Be sure to read the section in the newspaper clipping on "Cheerful Bathing". This portion was omitted from the book, and is thus not part of the recording. But it is of interest.

Far-Away Moses is rather an interesting individual. I did a search on him and found this:

from Making a Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

This chapter may be considered rather politically incorrect. He rails at what he sees as a lack of morals amongst the Moors, citing the slave-girl situation and the sultans harem. He even provides what would be a market report for this trade if it occurred in the United States. The chapter also notes the lose of two of his preconceived notions of the Orient, the dogs of Constantinople and the luxury of a Turkish bath.

Mark Twain and the pilgrims are all back on board the Quaker City, depart Naples, and head for Greece. They arrive at the harbor of Piraeus and are told they will be in quarantine for eleven days or they must leave. It is a great disappointment to the passengers to miss Athens and several attempt to break the quarantine. They slip ashore during the night. Twain makes the run to the Acropolis with three others and view Athens from above in the moonlight. They make it back to the ship followed by dogs and various grape growers with muskets.

This chapter has been produced using a different video software program, Openshot. This is an improvement for me because it allows a video preview synced with the audio. Previously I've always had to calculate the start and end times for clips by following the text while playing the audio in audacity. This program also allows me to combine video clips with still images. Technically I could do that with PiTiVi but the results often failed during export. Anyway, chapter 31 is Mark Twain's visit to Pompeii.

Mark Twain finds fault with the Neapolitan people but appreciates Naples from a distance, from the side of Mt Vesuvius.

Mark Twain and a few other of the Pilgrims had decided not to sail to Naples aboard the Quaker City as they knew it would be put in quarantine there. They took the train from Rome. While the quarantine existed they enjoyed teasing those stuck aboard. Along with this amusement they frolicked on the island of Ischia, climbed Mt Vesuvius and visited the opera. In this chapter he is quite critical of the peoples of Naples and of a town he calls Annunciation, at the foot of Mt Vesuvius, although I can find no reference to this town.

The pilgrims visit the rather macabre Capuchin Crypt, wherein the bones of deceased monks of the order are used as a sort of sculptures. It is said they are not meant tio be macabre but as " a silent reminder of the swift passage of life on Earth.". Twain also remarks that there are few art works of historical events in Rome, except for the Rape of the Sabines. This is my second attempt to use Blip.tv as a platform for serving the video slide shows. It should be automatically linked to a YouTube version as well.

I've switched to a new video service, blip.tv. It's my hope that it will provide a wider promotion field for these videos. This particular chapter contains a story from Twain's Roughing It days about a young lawyer named Oliver. We also learn of the strategy employed by our pilgrims in dealing with tour guides, also known as the Fergusons.