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and telegraphed ahead to Laramie for more. The day was comfortably 

 warm. No mishaps occurred except the iteating-up of the car the night 

 before. 



On Sunday, October 5, at 1 p. in., we reached Omaha, crossed the Mis- 

 souri Eiver, and left Council Bluffs at 3 p. m., on the Chicago, Burling- 

 ton and Quincy Bailroad. That night was quite cool. 



On Monday, October C, at 3 p. in., we reached Chicago. The last 

 night was cold and favorable for the eggs. Left Chicago on the Michi- 

 gan Central at 5.15 p. m., with the eggs apparently in good order. Up 

 to this time I had kept constantly replenishing the crates with ice. 



On Tuesday morning, October 7, at 4 o'clock, we entered Cauada on 

 the Great Western Bailroad, aud the Union Pacific express-car, which 

 still accompanied the train, was sealed up by the custom-house officers, 

 so that I could not enter it till we left Suspension Bridge that afternoon 

 at 2 o'clock. The crates had been well provided with ice, however, the 

 night was frosty, and the day was cool, so I did not feel uneasy about 

 the eggs. The car which contained them had a large amount of gold 

 and silver coin and bullion in it, and the messengers had instructions 

 to keep every one out of the car. Their instructions are so imperative 

 in this particular that they will not even listen to any explanations. I 

 had fortunately provided myself with a letter from Mr. Tracy, of Sac- 

 ramento, one of the head managers of Wells & Fargo's express, aud by 

 means of it managed to get aboard the express-car and attend to the 

 crates. Without the letter, there would have been no chance whatever 

 of getting at the eggs. Even with such a letter a man insisting on en- 

 tering the car runs a risk of being injured by the messenger's revolver. 

 We arrived at Rochester about 5 p. m., Tuesday, October 7. Here I 

 left the three boxes (a crate and a half) for Seth Green. 



Tuesday night, at 2 a. m., the train reached Albauy with the crates 

 in good order. I went to bed supposing that the express-car would go 

 on with the train to Boston, but in point of fact it is the custom to 

 leave it at Albauy. 



On Wednesday morning, October 8, at about 8 o'clock, the train arrived 

 at Boston. To my great surprise and dismay I could not find the salmon- 

 eggs for Mr. Atkins and Mr. Brackett, and now learned for the first time 

 that they had been left with the car at Albany. I was the more chagrined 

 at this because I had been so very careful to keep with them. I might 

 almost say I had hardly let them go out of my sight, and now at the 

 end of this long and exceedingly anxious journey, just as I thought my 

 care had been rewarded with success and was at an end, there came this 

 disappointment and new anxiety. I could not get track of these eggs 

 again or learn for some time what delayed them; and it was three days 

 before Mr. Brackett got his and four days before Mr. Atkins received 

 his. It was very provoking, when time was so precious, to reflect that 

 the eggs were one-half as long going from Albany to Winchester, two 

 hundred miles, as from our camp to Albany, three thousand two hundred 

 miles. As the weather was very warm during these intervening days, 



