extra for guides and horses. I had a pretty good time. They didn't
charge me anything. I have got back sick--went to bed as soon as I
arrived here--shall not be strong again for several days yet. I rushed
too fast. I ought to have taken five or six weeks on that trip.

A week hence I start for the Island of Kauai, to be gone three weeks and
then I go back to California.

The Crown Princess is dead and thousands of natives cry and wail and
dance and dance for the dead, around the King's Palace all night and
every night. They will keep it up for a month and then she will be
buried.

Hon. Anson Burlingame, U. S. Minister to China, and Gen. Van Valkenburgh,
Minister to Japan, with their families and suites, have just arrived here
en route. They were going to do me the honor to call on me this morning,
and that accounts for my being out of bed now. You know what condition
my room is always in when you are not around--so I climbed out of bed and
dressed and shaved pretty quick and went up to the residence of the
American Minister and called on them. Mr. Burlingame told me a good deal
about Hon. Jere Clemens and that Virginia Clemens who was wounded in a
duel. He was in Congress years with both of them. Mr. B. sent for his
son, to introduce him--said he could tell that frog story of mine as well
as anybody. I told him I was glad to hear it for I never tried to tell
it myself without making a botch of it. At his request I have loaned Mr.
Burlingame pretty much everything I ever wrote. I guess he will be an
almighty wise man by the time he wades through that lot.

If the New United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands (Hon. Edwin
McCook,) were only here now, so that I could get his views on this new