• 8 June QC   left the Manhattan wharf, 2:00 p.m., but soon anchored in Gravesend Bay, off Brooklyn.
  • 10 June QC departed Gravesend Bay, 12:30 p.m.
  • 21 June QC arrived at Horta, island of Fayal, Azores, in the morning.
  • 23 June QC departed Horta, 11:00 a.m.
  • 29 June QC arrived at Gibraltar, 10:00 a.m.
  • 30 June SLC and companions took a steamer to Tangier.
  • 1 July SLC and companions returned from Tangier to Gibraltar in time for the QC’s 6:00 p.m. departure.
  • 4 July QC arrived at Marseilles, 7:00 p.m.
  • 5 July SLC and companions departed Marseilles for Paris by an evening train.
  • 6 July SLC and companions arrived in Paris in the evening.
  • 11 July SLC and companions departed Paris for Marseilles by a morning train.
  • 12 July SLC and companions arrived in Marseilles in the morning.
  • 13 July QC departed Marseilles at noon.
  • 14 July QC arrived at Genoa, 6:00 a.m.
  • 16 July SLC and companions5 departed Genoa by train, arriving in Milan that evening.
  • 18 July SLC and companions traveled by train from Milan to Como, then by steamer to Bellagio on Lake Como.
  • 20 July SLC and companions traveled by steamer from Bellagio to Leco, departing Lecco by carriage, 1:00 p.m., for Bergamo, where they caught the train, passing through Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua, and arriving in Venice, 8:00 p.m.
  • 22 July SLC and companions departed Venice by train, passing through Bologna and Pistoia overnight.
  • 23 July SLC and companions arrived in Florence; QC departed Genoa, 7:00 p.m.
  • 24 July QC arrived at Leghorn, 7:00 a.m.
  • ?25 July SLC and companions departed Florence on the noon train for Pisa, where they spent two hours; they arrived at Leghorn in the evening and boarded the ship.
  • ?26 July SLC and companions, to avoid being quarantined on the QC at Naples, took a French steamer to Civitavecchia, then a train to Rome, arriving the following evening.
  • 31 July QC departed Leghorn, 9:00 a.m.
  • 1 Aug SLC and companions probably departed Rome for Naples by train; QC arrived at Naples, where it was quarantined for a week.
  • 7 Aug SLC and companions6 departed Naples in the morning for two days on the island of Ischia.
  • 9 Aug SLC and companions returned from Ischia to Naples in the morning; at midnight SLC and companions7 departed for Mt. Vesuvius.
  • 10 Aug SLC and companions visited Capri by chartered steamer.
  • 11 Aug QC departed Naples, 8:00 a.m.
  • 14 Aug QC arrived at Piraeus at noon, but the passengers did not disembark; SLC and companions defied the quarantine and visited Athens that night.
  • 15 Aug QC departed Piraeus at noon.
  • 17 Aug QC arrived at Constantinople at daybreak.
  • 19 Aug QC departed Constantinople, 1:00 p.m.
  • 21 Aug QC arrived at Sevastopol, 5:00 a.m., and departed again at 9:00 p.m.
  • 22 Aug QC arrived at Odessa, 4:00 p.m.
  • 24 Aug QC departed Odessa, 11:00 a.m.
  • 25 Aug QC arrived at Yalta at noon.
  • 26 Aug QC party, including SLC, visited Tsar Aleksandr II and family.
  • 28 Aug QC departed Yalta, 8:00 p.m.
  • 30 Aug QC arrived at Constantinople, at daybreak.
  • 3 Sept QC party, probably including SLC, visited Scutari during the day; QC departed Constantinople, 10:00 p.m.
  • 5 Sept QC arrived at Smyrna, 10:00 a.m.
  • 6 Sept Large QC party, including SLC, visited Ephesus during the day; QC departed Smyrna, 11:00 p.m.
  • 10 Sept QC arrived at Beirut before daylight.
  • 11 Sept SLC and companions departed Beirut on horseback, 3:00 p.m., camping that night ten or twelve miles east of the city.
  • 12 Sept SLC and companions broke camp, 6:30 a.m., and stayed that night in the Lebanon valley at Temnin el Foka, near Zahlah, about two-thirds of the way between Beirut and Baalbek.
