Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland (1879) (14591096369)

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Title: Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., W. S. Bryan (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ient, perhaps, in Europe— to produce this wheel, you may guess how far the peoplehave advanced. The team is drawn by two oxen, withtheir horns locked together, and their heads covered by afleece. In the cart is a pig, ready for the last and highestoffice a pig can pay to humanity. Other carts come ladenwith hay drawn by the slow, shambling oxen, all seekinga market. You hear drums and trumpets and army calls.The town is a camp, and ladies are thronging the latticewindows, and soldiers come swarming out of the narrowstreets into the market-place. This is the season of themanoeuvres. A crowd of citizens stand in the street, about l AROUND THE WORLD. 447 a liundrecl paces from our hotel, quiet, expectant, staringinto an open gateway. This gateway leads into a long,irregular, low range of buildings of yellowish stone andred tiles. Over the gate clings the flag of Spain, its dampfolds clustering the pole. A black streamer blends withthe yellow and crimson folds, mourning the death of the
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A GROUP OF SPANISH LADIES. Queen. Natty young officers trip about, their breastsblazoned with decorations, telling of victories in Carlistand Cuban wars, all wearing mourning on their arms forthe poor young Mercedes. The sentinels present arms, agroup of elderly officers come streaming out of the gate-way. At their head is a stripling with a slight moustache,and thin, dark side whiskers. In this group are the firstgenerals in Spain — Concha, Quesada — captain-generals,noblemen, helmeted, sjDurred, braided with gold lace,, oldmen with gray hairs. The stripling they follow^ dressed 448 GRANTS TOUR in captain-generals uniform, and toucliing liis cap to thecrowd as it uncovers, is Alfonso XII., King of Spain. When General Grant readied Vittoria, there were allthe authorities out to see him, and he was informed that inthe morning the King would meet him. Ten oclock wasthe hour, and the place was a small city hall or palace,where the King resides when he comes into his capital.At ten th