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September 3 Tuesday – QC passengers, including Sam, visited Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople,
during the day; QC departed Constantinople at 10 PM.
WE returned to Constantinople, and after a day or two spent in exhausting marches about the city and
voyages up the Golden Horn in caiques, we steamed away again. We passed through the Sea of
Marmora and the Dardanelles, and steered for a new land—a new one to us, at least—Asia. We had as
yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the
regions round about.
We passed between Lemnos and Mytilene, and saw them as we had seen Elba and the Balearic Isles—
mere bulky shapes, with the softening mists of distance upon them—whales in a fog, as it were. Then
we held our course southward, and began to “read up” celebrated Smyrna [IA Ch. 38].

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.