXVIII[Ways that Are Egyptian]
XXXIX[Where History Began]
XL[Karnak and Luxor]
XLI[The Still Valley of the Kings]
XLII[The Highway of Egypt]
XLIII[Other Ways that Are Egyptian]
XLIV[Sakkara and the Sacred Bulls]
XLV[A Visit with Rameses II]
XLVI[The Long Way Home]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[WE CHANGED OUR MINDS ABOUT BEING WILLING TO SAIL PAST]
[TO ME IT WAS ALL TRUE, ALL ROMANCE—ALL POETRY]
[SOMEBODY SENT ME A BASKET OF FRUIT]
[THEY ARE AN ATTRACTIVE LOT—THE REPROBATES]
[GAVE HIM THE "ICY MITT"]
[THEY COULD DIVE LIKE SEALS]
[TWO MEN TAKE YOU IN HAND, AND AWAY YOU GO]
[DID A SORT OF FANDAROLE]
[THEN IT DAWNED UPON THE DIPLOMAT]
[BUT NOW GIBRALTAR, THE CROUCHING LION OF TRAFALGAR, HAD RISEN FROM THE SEA]
[WE COULD HAVE LISTENED ALL NIGHT TO BEÑUNES]
["THAT IS THE KASBA"]
[ONE DOES NOT HURRY THE ORIENT—ONE WAITS ON IT]
[MARVELLOUS BASKETS AND QUEER THINGS]
[WE DID NOT CARE MUCH FOR PARKS]
[ETERNALLY EAST WITH NO HINT OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD]
[TWO BENT, WRINKLED WOMEN WEAVING LACE OUTSIDE THE DOOR]
[WE LOOKED ACROSS THE ENTRANCE AND THERE ROSE THE ACROPOLIS, HIGH AGAINST THE BLUE]
[HE WOULD SWING HIS ARMS AND BEGIN, "YOU SEE—!" THE REST REQUIRED A MIND-READER]
[I WOULD HAVE APPLIED FOR THE POSITION IN THE CHORUS MYSELF]
[TOOK TURNS ADDRESSING THE MULTITUDE]
[ONE'S AGE, STATED ON OATH, GOES WITH A PASSPORT]
[KEYEFF]
[I WANTED TO CARRY AWAY ONE OF THOSE TOMBSTONES]
[ALL THE PLAINS AND SLOPES OF THE OLD CITY, WITH ITS WHITE FRAGMENTS AND POOR RUINED HARBOR, LAY AT OUR FEET]
[FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, BAALBEC BECAME A PLACE OF ALTARS]
[SO THE PATRIARCHS JOURNEYED; SO, TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER, JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVELLED INTO EGYPT]
[URGING US TO PARTAKE OF THE PRECIOUS STUFF, WITHOUT STINT]
[ASKED HIM IF HE WOULDN'T EXECUTE A LITTLE COMMISSION FOR ME IN THE BAZAARS]
[THE PATRIARCH KNEW ALL ABOUT JAFFA]
[JERUSALEM—ITS BUBBLE-ROOFED HOUSES AND DOMES, ITS CYPRESS AND OLIVE TREES]
[A CAMEL TRAIN LED THE WAY THROUGH THE GATES]
[THE DEPTH OF THEIR FALL]
[THE WAY OF THE CROSS]
[THE TRUE GOLGOTHA—THE PLACE OF THE SKULL]
[A VAST INDIFFERENCE TO ALL PUNY THINGS]
[SANCTUARY IN KARNAK]
[GADDIS]
[I MADE A PICTURE OF THE FLY-BRUSH BRIGADE]
[ITS MAGNIFICENT PYLONS OR ENTRANCE WALLS ... AND THEN ONCE MORE WE WERE ON THE DONKEYS]
[THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR ... ONCE MORE REFLECTING ITS COLUMNS IN THE NILE]
[THINK OF WATERING A WHOLE WHEAT-FIELD WITH A WELL-SWEEP AND A PAIL]
[GOT IT MADE CHEAP SOMEWHERE, WITH HER PICTURE CARVED ON THE FRONT OF IT]
[SET OUT ON THE LONG, STEADY, ATLANTIC SWING]