ABSTRACT
As on his former trip, he arranged to take with him only a small suite. But to his party was added James J. O'Kelly, the Irish-born7 correspondent of the New York Herald, whom its enterprising editor, James Gordon Bennett, had sent to Brazil some months before to write up the Emperor and his voyage to the United States. On the morning of March 26, 1876, they departed, in the English liner "Hevelius." Large throngs were at the dock to bid them farewell. "There was a complete absence of formality and pretentiousness," wrote O'Kelly. "It was not a ruler formally taking leave of the nation he governed; it was rather the parting of a well-beloved father from his family."8 Several vessels from the Brazilian fleet accompanied the "Hevelius" out of the harbor.
