The managing editor was absent, and so I thought no more about it. I did go to the Tribune office to see if such an article was wanted, because I belonged on the regular staff of that paper and it was simply a duty to do it. 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 was charged with “rushing into print” with these compliments. 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. In this place I will print an article which I wrote for the New York Herald the night we arrived.
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