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on account of its wonderful effect upon an 

 Indian, who had accidentally swallowed a clasp 

 knife ; when one dose of this medicine opened 

 the knife and killed him. 



On reaching New York we put up at the 

 " Windsor Hotel," and on the 9th September, 

 1874, we embarked on board the Cunard 

 steamer " Russia " for England. 



On leaving America I left many good friends, 

 more especially amongst the officers of the 

 United States' Navy, with whom I had had 

 much intercourse in the Pacific. They are, as 

 a rule, most courteous and hospitable, and 

 above any petty prejudices against the old 

 country. Indeed, I have always found the best 

 people in America are proud of their connexion 

 with the old country, and of her glorious deeds 

 in days gone by, as Englishmen may well be of 

 the advancement of America. 



The wholesale abuse occasionally heaped upon 

 the English by the American Press by no means 

 represents the feeling of the better class, but is 

 written to pander to the taste of the rowdy 



