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CHAPTER XXVIII.
Home from India—A Friendly Reception—Journey to New Mexico—The
Maxwell Land Grant Company—Renewed Visits to England and
Holland—Re-elected Secretary of State—Visit of the Swedish Officers in
Minneapolis and St. Paul—Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of
the Landing of the First Swedes in Delaware.
On the Sth of July I was again home with family and
friends in Minneapolis, and found everything pretty much as
I had left it nearly two years previously, except that my good
old father had gone to his final rest. A couple of days later I
visited my farm, in the Red River valley, and my old and
faithful friend Capt. H. Eustrom, who lived close by and
was then holding an important office, and who had
faithfully attended to niv interests at that place during my absence.
My Scandinavian friends had meanwhile arranged a
reception for me, and on the 11th some eight\r of them joined
in a banquet at Lyndale Hotel, then situated in the suburbs
of Minneapolis at Lake Calhoun. The afternoon was devoted
to a steamboat tour around the beautiful lake, and in the
evening the party all sat down to a sumptuous banquet,
where many addresses of welcome and tokens of friendship
were spoken, read and sung. I had been absent nearly two
years, seen and experienced much of the world and enjoyed
many pleasures, but I found the old saying true; "There is
no place likehome." These two yearshad been of particular
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