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CHAPTER LIV Sir
Henry Loch gives a fancy-dress ball in honor of the Queen's Jubilee The Melbourne Exhibition Return to America via Suez
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— — Visit to the "Isle of France" (Mauritius) — Paul and Virginia must have sat down hard — Return to Melbourne — Secretary of State appoints a naval to take charge of appropriation American exhibit — First World's Fair Commission ever to turn back a balance into the Treasury — Receive a medal — Leave Australia — Authorize captain of the Mariposa to return to Sydney — Samoans as swimmers — Resign 453 Canal
officer
for
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CHAPTER LV "Cedarcroft"
— Death of Captain Dawson — Ten years on a farm — — Australian fox 459
Vagaries of the genus horse
terriers
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CHAPTER LVI New York — Accompany Mrs. Davis to — Unveiling of the memorial window to Mr. Davis — Make the oration at the unveiling of the statuette to Mr. Davis the Confederate Museum — The old Confederate "White House" — Present my sword and from President Davis and General Lee to the Museum — Letter from Mrs. Davis on
Visit Mrs. Jefferson
Davis
in
Richmond
in
letters
the subject of Prince Polignac's canard about his mission to selling the State of Louisiana . . 463
France for the purpose of
CHAPTER LVn The
hero of Manila
Bay
— Some learned
— Distinguished dead who were my friends which have honored me — "Peace at
societies
any price"
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CHAPTER LVni The
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"birth of a nation" Assistant manager of the Washington branch of the International Banking Corporation Extracts from a diary kept on a journey to Panama Meet my old class-
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mates Admirals Coghlan and Glass, of the "Brood of the Constitution" My old hulk is laid up in ordinary waiting to be
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scrapped
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