CHAPTER XXX 



TRIUMPHAL JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE. 



Roosevelt Sails eor Naples — Gets Ovation — Visited by King 

 Victor Emmanuel — " Long Live Roosevelt " — Visits 

 Scene of Honeymoon in Unique Equipage — Porto 

 Maurizio in Gala Array — Admires Venice erom Gondola 

 — Emperor Franz Joseph Pays Honor to the Colonel — 

 Journey to Budapest — Meets Francis Kossuth — Greeted 

 Like a Ruler in Paris. 



T MAJEDIATELY on retiring from the Presidency Colonel Roose- 

 * velt hurried to Africa, far away from the strenuous poHtical 

 life of the preceding years, living in the wild, indifferent to the 

 world's thought and interest. Not a few were glad to have him 

 thus go, for they thought he had gone beyond the horizon of poli- 

 tical life and if he ever returned it would be without a place to 

 receive him. But such a welcome has never been given any man. 



At the border of civilization the welcome began, and at every 

 step it increased in volume and heartiness. Missions, civil organi- 

 zations, rulers and public officials gave him cordial greeting. Courts 

 were opened to him, and Kings made him their personal guest. No 

 other man has undertaken such a journey; no American has been so 

 honored. 



General Grant was welcomed as he went around the world to 

 a degree that made us wonder and excited our pride, but it was 

 Grant, the great general as well as ex-President. He received the 

 honors with becoming dignity, but he was a silent man, and no 

 special and abiding impression was made on the world by him. 



Roosevelt carries with him his characteristic intense energy, 

 and speaks with the independence and force which made him the 

 most popular and personally the most potent President we have 

 ever had. He seemed to throw prudence aside when he began his 



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