Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . pan, who came and knelt as they offendtheir tea. The town people were out in holiday attire totake the air and look out on the bay and stare at the Gen-eral. After we had made our tour of the fair grounds theGovernor asked the General and Mrs. Grant to plant memo-rial trees. The species plant
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . pan, who came and knelt as they offendtheir tea. The town people were out in holiday attire totake the air and look out on the bay and stare at the Gen-eral. After we had made our tour of the fair grounds theGovernor asked the General and Mrs. Grant to plant memo-rial trees. The species planted by the General was the Ficusrcligiosa, while to Mrs. Grant was given the Saurtis Governor then said that Nagasaki had resolved to erect amonument in honor of General Grants visit, that this memorialwould be near the trees, and that if the General would onlywrite an inscription it would be engraved on the stone in Eng-lish and Japanese characters. The General wrote the inscrip-tion as follows : Nagasaki, Japan, June 22, 1879. At the request of Governor Utsumi Togatsu, Mrs. Grant and I have eachplanted a tree in the Nagasaki Park. I hope that both trees may prosper, grow-large, live long, and in their growth, prosperity, and long life be emblematic of the future of Japan. U. S. GRANT. A JAPANESE FAMILY AT DINNER. CHAPTER XLI. JAPAN.
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