Twain wanted to find a land totally foreign to his experience. He found that in Tangier. McKeithan (1958) remarks that this letter is used in the book almost entirely as originally written.
Reading Date
August 2, 2011
SL Venue
Fate Gardens
Twain Chapter Comments
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Excursion Itinerary 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.
http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/MTDP00308.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp
A Nearby Site of an Enlightened Race
"Five days' journey from here--say 200 miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. And yet its arches, its columns and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race." Letter Number 3, Daily Alta California, August 31, 1867 (McKeithan, p29).
I'm wondering where this site is.