The Innocents Abroad

Chapter 61

In this place I will print an article which I wrote for the New York

Herald the night we arrived. I do it partly because my contract with my

publishers makes it compulsory; partly because it is a proper, tolerably

accurate, and exhaustive summing up of the cruise of the ship and the

performances of the pilgrims in foreign lands; and partly because some of

the passengers have abused me for writing it, and I wish the public to

see how thankless a task it is to put one's self to trouble to glorify

unappreciative people. I was charged with "rushing into print" with

these compliments. I did not rush. I had written news letters to the

Herald sometimes, but yet when I visited the office that day I did not

say any thing about writing a valedictory. I did go to the Tribune

office to see