omfortable. The entire palace contains five
hundred and eighty-three rooms.

The whole forenoon was employed in visiting the palace, and the
students went on board the vessels to dinner. As the day was pleasant,
a boat excursion to Drottningholm was planned, and the fourteen boats
of the squadron were soon in line. A pilot was in the commodore's
barge, to indicate the course. Passing under the North Bridge, the
excursion entered the waters of the Maeler Lake. A pull of two hours
among beautiful islands, covered with the fresh green of spring,
through narrow and romantic passages, brought them to their
destination. In some places, within five miles of Stockholm, the
scene was so quiet, and nature so primitive, that the excursionists
could have believed they were hundreds of miles from the homes of
civilization. Two or three of the islands had a house or two upon
them; but generally they seemed to be unimproved. The boats varied
their order at the command of Commodore Cumberland, and when there
were any spectators, nothing could exceed their astonishment at the
display.

At Drottningholm, or Queen's Island, there is a fine palace, built by
the widow of Charles X., and afterwards improved and embellished by
the kings of Sweden. Attached to it is a beautiful garden, adorned
with fountains and statues. The party went through the palace, which
contains a great many historical paintings, and some rooms fitted up
in Chinese style. As the students were about to embark, a char-a-banc,
a kind of open omnibus, drawn by four horses, drove up to the palace,
and a plainly-dressed lady alighted. She stood on the portico, looking
at the students; and the pilot said she was the Queen Dowager, wife of
Oscar I. Of course the boys looked at her with quite as much interest
as she regarded them. The commodore called for three cheers for the
royal lady, who was the daughter of Eugene Beauharnais, and
granddaughter of the Empress Josephine. She waved her handkerchief in
return for the salute, and the students were soon pulling down the
lake towards Stockholm.

The next forenoon was devoted to the Royal Museum, which has been
recently erected. It contains a vast quantity of Swedish antiquities
and curiosities, with illustrations of national manners and customs.
It contains specimens of the various implements used in the ages of
wood, stone, bronze, and iron, collections of coins and medals, armor,
engravings, sculptures, and paintings, inclu