Professor Zorn of the Law Faculty in the University of Bonn, scientific delegate to the Peace Congress.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 38: Persia was represented at the First Peace Conference at The Hague by Aide-de-camp General Mirza Rhiza Khan (Arfa-ud-Dovleh), ambassador at St. Petersburg and Stockholm, and Mirza Samad Khan (Montazis-Sultanah), counselor of legation.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 39: For an account of the outcome of this critical situation see Andrew D. White’s “Autobiography.” Footnote 40: Baron von Bildt, ambassador from Sweden and Norway to the court of Italy. He was the only delegate plenipotentiary from Scandinavia; but Sweden and Norway each sent two technical delegates.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 41: These were M. Georges Bihourd, ambassador at The Hague, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, and three technical delegates—General Mounier, Rear Admiral Péphau, and Professor Louis Renault of the Law Faculty and legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 42: Sir John A. Fisher, Vice Admiral, technical delegate from Great Britain.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 43: Dr. Voïslaf Velkovitch, professor of law in the University of Belgrade; the other representatives of Servia were Miyatovitch, envoy at London and The Hague, and Colonel Maschin, envoy at Cetinje.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 44: There are a hundred cents to a dollar and a hundred years to a century. Ninety-nine cents do not make a dollar; nor does the year 1899 end the century.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 45: Brennus, leader of the Senonian Gauls, who took Rome in 390 B.C. Being offered a thousand pounds of gold as a ransom for the Capitol, he took it and went home.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 46: A reference to Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, who always helps Captain Grant’s children at the right moment, and whom we had jestingly chosen for our guardian saint. Footnote 47: Richard Chimani, physician to the General Staff, a friend of long standing who owned a place near us. Footnote 48: Authorized German translation, under the title _Seemannslaufbahn_, by A. H. Fried. Berlin, Boll & Pickardt. Footnote 49: See pp. 405 ff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.