October 24 Thursday – Sam and group arrived in Cadiz. Meanwhile, the QC departed Gibraltar at 6 PM. Sam wrote from Cadiz to his mother and family about dodging quarantine and his hard journey to Seville. “…will arrive in New York ten days after this letter gets there” [MTL 2: 99].

He also wrote to Joe Goodman, relating the friction that had developed between Sam and some of the passengers, probably over a September 19 article of Sam’s in the New York Tribune. The article related the visit to the Czar and by comparison with Mrs. Fairbanks, painted the other ladies in a bad light, or so some of them thought. Sam confided in Joe:

“Between you and I, (I haven’t let it out yet, but am going to,) this pleasure party of ours is composed of the d—dest, rustiest, ignorant, vulgar, slimy, psalm-singing cattle that could be scraped up in seventeen States. They wanted Holy Land, and they got it” [MTL 2: 101-3].