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 . s. On reaching the palaceinfantry received the General with military honors. The PrimeMinister, accompanied by the Ministers for the Household and Foreign Affairs,were waiting atthe door when ourparty princes of theimperial familywere meeting wasnot so stately andforma
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 . s. On reaching the palaceinfantry received the General with military honors. The PrimeMinister, accompanied by the Ministers for the Household and Foreign Affairs,were waiting atthe door when ourparty princes of theimperial familywere meeting wasnot so stately andformal as whenwe came to greetthe Emperor andhave an audienceof welcome. Thena 11 the cabinetwere in uniformsand we were strangers, now we are friends. On enteringthe audience-chamber—the same plain and severely furnishedroom in which we had been received—the Emperor and Em-press advanced and shook hands with the General and The Emperor is not what you would call a gracefulman, and his manners are those of an anxious person notprecisely at his ease—wishing to please and make no mis-take. But on this farewell audience he seemed more easy andnatural than when we had seen him before. After the saluteof the Emperor there was a moments pause. General Grant. JAPANESE BONZES. FAREWELL TO THE EM PER OR. 603 then took out of his pocket the manuscript of his speech, andread it as follows: Your Majesty : I come to take my leave, and to thank you, the officersof your government, and the people of Japan, for the great hospitality and kind-ness I have received at the hands of all during my most pleasant visit to thiscountry. I have now been two months in Tokio and the surrounding neigh-borhood, and two previous weeks in the more southerly part of the affords me great satisfaction to say that during all this stay and all my visit-ing I have not witnessed one discourtesy toward myself, nor a single unpleasantsight. Everywhere there seem
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