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CHAPTER XIV.
I am Appointed Consul-General to India—Assassination of
Garfield—Departure for India—My Stay in Chicago and Washington—Paris and
Versailles—Rome—Naples—Pompeii—From Naples to
Alexandria—Interesting Acquaintances on the Voyage—The First Impressions in Egypt.
In the morning papers of July 2, 1881, a telegram from
Washington announced that President Garfield had
appointed me consul-general to India, in the cabinet meeting
of the previous evening. The same telegram also announced
that the president had left Washington for New England,
where he intended to spend his summer vacation in the
country. It was with mingled feelings of satisfaction and
misgiving that I faced the opportunity to satisfy my
longing to see the wonderful Orient, especially India, in which
country the missionary Dr. Fjellstedt had aroused my
childish interest, as stated in the beginning of these reminiscences.
Alter consulting wife and children concerning this, to us,
important news, I walked down town, receiving
congratulations from friends and acquaintances on the way, and,
arriving at one of the newspaper offices, I found a large
crowd of people eagerly reading on a bulletin-board a
dispatch to the effect that President Garfield had been shot by
Guiteau. The news caused an excitement and consternation
almost as intense as that produced by the assassination of
Lincoln. Telegrams were received from Washington
continually, and outside the newspaper offices were placed bulle-
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