Introduction of the Christian Religion--Printing the Bible, Edict by Queen Ranavalona Against It--The New Religion "a Cloth of a Pattern She Did Not Like"--Asked the Missionaries, "Can You Make Soap?"--"Dark Days"--Persecutions and Executions for a Quarter of a Century--Examples of Christian Martyrs--Death of Queen Ranavalona--Permanent Establishment of the Christian Religion--Self-denial and Heroic Service of the Roman Catholics--Native Race Protection Committee--Forced Labor Abolished. CHAPTER XXIV 282 Cuba and the Philippines--Their Acquisition Under the Plea of Relief From Spanish Misrule--Aguinaldo, Leader of the Filipinos--The Fidelity and Bravery of the American Negro in the Spanish War--Attestation by Many Witnesses--Industrial Education--Othello's Occupation Gone When Polls are Closed. CHAPTER XXV 298 Opposition Possibly Beneficent--President McKinley's Order for Enlistment of Colored Soldiers--General Grosvenor's Tribute--Fifteen Thousand in the Spanish War--U. S. Supreme Court vs. The Negro--The Basis of Congressional Representation. CHAPTER XXVI 306 Departure from Madagascar--Memories--Governor General's Farewell Letter--Madagascar Branch of the Smithsonian Institute--Wild Animals, a Consul's Burden--Descriptive Letter to State Department. CHAPTER XXVII 312 Leave-taking, its Jollity and Sadness--Arrival at Camp Aden, Arabia--An Elysium for the Toper--Whisky Was Plenty, But the Water Was Out--Pleasant Visit to U. S. Consul Cunningham, of Knoxville, Tenn.--Arrival at Suez--My Visit to the U. S. Cruiser "New York"--The Urbanity of Captain Rogers--Suez Canal--Port Said--"Mal de Mer"--Marseilles to Paris--Across the English Channel to London. CHAPTER XXVIII 320 My First Visit to the Land of Wilberforce and Clarkson--Excursion on the Thames--Bank of England--Visited Towers of London--Beauchamp Tower With Its Sad Inscriptions--Arrival at New York--National Negro Business Men's League Convention at Chicago--Booker T. Washington President--Many Talented Business Men in Attendance. CHAPTER XXIX 327 Visit to President McKinley at Canton, Ohio--His Assassination at Buffalo--The Assassin Struck Down by James Parker--President's Death--The Nation in Tears--A Christian Statesman--A Lover of Justice--Crucial Epochs of Our Country's History, the Negro at the Fore. CHAPTER XXX 336 President Roosevelt--His Imperial Honesty--Ex-Governor Jones, of Alabama--Advance of Justice in Our Country--Status a Half-Century Ago--Theodore Parker's Arraignment--Eulogy by Ralph Waldo Emerson. CHAPTER XXXI 343