The crew of the Quaker City has some fun at the expense of the pilgrims, conducting parodies of the meeting with Alexander II. They sail from Constantinople to Smyrna, modern day Izmir. This is where journalist, writer, and adventurer Ian Strathcarron picks up the scent. He has written a book, Innocence and War Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited, After an extended prologue on the making of Mark Twain and how he found himself on the Quaker City Excursion Strathcarron joins the route, moored in the harbor of Izmir. I expect to insert comments derived from Innocence and War as we proceed with the chapters of The Innocents Abroad. I had hoped to be able to clip portions of Strathcarron's book but that will not be possible. My copy is in Amazon's Cloud Reader which does not allow cutting and pasting nor even printing. I'll have to proceed the old fashioned way and actually type in passages that seem important.