CHAPTER III 



WASHINGTON 



We left New York on the morning of November 17, 

 and took the ferry to Jersey City. Thence we 

 journeyed by rail to Washington, which we reached 

 safely at 4.30. The heat of the car was rather 

 oppressive. At Philadelphia Captain Clipperton, 

 Her late Majesty's Consul, boarded the train and 

 had a few minutes' interview with Mr. Chamberlain 

 and ourselves. He and I had worked together in 

 the Foreign Office some years previously, and were 

 always great friends. He was a very popular, 

 cheery personage, and the best possible company, 

 as well as an admirable consular officer. I shall 

 have more to say about him during our halt at 

 Philadelphia on the return journey. He retired on 

 a pension in 1898, and died last year. He was uni- 

 versally respected and beloved by all who knew him, 

 and by none more than myself. At the depot at 

 Washington we were met by Sir Lionel Sackville 

 West, the British Minister, Beauclerk, and Cecil 



Spring Rice, who was then a third Secretary in the 



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