"Upon this, then, I had decided, when most unexpectedly, and as the consummation of all my wishes, my pleasure trip was transformed into an important scientific expedition for the benefit of the Museum, by the intervention of one of my friends, Mr. Nathaniel Thayer."
"The vessel at once got up steam, and the little pleasure trip became a twenty-eight years 'exile, passed, for many years in Kastamuni, in Asia Minor."
"As she was only sixteen years old, the marriage was postponed, and Ratisbonne entered upon a pleasure trip to the Orient."