As Nellie traveled from Suez to Yemen across the Arabian Sea aboard the Victoria, she developed an intense dislike of the English. Actually, as the daughter of an Irish immigrant, she had always disliked the English intensely, but traveling among them in the British Empire, she saw the “privilege of insensitivity” first-hand. The English could travel anywhere in the world, it seemed, and yet stay in English hotels, take English meals, and use English currency, without bothering with the local population. Nellie found herself of two minds about this: “As I traveled on and realized more than ever before how the English have stolen almost all, if not all, desirable seaports, I felt an increased respect for the level-headedness of the English government.” She understood completely the pride the English felt when they sang “God Save the Queen” at the end of each evening. This was in contrast to the disgust she felt for the men ruling the United States: “. . . a shamed feeling that there I was, a free-born American girl, the native of the grandest country on earth, forced to be silent because I could not in honesty speak proudly of the rulers of my land, unless I went back to those two kings of manhood, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.”