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Artistic Florence, practical Bologna, grand and stately Milan, and unique Verona were next added to the list. Verona's superb and well-preserved "Arena," excelling in superficial area the Colosseum and holding 45,000 people, was specially granted for the Wild West's use; and the home of Shakespeare's love-lorn heroine placed another picture in Red man's tour of the native land of his discoverer. The Indians were taken by "BUFFALO BILL" to picturesque architectural skill. They were immortalized by the camera in the Ducal Palace, St. Marc's Piazza, and in the strange street vehicle of the Adriatic's erstwhile pride--the gondola--contributing another interesting object lesson to the distant juvenile members of their tribe--to testify more fully to their puzzles senses the fact of strange sights and marvels whose existence is to be learned of in the breadth of knowledge necessitated by their future existence.

Moving via Innsbruck through the beautifully scenic Tyrol--the Bavarian capital, Munich, with its naturally artistic instincts, gave a grand reception to the beginning of a marvelously successful tour through German-land, which included Vienna (with an excursion on the "Blue Danube"), Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Madgeburg, Hanover, Brunswick, Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, along the Rhine past Bonn, Coblentz, "Fair Biegen on the Rhine" to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Strasburg. These historic cities--with all their

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wealth of legendary interest, art galleries, scientific conservatories, educative edifices, cathedrals, modern palaces, ancient ruins, army man[oe combined]uvrings, fortifications, commercial and varied manufacturing and agricultural industries, and the social, genial, friendly, quiet customs of its people--should form good instruction to the rugged rovers of the American plains--heirs to an empire as much more vast in extent and resources as is the brightness of the diamond, after the skill expended by the lapidary, in dazzling brilliancy to the rude, unpolished stone before man's industry lends value to its existence.

At Strasburg the management decided to close temporarily this extraordinary tour and winter the company. Although in the proximity to points contemplated for a winter campaign (Southern France and the Riviera), this was deemed advisable on account of the first and only attack from envious humanity that the organization had encountered. This subject will be more fully referred to in another chapter, as it necessitated the manly but expensive voluntary procedure of taking the Indians to America, to meet face to face and deny the imputations of some "ten-cent" villagers, whom circumstances of petty political "charity," and "I-am-ism," and native buoyancy permit at times to float temporarily on the surface of a cosmopolite community, and to whose ravings a too credulous public and press give hearing.

The quaint little village of Benfield furnished an ancient nunnery and a castle with stables and a good range; here the little community of Americans spent the winter comfort

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Artistic Florence, practical Bologna, grand and stately Milan, and unique Verona were next added to the list. Verona's superb and well-preserved "Arena," excelling in superficial area the Colosseum and holding 45,000 people, was specially granted for the Wild West's use; and the home of Shakespeare's love-lorn heroine placed another picture in Red man's tour of the native land of his discoverer. The Indians were taken by "BUFFALO BILL" to picturesque architectural skill. They were immortalized by the camera in the Ducal Palace, St. Marc's Piazza, and in the strange street vehicle of the Adriatic's erstwhile pride--the gondola--contributing another interesting object lesson to the distant juvenile members of their tribe--to testify more fully to their puzzles senses the fact of strange sights and marvels whose existence is to be learned of in the breadth of knowledge necessitated by their future existence.

Moving via Innsbruck through the beautifully scenic Tyrol--the Bavarian capital, Munich, with its naturally artistic instincts, gave a grand reception to the beginning of a marvelously successful tour through German-land, which included Vienna (with an excursion on the "Blue Danube"), Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Madgeburg, Hanover, Brunswick, Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, along the Rhine past Bonn, Coblentz, "Fair Biegen on the Rhine" to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Strasburg. These historic cities--with all their

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wealth of legendary interest, art galleries, scientific conservatories, educative edifices, cathedrals, modern palaces, ancient ruins, army man[oe combined]uvrings, fortifications, commercial and varied manufacturing and agricultural industries, and the social, genial, friendly, quiet customs of its people--should form good instruction to the rugged rovers of the American plains--heirs to an empire as much more vast in extent and resources as is the brightness of the diamond, after the skill expended by the lapidary, in dazzling brilliancy to the rude, unpolished stone before man's industry lends value to its existence.

At Strasburg the management decided to close temporarily this extraordinary tour and winter the company. Although in the proximity to points contemplated for a winter campaign (Southern France and the Riviera), this was deemed advisable on account of the first and only attack from envious humanity that the organization had encountered. This subject will be more fully referred to in another chapter, as it necessitated the manly but expensive voluntary procedue of taking the Indians to America, to meet face to face and deny the imputations of some "ten-cent" villagers, whom circumstances of petty political "charity," and "I-am-ism," and native buoyancy permit at times to float temporarily on the surface of a cosmopolite community, and to whose ravings a too credulous public and press give hearing.

The quaint little village of Benfield furnished an ancient nunnery and a castle with stables and a good range; here the little community of Americans spent the winter comfort