The St. Gothard Tunnel--I Describe It for Harper’s Magazine-- Its Cost--A Great Scare in the Tunnel. 153 CHAPTER XIX. 1879. American Artists at Munich--I Meet Mark Twain--Take Him to an Artists’ Club--Conversations with Him--Beer Drinking-- He Reads the Original of “What I Know about the German Language”--We Entertain the Americans at Zurich--A Letter from General Sherman--Confederates More Popular than Union Men--Sherman Ready to Surrender 157 CHAPTER XX. 1879. A Trip Through the Black Forest--Stein on the Rhine--A Famous Castle--“All Blown Up”--Good Roads--Fox Hunting. 165 CHAPTER XXI. 1879. Bret Harte--Letters from Him--Visits Us--Stay at Bocken-- Conversations--Mrs. Senator Sherman--Evenings at Bocken-- We All Go to the Rigi--How We Got the “Prince’s” Rooms-- Harte Goes with Us to Obstalden in the Alps--Very Simple Life--A Strange Funeral--Harte Finds His Stories in a Village Inn--More Letters--We Visit the Moselle River-- Finer than the Rhine--A Wonderful Castle of the Middle Ages--All Furnished and Fresh as When New--The French Did Not Find It When They Were Demolishing German Castles--An Exquisite Gothic Church Five Hundred Years Old--Wonderful Roman Ruins at Treves--More Letters from Bret Harte--A Happy Man. 170 CHAPTER XXII. 1880-1881. A Little Stay by the Mediterranean--Am Offered a Position in China--An Article on the Swiss Rhine--Also One on My Experiences in the Rebel Army--Two Letters from General Sherman--Grant and the Presidency--Says the Bare Narrative of My Escape from Prison Would Be an Epic--Banquet at the Legation--I Write for the New York Tribune an Exposé of How Certain European Communities Sent Paupers to the United States--Am Violently Attacked for It by Many American Journals and Reprimanded by State Department-- Swiss Government Complains--Investigation Follows--I Am Justified--Letter from Sherman as to His Son Tom--Visit America--Secretary Blaine Compliments Me--The Press Changes Its Tone and New Laws Are Adopted as to Immigration in United States and Switzerland--Tribune Says Editorially, “Mr. Byers Deserves the Thanks of the American People”--A Little Visit to the Poet Longfellow, and the Alcotts; also to the Author of “America.” 189 CHAPTER XXIII. 1881. Elm and All Its People Destroyed by an Avalanche--A Foot Trip in Ireland--Fenians--Red Coats--Poverty--The Queen Hooted--Out of Jail and a Hero--Muckross Abbey by Moonlight--An Irish Funeral--A Duplicate Blarney Stone-- Letters from General Sherman--The Duke of Wellington--The Assassination of President Garfield. 205 CHAPTER XXIV. 1882-1883.