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ment is solid stone and now used for a penitentiary. 

 We frequented the beautiful parks on the beautiful 

 bay of Naples, where bands spent hours discoursing 

 sweet music each afternoon. One day the city was 

 awakened into new life by a visit from the king and 

 queen of Italy in company with their friends, the 

 emperor and empress of Germany, and the crown 

 prince of Greece. The ovation tendered them must 

 have satisfied their vanity, if not enough to turn their 

 heads. The city that once ruled the world (Rome) 

 next claimed our attention. The Vatican, the Col- 

 losseum. Royal Palace, St. Peter's and St. Paul's 

 cathedrals, the Pyramid, the Portal, and the Cata- 

 combs each was visited by us and excited wonder 

 and admiration. 



Upon going back to Naples we discovered that 

 we could get transportation for the twenty-seven jacks 

 and jennets that we had purchased, on a Scotch 

 steamer bound for New York. So, without delay, we 

 began to make ready. Lumber and work on each stall 

 cost $10, and was only about thirty-eight inches wide. 

 Our stock was taken on board May i6, after paying 

 iexport duty on each animal, and $20 for litter to con- 

 vey stock and feed from shore to ship, and happy were 

 we at prospect of starting to America. We stopped 

 six hours at Gibraltar, taking cattle aboard for slaugh- 

 ter. A rope was fastened around their horns and they 

 were drawn upon the ship by machinery. They would 

 fight the air wildly with their feet, but were landed 

 safely on board. In midocean one of our jennets 

 foaled, and we named the dark-haired beauty Ocean 

 Wave, and he proved to be as restless and energetic 

 as the ocean itself. So instead of losing any we gained 



