My mother died several years before him.

I began to feel lonely at Sangoa and I was anxious to visit America, of which my mother had so often told me.

So some months ago I reached San Francisco, since when I have been traveling over your country--my country, may I call it ?--and studying your modern civilization.

In New York I remained fully three months.

It is only about ten days since I returned to this coast." He stopped abruptly, as if he considered he had told enough.