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Thence to Dresdeu , where I stll,Ysd nearly
II.
month . It
is
not
II.
pleasant
place and one get. Ured to death of
the
,
al l eriel and
the
Green Vaul
h.
There are theatre., operas ,
ete.,
but
the
atmotphere of
the
place
1
a
dull
and displrit1Ui. I remained there because King
had
written ",e
that
if
I
would
do
eo,
he
would COllIe on Md .loin
11\8
there. I1nally
he
came and'll'
left for Vienna. 'I:'1ile in Dre,den I had
letter.
from
China,
g ivlllg me
the house acCQ=te for the year . JuC&e of IIW eurprlee
.
hen
I (o=d
that
the
hOllall
had.
mede in the ),ear
that
had
Just
elapsed !UOrll
than
two lrundred
thouund do llare. Thie
wa. almo.t
foUl'
time,
.1
much ae I had eYer m_de ,
and ahowed OD j,uguet1ne"
part
aollit)' of very high order.
From Dre,den we went to Vienna, which ie , after Parie, the
ple&AIIllteet place in Europe . 'Ie
Bt~ed
at the Hotel Uunch and were tbllre
about
II.
month . While there
uq
bt'otb.er .ubert joined me. He "'" cn
hh
way to China.
He
rema.1ned with us for lOIIIe time and aeeompani15d "". to
V15niee,
10
that before
Itart1~
he
had
quite a 1Iu,pr_plum to tllke the
bHter taste out of hill mouth. 'Ie
tItl"
in Vienna fl good defll of one of
oW' naval offieen . named fallner.
We
had
met
h1lll often betore in travel-
l1I14!;
about Europe.
He .8011
on l eaYe of ab.ance. in Beareh of health, and
waB qui te a nice intellij,1!n
t
fellow. Yearll after . in Newport.
he
was
fl-
gain brOl.l,\!;ht in connection .Hh King in an odd manner.
han
I
perceive that
I
oco1tted to sive an account of a viait King and
,
I paid to the fortified town in Aultria called Olmuts, where
the
:
El:Dperor
ot
.
Allstria met the lhperor of Rullda . The meeting .11.1 also attended b;y
the Grand
Duke
of
Pru••
la. who becsme afterwardl .0
f~\l.a
aB the fir.t
ll;.peror of the
Ge:rman
Empire . To under,tand the caule of thh meetin&
it ahould be known toot
the
Crimean War .aB ilnpendln&. end
that
H waB a
greflt object with England 8lld hence t o induce the Get':lI.en powerl to calt
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