Our passage was even rougher and more trying on the whole than the outward passage had been, but we did not mind that; for were we not homeward bound?
I have now been at home about three weeks, and I am already beginning to doubt whether it is an actual fact that such a stay-at-home old fixture as I have always been, could, within the last four months, have travelled something like fourteen thousand miles by land and sea! I am inclined to regard that great land of my pilgrimage as altogether
"The land of vision; it would seem
A still, an everlasting dream!"
APPENDIX.
The following information is supplied by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.