Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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strutting, and sagacious storks stalking andprophesying, the interior of the temple is a weird combinationof the mythic and the terrific. Though we have experienced neither menace nor insult, ourguard is nevertheless indispensable to protect us against intrusivecuriosity. The crowds gather around, and follow us wherever wealight and wherever we go. Perhaps the escort might be neededin case of sudden excitement or tumult, such as is liable to happenin every great city. That was not only, a seasonable but a pretty and pleasant break-fast which Sir Harry and Lady Parkes gave us at the British lega-tion. It did not need the after divertissement of native legerdemain.The zeal and efficiency of Sir Harry Parkes, as minister, are wellknown. Lady Parkes is not less distinguished for the spirited man-ner in which she sustains him in his diplomatic studies and labors. We left the British legation in compact procession, as we hadentered it, Mr. Seward and Mr. De Long leading in a pony-carriage,
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BRITISH LEGATION AT YEDDO. 61 Mr. De Long driving. Three other carriages followed, attended bythe consul, and the whole surrounded by the escort. For a time thecarriages in the rear had the forward one in full view, while its occu-pants, frequently looting back, exchanged greetings. Mr. Sewardand Mr. De Long at length reached the high stone bridge, built

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