CHAPTER XXXVI.
AUGUST 23, 1856--SEPTEMBER 15, 1858 Berlin .-- Baron von Humboldt .-- London, successful cable experiments with Whitehouse and Bright .-- Banquet at Albion Tavern .-- Flattering speech of W.F.Cooke .-- Returns to America .-- Troubles multiply .-- Letter to the Honorable John Y.Mason on political matters .-- Kendall urges severing of connection with cable company .-- Morse, nevertheless, decides to continue .-- Appointed electrician of company .-- Sails on U.S.S.

Niagara .-- Letter from Paris on the crinoline .-- Expedition sails from Liverpool .-- Queenstown harbor .-- Accident to his leg .-- Valencia .-- Laying of cable begun .-- Anxieties .-- Three successful days .-- Cable breaks .-- Failure .-- Returns to America .-- Retires from cable enterprise .-- Predicts in 1858 failure of apparently successful laying of cable .-- Sidney E.Morse .-- The Hare and the Tortoise .-- European testimonial: considered niggardly by Kendall .-- Decorations, medals, etc., from European nations .-- Letter of thanks to Count Walewski.