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 . a club window as the Indianchiefs went in procession along Fifth Avenue. As a matterof fact I suppose they looked upon General Grant and hisparty as some of us would regard Red Cloud and his were foreigners, outside barbarians, and if we came at allto a viceregal palace—if we were r
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 . a club window as the Indianchiefs went in procession along Fifth Avenue. As a matterof fact I suppose they looked upon General Grant and hisparty as some of us would regard Red Cloud and his were foreigners, outside barbarians, and if we came at allto a viceregal palace—if we were received with music and thefiring of cannon, and the beating of drums—it was because theViceroy was in a gracious mood and deigned to give the bar-barian a sight of imperial Chinese splendor. We are not theonly people in the world who are proud of our country ; and inloyalty to country and race and religion, in absolute devotionto ones native land, in a belief that there is no other land A CHINESE ( ROWD. 39 worth mentioning, the Chinaman could give us lessons, as hecould in many other things. And so you saw this curious,inquiring, contemptuous expression, and you inferred fromsome hurried observation and the ripple of mocking laughterwhich came with it that you were under criticism, that your. A CANAL IN CANTON. black coat or white cravat or crushed opera hat—that yourbraided hat and embroidered shoulders were inspiring emotionslike those which the plumes and paint of Sitting Bull would in-spire in the bosoms of cynical New Yorkers. As we passed some bazaars workmen were at their laborspainting silk or lacquer work, or beating silver into odd would not look at us, but went on with their brush and 320 CHINA. hammer as if the barbarian was not even now going in statepast their doors and all Canton was out to see him. Yourather respect the surly conservative with work to do who hasnot even a look for the barbarian who has come to the Celes-tial city. This is a ch
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