Chapter XXXI. 
The Buried City of Pompeii—­How Dwellings Appear that have been
Unoccupied for Eighteen hundred years—­The Judgment Seat—­Desolation—­The
Footprints of the Departed—­“No Women Admitted”—­Theatres, Bakeshops,
Schools—­Skeletons preserved by the Ashes and Cinders—­The Brave Martyr
to Duty—­Rip Van Winkle—­The Perishable Nature of Fame

Chapter xxxii.  At Sea Once More—­The Pilgrims all Well—­Superb Stromboli—­Sicily by Moonlight—­Scylla and Charybdis—­The “Oracle” at Fault—­Skirting the Isles of Greece Ancient Athens—­Blockaded by Quarantine and Refused Permission to Enter—­Running the Blockade—­A Bloodless Midnight Adventure—­Turning Robbers from Necessity—­Attempt to Carry the Acropolis by Storm—­We Fail—­Among the Glories of the Past—­A World of Ruined Sculpture—­A Fairy Vision—­Famous Localities—­Retreating in Good Order —­Captured by the Guards—­Travelling in Military State—­Safe on Board Again

Chapter XXXIII. 
Modern Greece—­Fallen Greatness—­Sailing Through the Archipelago and the
Dardanelles—­Footprints of History—­The First Shoddy Contractor of whom
History gives any Account—­Anchored Before Constantinople—­Fantastic
Fashions—­The Ingenious Goose-Rancher—­Marvelous Cripples—­The Great
Mosque—­The Thousand and One Columns—­The Grand Bazaar of Stamboul

Chapter XXXIV. 
Scarcity of Morals and Whiskey—­Slave-Girl Market Report—­Commercial
Morality at a Discount—­The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople
—­Questionable Delights of Newspaperdom in Turkey—­Ingenious Italian
Journalism—­No More Turkish Lunches Desired—­The Turkish Bath Fraud
—­The Narghileh Fraud—­Jackplaned by a Native—­The Turkish Coffee Fraud

Chapter XXXV. 
Sailing Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea—­“Far-Away Moses”
—­Melancholy Sebastopol—­Hospitably Received in Russia—­Pleasant English
People—­Desperate Fighting—­Relic Hunting—­How Travellers Form “Cabinets”

Chapter XXXVI. 
Nine Thousand Miles East—­Imitation American Town in Russia—­Gratitude
that Came Too Late—­To Visit the Autocrat of All the Russias

Chapter XXXVII. 
Summer Home of Royalty—­Practising for the Dread Ordeal—­Committee on
Imperial Address—­Reception by the Emperor and Family—­Dresses of the
Imperial Party—­Concentrated Power—­Counting the Spoons—­At the Grand
Duke’s—­A Charming Villa—­A Knightly Figure—­The Grand Duchess—­A Grand
Ducal Breakfast—­Baker’s Boy, the Famine-Breeder—­Theatrical Monarchs a
Fraud—­Saved as by Fire—­The Governor—­General’s Visit to the Ship
—­Official “Style”—­Aristocratic Visitors—­“Munchausenizing” with Them
—­Closing Ceremonies

Chapter XXXVIII. 
Return to Constantinople—­We Sail for Asia—­The Sailors Burlesque the
Imperial Visitors—­Ancient Smyrna—­The “Oriental Splendor” Fraud
—­The “Biblical Crown of Life”—­Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans—­Sociable
Armenian Girls—­A Sweet Reminiscence—­“The Camels are Coming, Ha-ha!”