CHAPTER XIX.

Riding Over the Battle—Field—Destruction of Bazeilles—Mistakes of the French—Marshal Bazaine —On to Paris—A Week in Meaux—Rheims—On the Picket-Line—Under Fire—A Surrender—At Versailles —General Burnside and Mr. Forbes in Paris —Brussels—Deciding to Visit Eastern Europe—Austria —Down the Danube—In Constantinople—The Ladies of the Harem—The Sultan—Turkish Soldiers —A Banquet—A Visit in Athens—King George of Greece—Victor—Emmanuel—Bedeviled with Cares of State—Deer Shooting—A Military Dinner—Return to Versailles—Germans Entering Paris—Criticism on the Franco-Prussian War—Conclusion