CHAPTER X.

My only Delay on an American Railway—No concealing one’s Nationality—Railway Cow-plough—Pistols—Memphis—Emigration from the South deprecated—True Method of Resuscitation—The Minister’s Study—Conversation with two Ministers—Invitation to ‘go to Church’ 150 Miles off—Luxury does not sap the Military Spirit—Mrs. Read—Entry into Eden—Share a Bed-room with a Californian—How California was civilised—How a Site upon the Swamp was created for Cairo—Decline the fourth part of a Bed-room at Odin—‘Be good to yourself’ 146