in the service, and
as Mrs. Kendall, Mrs. Shuffles, and many of the ship's company were
good singers, the vocal music was better than usual.

On Monday morning commenced the serious business of sight-seeing in
Stockholm. The royal palace, one of the largest and finest in Europe,
and the most prominent building in the city, was the first place to be
visited. It is four hundred and eighteen feet long, by three hundred
and ninety-one wide, with a large court-yard in the middle, from which
are the principal entrances. The lower story is of granite; the rest
of brick, covered with stucco. The students walked through the vast
number of apartments it contains; through red chambers, green
chambers, blue chambers, and yellow chambers, as they are designated,
through the royal chapel, which is as large as a good-sized church,
and through the throne-room, where the king opens the sessions of the
Diet. Several were devoted to the Swedish orders of knighthood. The
ceilings and walls of the state apartments are beautifully adorned
with allegorical and mythological paintings.

The chamber of Bernadotte, or Charles John, remains just as it was
during his last sickness. On the bed lies his military cloak, which
he wore in his great campaigns. His cane, the gift of Charles XIII.,
stands in the room. The walls are covered with green silk, and adorned
with portraits of the royal family. The apartments actually occupied
by the present king were found to be far inferior in elegance to many
republican rooms. His chamber has a pine floor, with no carpet; but
it looked more home-like than the great barn-like state-rooms. In a
series of small and rather low apartments are several collections of
curious and antique articles, such as a collection of arms, including
a pair of pistols presented to the king by President Lincoln; and of
pipes, containing every variety in use, in the smoking-room. The
king's library looks like business, for its volumes seemed to be for
use rather than ornament. The billiard-room is quite cosy, and his
chamber contains photographs of various royal personages, as the
Prince of Wales, the Queen of England, and others, which look as
though the king had friends, and valued them like common people. His
majesty paints very well for a king, and the red cabinet contains
pictures by him, and by Oscar I. The queen's apartments, as well as
the king's, seemed to the boys like a mockery of royalty, for they
were quite plain and c