"Captain Boyton is sufficiently recuperated before Folkestone is
reached, to receive anew the homage which Englishmen are ever ready to
pay to heroic pluck and endurance. Dover honors him with a salute of
eleven guns as the Earnest glides by. Folkestone harbor is gained at
last. Our adieux paid to Captain Boyton, no one seems loth to land."
Paul received congratulatory telegrams from the Queen, the Prince of
Wales and President Grant. Dover gave the Captain a dejeuner.
Folkestone, or rather the South Eastern directors, entertained him at a
banquet on Saturday evening, when he felicitously thanked Captain Dane
and others for their generous services during his channel voyage.
After his successful attempt, which caused the wildest excitement over
all the world, he rested a few days before resuming work, under his
managers. Medals, flags, jewelry, addresses and presents of all kinds
poured in on him. The Humane Society at Boulogne voted him their massive
gold medal representing the First Order of French Life Saving.
All during the summer, Paul appeared in the different towns and watering
places in England, getting his regular pay of fifty guineas a day,
equal to $1,750 per week. In September his agent accepted of two week's
engagements for exhibitions in Berlin at Lake Weissensee.
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