Jaffa

Palestine's main Mediterranean seaport, the Quaker City anchored here from September 16 to 30, 1867.


See Bædeker (1898) Route 2 Jaffa page 6

See Bædeker (1876) Route 1 Yâfa page 127


Murray Route 18 page 287

Budapest, Hungary

Mark Twain wrote about Hungary in his essay Stirring Times in Austria, published in Harper's Magazine, March 1898.  He spent a week in Budapest in March of 1899 and gave a speech in honor of the jubilee celebration of the liberation of the Hungarian press, published as "German for the Hungarians."

Heidelberg, Germany

May 5 or May 6 Monday – The Clemens family arrived in Heidelberg, Germany and stayed at the beautiful Schloss Hotel, which overlooked the old castle with its forest setting, the flowing Neckar River, and the distant valley of the Rhine. https://daybyday.marktwainstudies.com/vol-1-section-0036/ Vol 1 Section 0036 – Mark Twain Day By Day

The family returned to Heidelberg for a week in August and September of 1891, before moving to Switzerland.


See Bædeker The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance, 1873 page 176

Greece

The Quaker City sailed through the Greek Islands August 13-17, 1867.  It stopped at the harbor of Athens August 14-15, during which Twain broke quarantine to visit the Acropolis.  

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