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est attention, and the steward was one of the best nurses 

 I ever saw ; so that, save and except the confined nature 

 of my berth, and the additional difficulty of keeping my 

 sea legs on in a sea way, when I could not see where I 

 was going, I had no great reason for lamentation : icebergs 

 and whales had been left behind, or had got out of season, 

 therefore on deck there was nothing new. What I 

 lamented, of course, next to the loss of the ladies' society 

 on board, was not being able to see the first glimpse of 

 the coast of Ireland. We landed, however, at Liverpool 

 at dark, in the first week of December I think on the 

 5th of that month my friends piloting me down the 

 gangway into the tender, when on reaching the quay I 

 got into a fly, and shortly afterwards found myself in the 

 comfortable halls of Croxteth. 



The promise, then, with which I set out, and which 

 many gentlemen, who pretended to know, said that I could 

 not keep, was kept. In little over three months I had 

 crossed the Atlantic twice, had travelled by rail and 

 steamboat more than 1000 miles' beyond New York, had 

 travelled the desert for a month in my waggon, and had 

 hunted, killed, and brought back to England the bison, 

 or the largest game that haunts the Plains of the Far 

 West. 



I will now take this opportunity of referring to that 

 most useful little volume published by my friend Capt. 

 Marcy, of the United States Army, and entitled " The 

 Prairie Traveller." In that work it will be seen and no 

 one essaying a visit to the plains should be without it 

 that it is not advisable to attempt the prairies, or to sojourn 

 or hunt in the Indian grounds, unless associated with a 

 force of fifty men. Of this of course he is a better judge 

 than I can be, if experience is deemed to be the teacher ; 



