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My Appointment as U. S. Consul to Tamatave, Madagascar--My Arrival in France En Route to Paris--Called on Ambassador Porter and Consul Gowdy Relative to My "Exequator"--Visited the Louvre, the Famous Gallery of Paintings--"Follies Bergere," or Variety Theater--The "Dome des Invalids" or the Tomb of the Great Napoleon--Mrs. Mason, of Arkansas and Washington, in Paris--Marseilles and "Hotel du Louvre"--Embarkation on French Ship "Pie Ho" for Madagascar--Scenes and Incidents En Route--"Port Said"--Visit to the "Mosque," Mohammedan Place of Worship.
Suez Canal--The Red Sea--Pharaoh and His Hosts--Their Waterloo--Children of Israel--Travel by Sea--Arrival and Landing at Madagascar--Bubonic Plague--My Letter From Madagascar.