The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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CHAPTER VII

SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA

  "Tis a good land to fall in with men, and a pleasant land to see."

        --(_Words spoken by Hendrik Hudson when he first brought his
           ship through the Narrows and saw the Bay of New York_.)


Stevenson's second landing in New York was a great contrast to his
first. The "Amateur Emigrant" had no one to bid him welcome and Godspeed
but a West Street tavern-keeper, and now when Mr. Will Low, his old
friend of Fontainebleau days, hastened to the dock to welcome him on the
_Ludgate Hill_, he found the author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" already
surrounded by reporters.