The Russians were full of good will and really anxious to please everybody, but the strange inattention of which I have already spoken was evident in many of the things they did and, more, in the things they omitted to do. For instance they omitted to attend to the important question of illuminations, so that their guests had to bring their own illuminations with them. The English vessels wore splendidly lit up with electric lights, while only one Russian vessel, the Dowager Empress's yacht Polar Star was illuminated and the coast was ornamented only by about a dozen tar barrels and by the letters N. and E. words Nicholas and Edward) formed of rows of gas jets on the roofs of the as-works, It might be said that there is no use for illumination in a land where at this time of the year there is ically no night, bat" surely the have spared their guests the humiliation of appearing to welcome themselves.
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