  • 13 Sept SLC and companions broke camp, 6:30 a.m., visited Baalbek, returned south, and camped that night at Sirghāyā.
  • 14 Sept SLC and companions arrived in Damascus at sunset.
  • 15 Sept QC departed Beirut at midnight.
  • 16 Sept SLC and companions departed Damascus at noon, camping that night at Kefr Hauwar; QC arrived at Mt. Carmel, 10:00 a.m., and departed again at noon, arriving at Jaffa (now part of Tel Aviv), 8:00 p.m.
  • 17 Sept SLC and companions departed Kefr Hauwar in the morning and camped that night at Baniyas, formerly the ancient city of Caesarea Philippi.
  • 18 Sept SLC and companions departed Baniyas, 7:15 a.m., and camped that night at Ain Mellahah, near Lake Huleh (now called Bahret el Hule).
  • 19 Sept SLC and companions departed Ain Mellahah, 7:00 a.m., and camped that night at Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee.
  • 20 Sept SLC and companions departed Tiberias in the morning and camped that night at Nazareth.
  • 21 Sept SLC and companions departed Nazareth, 7:30 a.m., and camped that night at Janīn.
  • 22 Sept SLC and companions departed Janīn, 2:00 a.m., and camped that night at Lubban.
  • 23 Sept SLC and companions departed Lubban, 2:30 a.m., and reached Jerusalem at noon.
  • 25 Sept SLC and companions departed Jerusalem, 8:00 a.m., for a two-day side trip, camping that night near Jericho.
  • 26 Sept SLC and companions departed Jericho, 2:00 a.m., visited the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, camping that night at Mar Saba.
  • 27 Sept SLC and companions departed Mar Saba, 3:00 a.m., visited Bethlehem and returned to Jerusalem at noon.
  • 29 Sept SLC and companions departed Jerusalem, 3:00 p.m., reaching Ramla in the evening.
  • 30 Sept SLC and companions departed Ramla in the morning and, after three hours, arrived at Jaffa and boarded the ship.
  • 1 Oct QC departed Jaffa, 7:30 a.m.
  • 2 Oct QC arrived at Alexandria at sunset.
  • 4 Oct SLC and companions12 departed Alexandria by train, 4:00 p.m., arriving in Cairo late that evening.
  • 5 Oct SLC and companions departed Cairo on donkeys, early in the morning, to visit the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza, returning to Cairo that night.
  • 7 Oct SLC and companions departed Cairo for Alexandria and boarded the ship; QC departed Alexandria, 5:00 p.m.
  • 13 Oct QC arrived at Cagliari, island of Sardinia, 9:00 p.m.; departed at midnight without disembarking passengers.
  • 15 Oct QC arrived at Algiers, 3:30 p.m.; departed, 5:30 p.m., without disembarking passengers.
  • 17 Oct QC arrived at Málaga, 1:00 p.m.; departed, 4:00 p.m., without disembarking passengers, and arrived at Gibraltar, 11:00 p.m.
  • 18 Oct SLC and companions departed Gibraltar at noon, traveling overnight by horseback and carriage to Algeciras, Vejer, and San Fernando.
  • 19 Oct SLC and companions boarded the 4:00 p.m. train for Seville, arriving at midnight.
  • 22 Oct SLC and companions traveled by train to Córdoba.
  • 23 Oct SLC and companions returned by 9:00 a.m. train to Seville; departed Seville for Cádiz, stopping briefly in Jerez.
  • 24 Oct SLC and companions arrived in Cádiz; QC departed Gibraltar, 6:00 p.m.
  • 25 Oct QC arrived at Cádiz, 7:30 a.m.; SLC and companions boarded at 10:30, and QC departed Cádiz, 11:00 a.m.
  • 28 Oct QC arrived at Funchal, island of Madeira, at noon; departed, 8:00 p.m., without disembarking passengers.
  • 11 Nov QC arrived at St. George, Bermuda, at daybreak.
  • 15 Nov QC departed St. George, 8:00 a.m.
  • 19 Nov QC arrived at New York City, 10:00 a.m.

(Mark Twain Project)

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