There is little more to tell. Travelling leisurely in glorious weather through the garden-girt towns and smiling villages of the "Rouge-River" Valley, perhaps the most picturesque and fertile in the world, a day was passed at Shasta Springs, the summer resort of fashionable Californians, where the sun-baked traveller may rest awhile in a little oasis of coolness and gaiety, cascades and flowers, set in a desert of dark pines. A week with old friends in cosmopolitan, ever delightful San Francisco, a rapid and luxurious journey across the American continent, land on August 25, 1902, New York was reached, and the long land journey of 18,494 miles from Paris, which had taken us two-thirds of a year to accomplish, was at an end.
APPENDIX I
APPROXIMATE TABLE OF DISTANCES
PARIS TO NEW YORK
| EUROPE AND ASIA | |
| E. M. | |
| Paris to Moscow (rail) | 1,800 |
| Moscow to Irkutsk (rail) | 4,000 |
| Irkutsk to Yakutsk (employed 720 horses) | 2,000 |
| Yakutsk to Verkhoyansk (employed 80 horses and 240 reindeer) | 623 |
| Verkhoyansk to Sredni-Kolymsk (employed 620 deer) | 1,006 |
| Sredni-Kolymsk to Nijni-Kolymsk (employed 8 horses, 27 reindeer, 50 dogs). | 334 |
| Nijni-Kolymsk to Bering Straits (started with 64 dogs, arrived at Bering Straits with 9) | 1,500 |
| Total English miles: Europe and Asia | 11,263 |
| (Employing 808 horses, 887 reindeer, and 114 dogs.) | |
| AMERICA | |
| East Cape, Bering Straits to Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska | 60 |
| Cape Prince of Wales to Nome City | 140 |
| Nome City to St. Michael's | 120 |
| St. Michael's to Dawson City | 1,200 |
| Dawson City to White Horse Rapids | 450 |
| White Horse Rapids to Skagway | 110 |
| Skagway to Seattle | 1,041 |
| Seattle to San Francisco | 1,000 |
| San Francisco to New York | 3,110 |
| Total mileage: Paris to New York | 18,494 |