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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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In
some
cases
when
he
went
abroad,
England
was
but
the
starting
point
for
excursions
on
the
Continent,
in
which
he
visited
almost
every
European
country.
In
1874,
in
company
with
two
well-known
Americans,
Bayard
Taylor
and
Murat
Halstead,
he
made
a
voyage
to
Iceland,
as
ten
years
before
he
had
been
to
Egypt,
as
a
delegate
from
the
New
York
Chamber
of
Commerce,
to
witness
the
opening
of
the
Suez
Canal.
In
1880-81
he
took
a
still
longer
flight
around
the
world.
Waiting
till
after
the
Presidential
election,
that
he
might
cast
his
vote
for
his
friend
General
Garfield,
the
very
next
day
he
left
with
his
wife
in
a
special
car
for
San
Francisco,
where
after
a
few
days,
they
took
ship
for
Japan,
from
which
they
passed
through
the
Inland
Sea
to
Shanghai,
and
from
China
to
Singapore,
and
up
the
Bay
of
Bengal
to
Calcutta,
where
he
found
the
same
English
nobleman
whom
he
had
entertained
in
New
York,
the
Marquis
of
Ripon,
Governor-General
of
India.
Going
up
the
country,
the
travellers
visited
Agra
and
Delhi,
where
the
wonders
of
architecture
showed
the
magnificence
of
the
old
Mogul
Empire.
The
whole
journey
was
one
of
infinite
pleasure
and
instruction,
and
they
were
never
weary
of
talking
of
the
strange
manners
and
customs
of
the
people
of
Asia.
When
they
returned
to
America,
General
Garfield
was
President
of
the
United
States,
who,
though
a
Western
man
by
birth,
had
been
educated
in
New
England,
at
Williams
College
in
Massachusetts,
where
he
had
been
graduated
twenty-five
years
before,
and
which
he
had
a
desire
to
revisit;
and
it
was
arranged
that
he
should
leave
Washington
in
the
morning
of
July
2d,
with
as
many
of
his
cabinet
as
could
be
spared
from
the
seat
of
government,
and
come
on
to
New
York
and
all
be
entertained
at
"Ardsley,"
and
the
next
day
proceed
up
the
Hudson
and
across
the
country
to
Williamstown;
a
programme
which
was
interrupted
by
the
terrible
news
that
on
arriving
at
the
station
in
Washington
he
had
been
shot,
an
event
that
instantly
recalled
the
assassination
of
Lincoln.
At
once
there
rose
a
cry
of
horror
from
one
end
of
the
land
to
the
other,
and
for
weeks
the
whole
country
was
watching
by
the
bedside
of
the
illustrious
sufferer.
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