My Reason for Taking Part in the Civil War--The Dignity of Labor--The Firm Mattson & Webster--_Svenska Amerikanaren_, its Program and Reception--The State Emigration Bureau of Minnesota--Its Aim, Plan and Work. CHAPTER IX. Visit to Sweden in 1868-1869--The Object of my Journey--Experiences and Observations During the Same--Difference Between American and Swedish Customs--My Birth-place--Arrival and Visit There--Visit to Christianstad--Visit to Stockholm--The Swedish Parliament--My Return to America--Reflections on and Impressions of the Condition of the Bureaucracy of Sweden. CHAPTER X. The Importance of the Scandinavian Element--A Swede Elected Secretary of State in Minnesota--False Rumors of Indian Depredations--The Northern Pacific Railroad is Built--Trip to Philadelphia--The National Convention at Indianapolis--Delegation to Washington--A Swedish Colony in Mississippi Moved to Minnesota--The Second Voyage to Europe. CHAPTER XI. In Sweden Again--Reception at My Old Home--Visit to Northern Sweden--Field Maneuvers in Sweden--The Opening of Parliament--In Norway--Visit in Stockholm--Royal Palaces--The Göta Canal--A Trip to Finland and Russia--King Oscar II.--A Trip to Dalarne in the Winter. CHAPTER XII. Visit in Minnesota and Philadelphia--Conversation with Jay Cooke--The Crisis of 1873--Negotiations in Holland--Draining of a Lake in Skåne--Icelandic Colony in Manitoba--Return to America. CHAPTER XIII. Grasshopper Ravages in Minnesota--The Presidential Election--Chosen Presidential Elector--Minnesota _Stats Tidning_--_Svenska Tribunen_ in Chicago--Farm in Northwestern Minnesota--Journalistic Work. CHAPTER XIV. I am Appointed Consul-General to India--Assassination of Garfield--Departure for India--My Stay in Chicago and Washington--Paris and Versailles--Rome--Naples--Pompeii--From Naples to Alexandria--Interesting Acquaintances on the Voyage--The First Impressions in Egypt. CHAPTER XV. Alexandria and its Monuments--The Egyptian "Fellahs"--The Mohammedans and Their Religion--The Voyage Through the Suez Canal--The Red Sea--The Indian Ocean--The Arrival at Calcutta. CHAPTER XVI. India--Its People, Religion, Etc.--The Fertility of the Country--The Climate--The Dwellings--Punkah--Costumes--Calcutta--Dalhousie Square--Life in the Streets. CHAPTER XVII. The Promenades of the Fashionable World--Maidan--The Viceroy--British Dominions in India. CHAPTER XVIII. An Indian Fête--The Prince of Burdwan--Indian Luxury--The Riches and Romantic Life of an Indian Prince--Poverty and Riches. CHAPTER XIX. Allahabad--Sacred Places--Kumbh Mela--Pilgrimages--Bathing in the Ganges--Fakirs and Penitents--Sacred Rites--Superstitions. CHAPTER XX. Benares, the Holy City of the Hindoos--Its Temples and Worshipers--The Sacred Monkeys. CHAPTER XXI. Nimtoolaghat--Cremation in India--Parsee Funeral Rites. CHAPTER XXII.