The following day he was presented with an illumined address signed by many of the most prominent people in Dublin, also with an elaborately worked American flag and gold medal.

The address concluded with the following words: "The subscribers desire that Captain Boyton will regard this presentation as a reminiscence of his visit to Ireland and as a token of the high estimation in which they hold him as a fearless experimentalist in bringing under public notice the most valuable life saving apparatus that has yet appeared." Paul made many good friends during his stay in Dublin and visited almost every point of interest in that historic city.

He discovered a very original character in the car-driver who conveyed him to the theatre every evening.

Whenever he had a leisure hour always spent it driving around he quaint old city with the driver, Pat Mullen, who entertains him with his stories and witicisms.

While driving along the, Liffy one day Pat said: "Would ye loike a little devarsion, Captain?
If ye do, Oi'll take ye through Pill Lane; but ye must look out fur yure head, sur." Pill Lane he described as a street mostly inhabited by fish-women who displayed their stock in trade on a tray on the head of a barrel, These ladies, like their sisters in Billingsgate, London, bad a great reputation for their vigorous use of the English language and the choice epithets that they often hurled at the heads of passers by who did not purchase from them.