• Darjeeling, India

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    February 15, 1896: At Siliguri...they changed to one of the canvas-covered, six-passenger cars which hugged the two-foot-gauge rails of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. For about seven miles they darted through rice fields and tea gardens to Sukna, where the 7,000 ascent began. The miniature train slowed to less than ten miles an hour as it passed through forest and wild botanical gardens, rounded countless goompties (zigzags), crept under cliffs, and edged along chasms.

  • Komani, South Africa

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    Komani, formerly Queenstown, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom. It is currently the commercial, administrative and educational centre of the surrounding farming district.

    Its former nickname, "Rose Capital of South Africa", comes from the large gardens and open places for flowers, (especially roses), in and around the town.

  • Brescia, Italy

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    Sam and companions merely passed through by train on their way to Venice, July 20, 1867. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary

    From Bædeker:

  • Bergamo, Italy

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    Sam and companions traveled from Lecco to Bergamo where they caught the train for Venice, July 20, 1867. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary.

    From Bædeker:

  • Ramla

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    Sam and companions arrived in Ramla the evening of September 29, 1867 from Jerusalem. They departed again the morning of September 30th for Jaffa.
    Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary


    See Bædeker (1876) Route 2 page 133 (Ramleh)

    See Bædeker (1898) Route 22 page 248 (Rámallâh)


    Murray Route 16 page 276 (Ramleh)

     

  • Ferrara

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    Ferrara (Europa , opposite the post-office ; Stella d 'Oro , opposite the castle, R . 2 , L : 1 2, B . 12 fr. ; Tre Corone, R . 11/2, A . 42 fr., tolerable ; Ristoratore di Pasqua Crovetto , Piazza del Commercio , opp . the palace ; Caffè del Commercio , in the same piazza), situated near the ancient Forum Alieni, 31/2 M . S . of the Po, in the midst of a fruitful, but unhealthy plain . It is the capital of a Delegation , with 27 ,688 nhab . , and possesses broad , deserted streets , decaying palaces , and other imposing reminiscences of its golden period . It once numbered 100 ,000 inhab.

  • Pistoia, Italy

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    Sam and companions travel through Pistoia at night, by train, en route to Florence from Venice. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary

  • Jericho

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    Sam and companions departed Jerusalem at 8:00am on September 25 arriving that night at Jericho. They departed Jericho at 2:00am September 26 en route to the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary


    See Bædeker (1898) Jericho


    Murray Route 9 page 192


     

  • Safed

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    Safed (Hebrew: צְפַת, Tzfat; Arabic: صفد‎, Ṣafad, Ashkenazi: Tzfas; Biblical: Ṣ'fath, ISO 259-3: ) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of 900 metres (2,953 ft), Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Due to its high elevation, Safed experiences warm summers and cold, often snowy, winters. Since the 16th century, Safed has been considered one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberias; since that time, the city has remained a center of Kabbalah, also known as Jewish mysticism.

  • El Fulah - Afula

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    History: Bronze Age

    According to the Survey of Western Palestine (SWP, 1882), it was possibly the place called Alpha in the list of Thutmes III.

    Crusader-Ayyubid period

  • Baden-Baden, Germany

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    July 23, 1878: The Clemens family traveled by rail to Baden Baden, Germany, staying in the Hotel de France. Sam remembered the hotel as a “plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel” in chapter 21 of A Tramp Abroad. The medicinal baths in Baden Baden were probably an inducement for the move.
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  • Como

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    Sam and companions traveled by train from Milan to Como and then took a steamer to Bellagio on July 18th. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary

    Twain also made a day trip to Chiasso, in Switzerland, from Como.

  • Painted Post, NY

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    Painted Post is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The village is in the town of Erwin, west of the city of Corning. The population was 1,842 at the 2000 census. The name comes from a painted and carved post found by explorers at the junction of three local rivers

    Painted Post Statue

  • Glasgow, MT

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    The Nakota, Lakota, and Dakota peoples inhabited the Glasgow region until 1888. In 1887 they signed a treaty surrendering 17,500,000 acres. They were relocated tot he Fort Peck Indian Reservation and all tribes removed from the Glasgow area. At one time this area supported huge herds of buffalo and other games, as reported by the Lewis and Clark expedition. The last native American buffalo hunt held here occurred in 1885.