The innocents abroad; . come from anyother country we could nothave had permission to enterSebastopol and leave againunder three days—but as itwas, we were at liberty to goand come when and where wepleased. Every body in Con-stantinople warned us to bevery careful about our pass-ports, see that they were strict-ly en regie, and never to mislay them for a moment: and theytold us of numerous instances of Englishmen and others whowere delayed days, weeks, and even months, in Sebastopol, onaccount of trilling informalities in their passports, and forwhich they were not to blame. I had lost my pass
The innocents abroad; . come from anyother country we could nothave had permission to enterSebastopol and leave againunder three days—but as itwas, we were at liberty to goand come when and where wepleased. Every body in Con-stantinople warned us to bevery careful about our pass-ports, see that they were strict-ly en regie, and never to mislay them for a moment: and theytold us of numerous instances of Englishmen and others whowere delayed days, weeks, and even months, in Sebastopol, onaccount of trilling informalities in their passports, and forwhich they were not to blame. I had lost my passport, andwas traveling under my room-mates, who stayed behind inConstantinople to await our return. To read the descriptionof him in that passport and then look at me, any man couldsee that I was no more like him than I am like Hercules. SoI went into the harbor of Sebastopol with fear and trembling—full of a vague, horrible apprehension that I was going to befound out and hanged. But all that time my true passport. FAR-AWAY MOSES. MELANCHOLY SEBASTOPOL. 383 had been floating gallantly overhead—and behold it was onlyour flag. They never asked us for any other. We have had a great many Russian and English gentlemenand ladies on board to-day, and the time has passed cheerfullyaway. They were all happy-spirited people, and I neverheard our mother tongue sound so pleasantly as it did when itfell from those English lips in this far-ofi land. I talked tothe Russians a good deal, just to be friendly, and they talkedto me from the same motive; I am sure that both enjoyed theconversation, but never a word of it either of us did most of my talking to those English people though, andI am sorry we can not carry some of them along with us. We have gone whithersoever we chose, to-day, and have metwith nothing but the kindest attentions. ]^5^obody inquiredwhether we had any passports or not. Several of the ofiicers of the Government have suggestedthat we take the ship to a
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