Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . announced to the prisoners theirfate. We can fancy Christian myrtys clustering underthese walls, and fearing not even the lions, in the blessedhope of that salvation whose gospel had only come fromthe shores of Galilee. We see ruined tombs and evidencesof cremation, and house after house, streets and houseswithout end, until we become bewildered with the multi-tude and variety of sights. The imj)ression made by thejourney may be summed up in a remark of General Grant,that Pompeii was one of the
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . announced to the prisoners theirfate. We can fancy Christian myrtys clustering underthese walls, and fearing not even the lions, in the blessedhope of that salvation whose gospel had only come fromthe shores of Galilee. We see ruined tombs and evidencesof cremation, and house after house, streets and houseswithout end, until we become bewildered with the multi-tude and variety of sights. The imj)ression made by thejourney may be summed up in a remark of General Grant,that Pompeii was one of the few things which had not AROUND THE WORLD. 189 disappointed his expectations; tHat the truth was morestriking than imagination had painted, and that it wasworth a journey over the sea to see and study its stately,solemn ruins. The Italian authorities did General Grant special honoron his visit to Pompeii by directing that a house shouldbe excavated. It is one of the special compliments paidto visitors of renown. The guide will show houses thathave been excavated in the presence of Murat and his. FIGHTING WITH BEASTS. Queen, of General Championnet and Joseph II., of Ad-miral Farragut and General Sherman and General houses are still known by the names of the illus-trious persons who witnessed their exhumation, and theguide hastens to point out to you, if you are an American,where honor was paid to our countrymen. When Sher-man and Sheridan were here, large crowds attended, andthe occasion was made quite a picnic. But General Grantsvisit was known only to a few, and so when the director 12 190 GRANTS TOUR of excavations led tlie way to the proposed work, there werethe General and his party, and a group of our gallant andcourteous friends from the Vandalia. The quarter selectedwas near the Forum. Chairs were arranged for the General,Mrs. Grant, and some of us, and there quietly, in a roomthat had known Pompeiian life seventeen centuries ago,we awaited th
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