His followers became happy and enthusiastic, and great crowds came to pay their respects to Him.

All the notables of Ba_gh_dad, even the Governor himself, came to honor the departing prisoner.
Constantinople and Adrianople The journey to Constantinople lasted between three and four months, the party consisting of Baha'u'llah with members of His family and twenty-six disciples.

Arrived in Constantinople they found themselves prisoners in a small house in which they were very much overcrowded.

Later they got somewhat better quarters, but after four months they were again moved on, this time to Adrianople.

The journey to Adrianople, although it lasted but a few days, was the most terrible they had yet undertaken.